CareerLight
10X your career services

10X your career services

10X your reach.
Not your headcount.

Give every student personalized career guidance while giving your team the intelligence to know who needs help, when to step in and where they can make the greatest impact.

Career services+ CareerLight
The same team
  • More students
  • More signals
  • More action
  • More impact

The force multiplier

Your team is already doing the work. CareerLight helps it reach further.

Career professionals create meaningful impact when they connect with students. The challenge is doing that early, often and personally across an entire institution.

CareerLight extends your team's reach by putting personalized career guidance in every student's pocket and turning student activity into actionable intelligence for the people supporting them.

Career services for every student. Not just the ones who show up.

01 / 10Reach more students

Career services shouldn't depend on who walks through the door.

Extend personalized career development beyond appointments, workshops and office hours with an experience students can access wherever they are, whenever they need it.

Career services+ CareerLight

~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.

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

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

02 / 10Create continuous engagement

Turn career development into something students actually come back to.

CareerLight turns career development into a personalized journey with goals, assessments, progress, Journey Steps, career exploration, nudges and rewards that keep students moving forward.

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.

What students move through

  • Journey Steps
  • Goals
  • Progress
  • Lights
  • Assessments
  • Career exploration
  • Skills
  • Next steps

Something students come back to. Not another institutional portal.

03 / 10Personalize at scale

One career center. Thousands of different journeys.

Every student brings different goals, strengths, experiences, interests and career direction. CareerLight continuously builds context around each student so guidance becomes more relevant as their journey evolves.

  • Goals
  • Skills
  • Assessments
  • Experiences
  • Interactions
  • Progress
  • Career direction
Same start

Every student begins from the same place. CareerLight builds context around each one, so no two journeys stay identical for long.

One institution. Thousands of personalized career journeys.

04 / 10Build career readiness from day one

Make career readiness a journey. Not a senior-year event.

Help students understand the competencies they're developing, connect learning and experiences to career direction, identify areas for growth and keep building toward the workforce throughout college.

  1. Day One

    Start career development early.

  2. Discover

    Understand strengths, interests and possibilities.

  3. Build

    Develop career-ready competencies.

  4. Experience

    Turn learning into real-world experience.

  5. Prepare

    Translate skills into readiness.

  6. Launch

    Turn readiness into career outcomes.

Competencies developing along the way

  • Career & Self-Development
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Leadership
  • Professionalism
  • Teamwork
  • Technology
  • Equity & Inclusion

Career readiness shouldn't begin when the job search does.

83%+
of four-year institutions are implementing career-readiness competencies.NACE Career Services Benchmarks Quick Poll, 2025
05 / 10AI that knows the student

Not AI that knows careers. AI that knows the student.

Generic AI starts with a prompt. CareerLight starts with an evolving understanding of the student's goals, skills, strengths, assessments, experiences, career direction, engagement and progress — then combines that context with proven competency frameworks and trusted workforce and occupational data to guide what comes next.

Generic AI
  1. Prompt
  2. Answer

Stops here

CareerLight
  1. Understand
  2. Assess
  3. Guide
  4. Develop
  5. Track
  6. Adapt

Continuously adapts

One evolving understanding of each student

  • Goals
  • Skills
  • Assessments
  • Experiences
  • Progress
  • Interactions

A continuously evolving understanding of each student.

Grounded in trusted frameworks and data

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.

Career guidance gets better when the technology actually knows who it's guiding.

Occupational requirements, skills, knowledge and abilities 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
06 / 10See who needs you

Don't wait for students to raise their hands.

CareerLight turns student engagement, progress and career-development activity into signals your team can use to understand where attention may be needed.

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
CareerLight advisor dashboard home. A “Ready for opportunity” list shows students who are internship-ready with employer deadlines, while “Needs your attention” flags declining GPA, unclear career direction and unreviewed resumes. A calendar and live student activity feed sit alongside.

Students who may be

  • Unclear on direction
  • Stalled in their journey
  • Missing milestones
  • Showing competency gaps
  • Disengaging from career development

See who's moving. Know who needs you.

07 / 10Turn insight into action

Knowing who needs help is only useful if you can do something about it.

Move from insight to intervention without losing the student in the process. The advisor selects an action, a signal travels into the student's pocket, and their CareerLight experience updates.

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

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.

You assign a step. It shows up in their pocket.

Message a student, send a push notification, assign a Journey Step or assessment, share a resource, check in or celebrate a milestone — all from the same place you saw the signal.

08 / 10Make 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, learning and student success. CareerLight is designed to work alongside that ecosystem, combining those signals with its continuous understanding of student 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

Who needs help?
Why?
Who is ready?
What should we do next?
Is it working?

A more complete picture of every student. A more powerful career services team.

09 / 10Amplify your existing investments

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 personalized guidance across the student journey. The goal isn't another system your team has to manage — it's getting more value from the systems, opportunities and career resources you already have.

CareerLight

  • Understand
  • Engage
  • Develop
  • Prepare

The student becomes ready

Your opportunity ecosystem

Handshake
  • Employers
  • Experiences
  • Opportunities

More prepared students make every application, connection and opportunity more valuable.

Career launch

More prepared students make every opportunity more valuable.

65%
of employers report using skills-based hiring practices for college graduates, which rewards the competencies students build along the way.NACE, 2025
10 / 10Make your impact visible

Career services creates impact. Now make it easier to see.

Understand how students are engaging with career development, how their readiness is progressing and where your team's interventions are making a difference. Help leadership see career services not simply as a destination students visit, but as a measurable part of the student journey.

CareerLight My Impact page showing semester movement: resume completion up 21 points, engagement up 14, happiness up 12, plus a list of specific students the advisor moved forward.

What becomes visible

  • Students reached
  • Student engagement
  • Journey progress
  • Competency development
  • Advisor actions
  • Career readiness
  • Outcomes

Show your work. Show your reach. Show your impact.

The 10X effect

See more. Reach more. Do more.

See more

Build a richer understanding of every student's goals, readiness, engagement and career direction.

Reach more

Extend personalized career guidance beyond the students who actively seek out career services.

Do more

Give your team the intelligence and tools to focus their time where human expertise can make the greatest difference.

Same career team + CareerLight

  • More reach
  • More personalization
  • Earlier action
  • Stronger career readiness
  • More visible impact

10X doesn't mean replacing your career team or your technology. It means making everything you already have more powerful.

Why this matters now

83%+

of four-year institutions are implementing career-readiness competencies.

NACE, 2025
65%

of employers report using skills-based hiring practices for college graduates.

NACE, 2025
76%

of career centers report using AI as an assistive tool when working individually with students.

NACE, 2025
25%

of bachelor’s-degree students reported considering stopping out in the prior six months — a reminder that institutions continue to face meaningful student-success and persistence challenges.

Gallup-Lumina State of Higher Education, 2025
Career services for every student

Imagine what your team could do if every student stayed connected.

Give students personalized career guidance from Day One while giving your team the intelligence to reach further, intervene smarter and make its impact visible.

10X your reach. Not your headcount.