For colleges & universities
Career services for every student. Not just the ones who show up.
Give every student personalized, 24/7 career guidance while giving your team the intelligence to engage earlier, intervene smarter and improve career outcomes.
Works with the systems you already have, including your SIS and Handshake.
Built for your existing ecosystem
Day One
Start career development early.
Discover
Understand strengths, interests and possibilities.
Build
Develop career-ready competencies.
Experience
Turn learning into real-world experience.
Prepare
Translate skills into readiness.
Launch
Turn readiness into career outcomes.
Give every student the tools to keep moving forward, while giving your team the insight to know who needs help, when to step in, and where they can make the biggest impact.
Beyond office hours
Career services works. Now make it reach everyone.
Your career team can make a meaningful difference in a student's journey. The challenge is reaching every student early enough and often enough to make that difference. CareerLight brings career development into the student's everyday experience.
~60%
of graduating students used their career center at some point during college.
Source: NACE 2024 Student Survey
What about everyone else?
Career services for every student.
Extend personalized career guidance beyond appointments, workshops and office hours.
The student experience
Something students come back to, not another institutional portal.
Personalized journey
Career development built around each student’s strengths, goals and direction.
24/7 career guidance
Support students whenever questions, decisions and opportunities arise.
Goals and visible progress
Give students a clear sense of where they’re going and what comes next.
Engaging experiences
Assessments, quizzes, Lights, rewards and timely nudges keep students moving.
Competency development
Help students understand what they’re building and what employers will expect.
Career direction from Day One
Connect today’s education to tomorrow’s possibilities.
Your career center has office hours. CareerLight doesn't.
Personalized career guidance, exploration and next steps available to every student, 24/7.
And your team stays in the loop
Student activity becomes insight your career team can use.
Understand student progress, identify who may need support, and engage, support and intervene more effectively.
One system, two sides
More support for them. More visibility for you.
For students
A path that always has a next step.
Career discovery, skills, goals and real-world career steps, all connected in one journey that keeps students moving forward.
For career teams
See who's moving. Know who needs you.
See who's progressing, who's getting stuck, and where your team can make the biggest difference.
Advisor action, student experience
You assign a step. It shows up in their pocket.
Create and assign the next step based on what each student needs.
Students get a clear next move, right inside their CareerLight journey.
Actionable intelligence
Know who needs help. Know why. Know what to do next.
CareerLight turns student activity into actionable intelligence, helping your team identify where students are getting stuck, prioritize who needs attention, and take action before students fall behind.
Cohort Insights
24 students · City College · Spring 2026
- MEMarta EdwardsSenior · MarketingEngagement down 38% · no resume on file
- CHCourtney HenryJunior · Computer ScienceCareer direction unclear · stalled at Develop
- AMArlene McCoyFreshman · BiologyMissed 3 journey steps · low confidence
- DLDevon LaneSophomore · Trades & ElectricalInactive 21 days
- Haven't confirmed a career direction42%
- Haven't completed career prep milestones31%
- Engagement declining month over month24%
- Stalled at the Develop stage18%
Stu recommends: career direction is the biggest opportunity in this cohort. 42% of students have not committed to a path, which is upstream of the stalled resumes and declining engagement. Send the Career Direction activity to these 10 students and notify their advisors for follow up.
Make more of what you already have
Your systems have the data. CareerLight makes it actionable.
Your institution has already invested in systems that manage academics, opportunities and student success. CareerLight is designed to work alongside that ecosystem, combining those signals with a continuous understanding of each student's goals, competencies, career direction and engagement to help your team see more and act sooner.
Signals you already have
Your SIS
- Academic progress
- Enrollment
- Student success signals
Career platforms
- Handshake
- Opportunities
- Applications
- Career activity
CareerLight Student App
- Goals
- Competencies
- Career direction
- Engagement
- Journey progress
CareerLight Intelligence Dashboard
Competency Models + Workforce Data + AI
Questions your team can act on
A more complete picture of every student. A more powerful career services team.
CareerLight helps your team move from waiting for students to ask for help to understanding who needs attention, why they need it and where your team can make the greatest impact.
Handshake connects students to opportunity. CareerLight helps students become ready for it.
CareerLight complements the platforms your career team already uses by adding continuous student engagement, competency development and actionable intelligence across the student journey.
10X your career services
See more. Reach more. Do more.
Reach more students
Extend personalized career guidance beyond appointments, workshops and office hours.
Intervene earlier
Surface disengagement, unclear career direction, competency gaps and stalled progress while there is still time to act.
Prove your impact
Connect career-service actions to student engagement, progress, readiness and outcomes.
10X doesn't mean replacing your career team or your technology. It means making everything you already have more powerful.
Staying connected
25%
of bachelor's-degree students considered stopping out within the previous six months.
Source: Gallup-Lumina Foundation, State of Higher Education 2025
Students are more likely to stay on course when they can see where it leads.
Students leave college for many reasons. CareerLight focuses on one institutions can directly influence: helping students understand where they're going, what they're building and why the journey matters.
One continuous path
- Coursework
- Skills
- Career direction
- Experience
- Opportunity
Make the future visible.
Measurable impact
See the impact your team is making.
Connect the actions your team takes to the students they move forward and the outcomes that follow.
The future of hiring
When everyone can apply to everything, being prepared matters more.
More applications per job
28 applications per job in 2021 → 95 in 2025 among Greenhouse customers.
Applying more. Hearing back less.
37% of job seekers told LinkedIn they're applying to more jobs than ever but hearing back less.
Skills matter.
93% of talent acquisition professionals say accurately assessing candidate skills is crucial to improving quality of hire.
More applications aren't the answer. Better-prepared candidates are.
The goal isn't for AI to become better at applying for jobs. The goal is for students to become better at getting them.
Sources
- 1. Greenhouse — applications per job, 2021–2025.
- 2. LinkedIn — job seeker application and response survey.
- 3. LinkedIn — talent acquisition professionals on skills assessment.
We believe in AI. We just believe it should make students better.
Intelligence infrastructure
More than AI. Intelligence grounded in what employers actually need.
Proven competency frameworks and trusted U.S. workforce data, combined into intelligence about what a student can do and what their career requires.
Proven competency frameworks
- Skills
- Knowledge
- Abilities
- Work styles
Workforce + occupational data
- Occupations
- Requirements
- Training
- Labor market
CareerLight Intelligence
Structured understanding of what a student can do and what their career requires.
- Prompt
- Answer
Stops here
- Understand
- Assess
- Guide
- Develop
- Track
- Adapt
Continuously adapts
AI that knows the student. Not just the prompt.
Every assessment, goal, completed step and interaction adds context that personalizes each student's guidance over time.
- Goals
- Skills
- Assessments
- Experiences
- Progress
- Interactions
A continuously evolving understanding of each student.
Not AI that knows careers. AI that knows the student.
Built for careers, not applications
Applications get submitted. Careers get built.
CareerLight uses AI to help students build the skills, direction and confidence to navigate their careers, not simply automate the application process.
- Apply
- Apply
- Apply
- Hope
- Understand
- Develop
- Prepare
- Compete
Getting the application out is easy. Getting the student ready is the work.
Give every student career support from Day One.
Extend your impact. Strengthen student success. Build better employment outcomes.