The Career Discovery Process
Step One: Introductory Coaching Call
The process begins with an introductory coaching call.
This first conversation gives us the opportunity to get to know the student before the assessment begins. We talk about where they are in life, what decisions they are facing, what questions they are asking, and what they hope to gain from the process.
Some students already have a few career ideas and need help narrowing them down. Others feel unsure and need help finding a starting point. Some are thinking about college majors, while others are considering trade school, military service, work, or other options.
The introductory call helps create context for the rest of the coaching process.
Step Two: Career inSight Assessment
After the introductory call, the student completes the Career inSight assessment.
Career inSight is an AI-powered career discovery system created specifically for students. It helps students explore five important areas:
Purpose
The student’s background, life experiences, motivations, and sense of direction.
Personality
How the student is wired, how they tend to think, relate, respond, and work.
Proficiencies
The student’s skills, strengths, abilities, and areas of natural or developing competence.
Passions
The student’s interests, career curiosities, and areas of work they may be drawn toward.
Principles
The student’s values, priorities, work preferences, and what matters most as they think about the future.
Instead of simply matching students with a list of jobs, Career inSight looks for patterns across these areas and helps identify career fields that may be worth exploring.
Step Three: Personalized Career inSight Report
Once the assessment is complete, the student receives a personalized Career inSight report.
This report gives the student a detailed look at their strengths, possible blind spots, personality patterns, work preferences, interests, values, and suggested career areas.
The report is not designed to tell a student exactly what they must do with their life. Instead, it gives them a clearer picture of who they are and provides direction for further exploration.
For many students, this is the first time they have seen their personality, strengths, interests, and values brought together in one place in a way that connects to their future.
Step Four: Online Navigation Stage
After receiving the report, the student completes the online Navigation stage.
This guided online experience helps the student walk through the major parts of the Career inSight report. The goal is to help them understand what the report is saying, reflect on what stands out, and begin thinking about how the insights connect to real life.
During the Navigation stage, students are encouraged to slow down, pay attention to patterns, and think through what they are learning about themselves.
This step prepares the student for the coaching conversation that follows.
Step Five: Coaching Session
After the student completes the Navigation stage, we meet for a one-on-one coaching session.
In this session, we review the Career inSight report together and talk through the student’s key discoveries. We look at what seems accurate, what raises questions, what career areas are worth exploring, and what next steps may make sense.
This conversation helps the student move beyond simply reading the report. It gives them the opportunity to process the results with a coach, ask questions, clarify ideas, and begin connecting their insights to actual decisions.
The coaching session is designed to help students feel less overwhelmed and more equipped to move forward.
Step Six: Next Steps and Goal Setting
The process concludes with a Next Step and Goal-Setting exercise.
This is where the student begins turning insight into action.
Together, we identify a few practical next steps the student can take after the coaching process. These may include researching career fields, exploring college majors, talking with someone in a specific profession, visiting a campus program, looking into internships, job shadowing, updating a resume, or setting academic and personal goals.
The goal is for every student to leave the process with more than information. They leave with direction, a clearer sense of purpose, and a practical plan for what to do next.