CareerLight
10X your career services

10X Career Services

10 ways to give every student more support and every advisor more impact.

CareerLight combines 24/7 personalized career guidance, student engagement, advisor intelligence and actionable data into one connected experience built for the entire journey from enrollment to employment.

For career colleges, trade and technical schools and allied health programs

01 / 10Always on

Put Career Services in Every Student's Pocket.

Career support shouldn't depend on whether a student books an appointment. CareerLight gives every student personalized support whenever they need it.

CareerLight student app showing a personalized career journey: Skills & Strength, Career Direction, Work Experience and Set your goals connected along a path, with a newly assigned step and a Lights balance.
  1. 8:15 AMBefore class

    What should I work on this week?

    Your resume is one step from ready. Fifteen minutes gets it done.

  2. 1:20 PMBetween classes

    Is patient care the right path for me?

    Your strengths point that way. Try the Career Direction step next.

  3. 10:47 PMCareer question

    I have an interview Thursday and I am nervous.

    Let us practice. I will ask you three questions they are likely to open with.

  4. Same day. No appointment.

Your career center has office hours. CareerLight doesn't.

Personalized career guidance, support and next steps available to every student, 24/7.

50.5%
of surveyed four-year undergraduates had not visited their career center at any point during the year. Career school students were not the population measured.NACE 2024 Student Survey
02 / 10Engagement

Don't give students another portal. Give them a reason to come back.

CareerLight turns career development into an experience students can actually engage with.

WorkPersona quizQUESTION 4 OF 6

When a shift gets stressful, what do you rely on most?

  • Staying calm and steady
  • Talking it through with the team
  • Getting organized
Lights
32+50

Earned for finishing the assessment

Career meter

52% READY

Next step unlocked

Build Your Resume

What students get

  • Journey Steps
  • Lights
  • Career Meter
  • WorkPersona Quiz
  • Quick assessments
  • Goals
  • Challenges
  • Progress
  • Achievements

Make career development something students actually want to participate in.

NACE points to badging, career passports and structured competency milestones as ways institutions make career readiness visible and worth pursuing for students.NACE, career readiness and competency practices
03 / 10Personalized journeys

Every student knows what comes next.

CareerLight turns career development into a personalized sequence of achievable next steps instead of a library of resources students have to navigate alone.

  1. Discover
    • WorkPersona quiz

      CareerLight

    • Career Direction

      CareerLight

    • Program orientation

      Institution

  2. Develop
    • Skills and strengths

      CareerLight

    • Clinical hours log

      Institution

    • Set your goals

      CareerLight

  3. Prepare
    • Build Your Resume

      Advisor

    • Interview practice

      CareerLight

    • Attend resume workshop

      Advisor

  4. Employ
    • Employer introduction

      Advisor

    • Licensure checklist

      Institution

    • Offer review

      CareerLight

Recommended by CareerLight · Assigned by an advisor · Configured by the institution

CareerLight student app notification reading “New step added” with a message from advisor John Block asking the student to complete an assigned step.

What the student experiences

A step arrives with the advisor's name on it. The student completes it, progress increases, Lights are earned, and CareerLight determines what comes next.

One platform

Nursing

Licensure, clinical readiness, patient communication

HVAC

Certifications, field safety, employer apprenticeships

Electrical

Code knowledge, hours tracking, union pathways

Cosmetology

State board prep, portfolio, chair rental economics

Different programs should not receive the same career development experience. Two students inside the same program may not receive the same journey either.

Personalized for the student. Configured for your institution.

04 / 10Career intelligence

The more CareerLight knows, the better it can guide.

CareerLight doesn't treat every student interaction like a new conversation. It builds an evolving understanding of each student's skills, goals, interests, progress and engagement, then uses that context to personalize what comes next.

The student

  1. Completes a quiz
  2. Answers an assessment
  3. Sets a career goal
  4. Completes a Journey Step
  5. Asks the AI mentor a question
  6. Builds a skill
  7. Changes career direction
  8. Completes interview preparation
  9. Misses a milestone
  10. Stops engaging

What CareerLight understands

  • Skills
  • Interests
  • Goals
  • Progress
  • Readiness
  • Engagement

Context carries forward. The next interaction starts from everything before it, not from a blank conversation.

Proven career frameworks

  • Competency models
  • Career readiness frameworks
  • Skills frameworks

U.S. workforce intelligence

  • O*NET occupational data
  • Skills, knowledge, abilities
  • Work styles
  • Education and training
  • Occupational requirements

Your institution

  • Programs
  • Pathways
  • Resources
  • Priorities
  • Career services model

CareerLight intelligence

Student activity, proven frameworks, workforce data and your institution's programs combine into one evolving understanding of every student.

For the student

Guidance gets more relevant.

  • Personalized next steps
  • Relevant career guidance
  • Recommended Journey Steps
  • Skills to develop
  • Career preparation
  • Timely nudges
  • 24/7 AI mentorship
CareerLight student app showing a personalized career journey: Skills & Strength, Career Direction, Work Experience and Set your goals connected along a path, with a newly assigned step and a Lights balance.

For the advisor

Every interaction becomes insight.

  • Engagement signals
  • Journey progress
  • Career direction
  • Readiness
  • Completed milestones
  • Missed milestones
  • Changes in behavior
  • Students needing attention
  • Recommended interventions

Attention needed

Jordan's engagement has declined and two Journey Steps are overdue.

