For community colleges
Every student needs a clear path to what comes next.
CareerLight helps students choose it, stay on it, and reach it with personalized guidance from enrollment through completion, career, or transfer.
Built to work alongside the advising, SIS, LMS and career systems you already use.
Built for your existing ecosystem
Day One
Find your starting point.
Discover
Explore strengths, interests and possibilities.
Choose
Identify a goal-aligned program and direction.
Plan
Know what to work toward next.
Build
Develop skills, competencies and momentum.
Progress
Stay connected to the goal.
Career
Turn skills and credentials into opportunity.
Transfer
Turn progress into the next degree.
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.
A declared program isn't always a plan
Give every student a map.
Community college students often arrive with more than one career, program or destination in mind. CareerLight helps turn exploration into direction by connecting each student's interests, strengths, goals and skills to a path they can understand and act on.
65%
of first-time community college students in a recent CCRC study listed three careers they were considering.
61%
listed three possible programs of study.
Source: Community College Research Center, 2025
Many possible directions
CareerLight
A clearer path forward
Exploration is healthy. Drifting isn't.
Guidance built around real life
Their lives don't run on office hours. Their support shouldn't either.
Community college students are often balancing school with work, family and changing schedules. CareerLight puts personalized guidance, goals and next steps in their pocket so support doesn't depend on being on campus at the right time.
Source: American Association of Community Colleges, 2026
For every student
CareerLight App
Career guidance when the student has time to use it.
Personalized Journey Steps
The next step, ready whenever they open the app.
Career exploration
Explore directions on their own time.
Goals
Set what they are working toward and why.
Progress
See how far they have come at a glance.
AI guidance
Answers and direction outside office hours.
Reminders and next steps
Gentle nudges that keep momentum going.
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 and why. Always 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
- MRMaya R.Nursing · Semester 2Engagement down 38% · no resume on file
- JTJordan T.Business Administration · Year 1Career direction unclear · stalled at Develop
- CMCarlos M.HVAC CertificateMissed 3 journey steps · low confidence
- ALAvery L.Liberal Arts · Transfer PathwayInactive 21 days
- SKSam K.Computer Information Systems · Part-timeNo goal set · low activity
- 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.
CareerLight is designed to work alongside the systems your advising, student success, transfer and career teams already use, adding continuous context around student goals, direction, competencies, Journey Steps 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
- 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 view of the student journey. A more connected support 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.
Solutions like Handshake connect students to opportunities. CareerLight helps students become ready for them.
CareerLight complements the platforms your advising, student success and career teams already use by adding continuous student engagement, competency development and actionable intelligence across the student journey.
10X student guidance
See more. Reach more. Support more.
Reach more students
Extend personalized guidance beyond scheduled appointments.
Intervene earlier
See when direction, progress or engagement begins to change.
Support more intentionally
Give advisors clearer context about who may need help and why.
10X doesn't mean replacing your team or your technology. It means making everything you already have more powerful.
Staying connected
54.1%
of part-time students who started college in fall 2024 returned the following fall.
Persistence measure for part-time starters.
Source: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Give students another reason to stay on course.
Students leave college for many reasons. CareerLight focuses on an area 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 what your team does to how students progress and the outcomes that follow.
One platform. Four institutional priorities.
Clarify. Persist. Complete. Advance.
Clarify
Help students choose a goal-aligned path.
Persist
Keep the destination and next step visible.
Complete
Turn plans into steady progress toward a credential.
Advance
Prepare students for career, transfer, or the next credential.
A clearer journey for students. A more actionable view for the people supporting them.
Transfer starts long before the final semester
Keep the transfer destination visible from the start.
Many community college students begin with a bachelor's degree in mind, but the path from aspiration to successful transfer is far from automatic. CareerLight helps keep transfer goals, milestones and advisor support visible throughout the student journey.
Source: Community College Research Center / Aspen Institute
The aspiration is there. The path needs to stay visible.
What CareerLight keeps in view
- Transfer goal
- Target destination
- Journey Steps
- Milestones
- Reminders
- Advisor check-ins
- Transfer resources
Career readiness still matters
A credential is stronger when students know how to turn it into opportunity.
CareerLight helps students connect their program to the skills, competencies and career expectations that matter after completion, so preparation starts before the job search does.
Don't just help students complete. Help them understand what completion can lead to.
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.
Going beyond applications
Going beyond applications. Building a career.
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.