Career planning from grades 9-16+ to workforce

Turn career interests into realistic plans.

Students, job seekers, and career changers compare college, credential, apprenticeship, bridge, and recovery paths. They see what each one requires, what can get in the way, and what to do next.

Built for schools, CTE, TRIO, workforce programs, counselors, mentors, advisors, and coaches.

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  • Compare the ways in
  • See requirements early
  • Save a first choice and backup
  • A plan staff can use
Illustration of a student, seen from behind, at a fork with three paths leading to a campus, a workshop, and a workplace

Traditional College and Career Plan

I’m going to Cal State Fullerton to become a nurse.

Plan complete

  • How I get in
  • What it costs, how long it takes
  • What I need to compete
  • If the traditional path doesn’t work

Students need the hidden curriculum of their career: how you get in, what it costs, what it takes to compete.

From “I like science” to a plan someone can act on.

Real screens from the product, following one fictional student from a first interest to a conversation with their counselor.

Interest results for a fictional student showing the code IRS: Investigative, Realistic and Social, with a score bar for each.
An assessment starts a conversation. It does not choose a career for the student.
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Built from work in the field. Reinforced by research that works.

PlannedQuest started in real advising sessions with students who were stuck. Every part of it below traces back to established career research.

An interest quiz should shape what a student sees next, not end at the results screen.

We carry the interest result into every career a student opens so a student can see why something came up, and judge the work instead of the label.

John HollandTheory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments (RIASEC)

Reflection is a step in the product, not a worksheet at the end.

We ask what a student took from the thing they just did so a student can leave with evidence instead of a memory.

David KolbExperiential Learning Theory

Confidence gets built from finishable steps, not from a pep talk.

We cut a distant goal down to meaningful steps that are usually left out, and show how people actually got in so a student can finish something real, and see that people like them did.

Albert BanduraSocial Cognitive Theory and Self-Efficacy

Changing your mind should be an edit, not a restart.

We keep a backup beside the first choice, and record what carries between them so a student can change direction without losing the year behind them.

Mark SavickasCareer Construction Theory

"Become a nurse" stays a wish until you know what it actually takes.

We spell out the real bar for each way in: the prerequisites, the grades, the deadlines, and how competitive the seats are so a student commits with the bar in view, instead of finding it out from a rejection letter.

Edwin Locke and Gary LathamGoal Setting Theory

The barrier belongs in the plan, next to the step it blocks.

We name what is in the way beside the step it blocks, and keep the next move ready so a no from one program is a turn in the plan, not the end of it.

Lent, Brown and HackettSocial Cognitive Career Theory

Built for education workflows.

PlannedQuest is built for education teams that need clear staff roles, no advertising trackers, and a first pilot they can actually run.

  • Plug In Ventures founder ecosystem
  • Supported through OCIE SBDC advising
  • Chapman University Leatherby CenterInstantaneous Accelerator participant

Privacy and procurement

PlannedQuest is FERPA and COPPA compliant. We have taken the 1EdTech TrustEd Apps Pledge, we maintain a completed HECVAT for higher-education review, and our standard data privacy agreement is available to any district. We use no advertising pixels, session replay, or third-party marketing trackers, and a SOC 2 audit is underway with an independent auditor. We work to each institution’s own requirements, and where they fit our mission we adopt them.

Also
No advertising trackers
No ad pixels, session replay, or third-party marketing trackers
In placeVerifiable in any browser
Data privacy agreement
Our standard agreement for districts
On requestSent on request
SOC 2
Independent security audit underway
In progressReport expected end of 2026
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