Recommended action: Check in with Jordan.

View StudentSend Message
CareerLight cohort insights showing that 42% of students have not confirmed a career goal, top student challenges, career interest distribution and an AI-written cohort read recommending where to intervene.
  1. Student interacts
  2. CareerLight learns
  3. Guidance gets more personalized
  4. Advisors get smarter signals
  5. Student gets better support
  6. And back to the start

Every interaction makes the system more useful for the student and more actionable for the advisor.

CareerLight doesn't just support students 24/7. It helps your team understand what's happening between advisor meetings.

General AI

Knows what the student asks.

CareerLight

Understands the student's career journey.

  • Skills
  • Goals
  • Assessments
  • Journey progress
  • Engagement
  • Career readiness
  • Institutional context

Not just AI that answers. Intelligence that learns, guides and informs.

Occupational requirements, skills, knowledge, abilities and work styles are drawn from O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupational database.O*NET, U.S. Department of Labor / Employment and Training Administration
05 / 10Reach

Don't wait for students to come to you.

CareerLight lets your team reach directly into the student journey at the moment support matters.

Cohort insights

37 students haven't completed Interview Preparation

Cohort selected

  • Send Message
  • Push Notification
  • Assign Journey Step
  • Send Assessment
  • Send Survey
  • Share Resource
  • Celebrate Milestone
Send nudge

CareerLight

You're one step away from being interview ready.

Opens directly to

Interview Preparation

Your dashboard shouldn't just show you students. It should let you move them forward.

The advisor is not simply observing the CareerLight experience. They can become part of it.

06 / 10Early signals

See disengagement before it becomes disconnection.

CareerLight creates continuous signals around student activity, progress and career engagement so your team can see when momentum starts changing.

Student activity and progressMonitoring
  1. Activity high
  2. Journey Step missed
  3. Second milestone missed
  4. Engagement declining
  5. Attention needed
  6. Advisor intervenes
  7. Student re-engages

Intervene while there is still time to make a difference.

Gallup research on college graduates has linked mentorship and support during school to stronger long-term engagement at work. The relationship is between support and outcomes, not a guarantee of either.Gallup-Purdue Index

Attention needed

Jordan's engagement has declined and two Journey Steps are overdue.

Recommended action: Check in with Jordan.

View StudentSend Message
07 / 10Actionable intelligence

Know who needs help. Know why. Know what to do next.

CareerLight is continuously learning from student activity. This is what your team can actually do with it.

CareerLight cohort insights showing that 42% of students have not confirmed a career goal, top student challenges, career interest distribution and an AI-written cohort read recommending where to intervene.
Who needs attention

42% of the cohort has not confirmed a career goal.

CareerLight identifies the specific students behind the number.

Why

Career direction is unresolved, so later steps have nothing to aim at.

Journey progress stalls at the Discover stage.

What to do next

Send the Career Direction assessment to the affected students.

Or assign a Journey Step, send a targeted message, or schedule outreach.

More data is not the answer. Knowing what to do with it is.

08 / 10Better candidates

When everyone can apply to everything, being prepared matters more than applying more.

CareerLight uses AI to increase student capability, not to remove students from their own career development.

Application automation
  1. Apply
  2. Apply
  3. Apply
  4. Hope

More volume, same candidate.

CareerLight
  1. Understand
  2. Develop
  3. Prepare
  4. Compete
  5. Employ

A stronger candidate at the end of it.

Automate the task.
Develop the person.

Employers consistently rank competencies such as problem solving, teamwork and communication among the most important attributes they look for in candidates.NACE Job Outlook, employer survey

The goal is not for AI to become better at applying for jobs. The goal is for students to become better at getting them.

09 / 10Connected by design

Make the systems you already paid for more valuable.

CareerLight is not another rip-and-replace technology project. It brings what your institution already knows together with what CareerLight learns.

Your SIS
  • Student information
  • Program
  • Enrollment
Your career systems
  • Career activity
  • Opportunities
CareerLight
  • Engagement
  • Journey progress
  • Career readiness
One actionable view of the student
WhoWhyAction

Built to connect with the systems your institution already uses.

Your systems have the data. CareerLight helps turn it into action.

  • Keep your SIS.
  • Keep your career platform.
  • Make the ecosystem smarter.
10 / 10The flywheel

Turn career success into institutional growth.

Students do not enroll simply to attend classes. They enroll because they believe education will move them toward a better career. CareerLight keeps that outcome connected to the student experience from Day One.

  1. 1EnrollStudents arrive with a career in mind
  2. 2EngageCareer work starts on Day One
  3. 3DevelopSkills, strengths and direction take shape
  4. 4PrepareReadiness milestones get completed
  5. 5EmployStudents move into work that fits
  6. 6Prove outcomesCareer results become visible evidence
  7. 7AttractThat evidence becomes your career story

Attract feeds back into enroll

Today's career outcomes become tomorrow's enrollment story.

Help prospective students see the connection between your programs, the skills they will build and the careers they are working toward.

10X career services

Don't replace your career services team. 10X their impact.

Give every student more support. Give every advisor more reach. Give your institution more intelligence.

  • More students supported
  • More advisors empowered
  • More actionable intelligence
  • Better-prepared candidates