Pathway Planner™
A Career Assessment to Help You Find the Right Career Path
Career change statistics suggest that the average person will make a career change approximately 5–7 times during their working life. Do you need help identifying possible career choices? Are you seeking careers that you can learn at a comfortable pace? Are you looking to excel in your career using your natural tendencies? Our Pathway Planner™ at HireSmart is a powerful career assessment test and advanced career planning tool designed to guide you toward the right career path. This in-depth career guidance assessment helps you discover career options where you have a higher probability of long-term success and satisfaction.
What the Pathway Planner™ Assessment Delivers
- Assists students with selecting majors and degrees that match their thinking style, personality traits, and interests.
- Identifies career possibilities and provides insight into occupations for the highly-skilled, competitive workforce.
- Assists adults in transitioning from one career to another.
- Introduces a mechanism for individuals to learn about their abilities and validate their career choices.
- Provides a review of thinking style, interests, and personality traits.
- Outlines numerical ability, numerical reasoning, verbal skill, verbal reasoning, and overall learning index results.
- Includes an “interests” portion that measures traits such as creativity, people service, and technical skills that relate to various occupations.
- Generates a personality traits review that helps individuals select careers that best fit their strengths and interests.
- Provides a link with O*NET (Occupational Information Network from the US Department of Labor) for additional career matching information.
- Provides an overview of unique strengths, talents, and abilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
This assessment is for individuals looking for guidance on career path selection. This would include high school students, those leaving the military, and people of any age contemplating a career change.
Our Pathway Planner™ career planning tool includes a database of over 800 careers, allowing you to explore a wide range of opportunities that align with your personal strengths and interests.
Career Clusters were developed by the Department of Education as a standard for grouping all related careers. There are 16 different Career Clusters. You can Google Career Clusters and find a wealth of reference information.
The career matches are based on the candidate’s answers regarding career interests and educational goals.
Jobs listed in the report have a minimum 75% match based on your results from the career assessment test, helping you focus on roles where you are most likely to succeed.
Currently, the Pathway Planner™ career planning tool is available in US English only.