Your student's information is safe with us
What we never do
- We will never sell your student's information.
- We never show a student's information to other students or the public.
Career-PathGPS is a free career explorer for high school and college students. In about 30 minutes, students answer questions about their interests, personality, reasoning and what they want from a job. They then see careers that fit them, what those careers pay, the education and training they need, and the college majors that lead there.
What we store about a student
- Account: email address, first name, birth year, whether they're in high school or college, and a username and password. Passwords are stored only in a protected (hashed) form that no one can read.
- Quiz answers and results, the careers and education & training they love, and any private notes the student writes on careers they love, so they can come back later.
- The location they enter, if they choose to, to show local pay and nearby schools.
- Their recent questions to the AI career counselor and its answers, if they use the chat.
- Activity on the site, such as pages opened and sections finished, and feedback they choose to give.
If a student starts signing up but doesn't finish, we keep only their email address. The full details are in our privacy policy.
Who else sees it
- If a student uses the counselor chat, the AI service we use receives their quiz scores, school level, the location they entered, their top career matches and the questions they type. It never receives their name or email address. The explanations of careers on their results are written about the careers alone, with nothing about any student.
- To look up local pay and nearby schools, the location the student enters is sent to the U.S. Department of Labor's career information service (named at the bottom of this page).
- Sign-up and sign-in links are sent through our email service.
- Career and education & training pages, both the public ones and the ones inside students' accounts, can show sponsored listings from schools, training programs and employers, labeled "Sponsored by" and the sponsor's name. They're chosen by the career or program on the page, never by anything about the student, they never appear in a student's list of career matches, and sponsors never receive information about students. Some listings have a contact email: a student who chooses to write to it sends that sponsor their message and email address from their own email app, as with any email. Career-PathGPS doesn't see or keep it.
Students under 14 can't register
Career-PathGPS is for students 14 and older. Students enter their birth year when they sign up, and whether they've had their birthday yet this year when that matters. If they're under 14, the account is deleted right away, along with the email address.
For guidance counselors
The quiz is a starting point for conversations, not an official test. It includes an interest survey from the U.S. Department of Labor, and pay, outlook and training data come from government sources. Students can print a summary of the careers they love to bring to a meeting with you.
Anyone can browse all careers and all education and training without an account.