Help Students Choose Careers, Degrees and Colleges With Greater Confidence.
MAPP® helps students understand what motivates them and which careers may fit. The Assessment.com platform connects those insights to majors, degrees, colleges and universities, school outcomes, AI Risk Scores and real-time jobs, while giving guidance professionals intelligent intake, 100+ assessments, custom AI-assisted reports, private-label options and a personal portal for every student.
Trusted since 1995Used by 3,000+ Professional CoachesPrivate-label options
Guidance Dashboard
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MAPP® MATCHExcellent
AI RISK38 / 100
OPEN JOBS12,480
MAPP® Profile
See motivations, fit and career themes before the session.
Career Intelligence
Compare fit, salary, growth, AI risk and live openings.
AI Student Brief Ready
Career and major themes identified
Family Intake Complete
Prepared before first meeting
12.5M+People assessed
3,000+Professional Coaches
165+Countries
10Languages
1995Trusted since
Two Connected Strengths
The Proven Insight of MAPP®. A Complete College and Career Guidance Platform.
Start with self-discovery, then connect the student’s profile to careers, majors, degrees, institutions, cost and outcome information, future-of-work considerations and real employment opportunities.
MAPP® Foundation
Reveal what naturally motivates each student
MAPP® identifies motivations, interests, preferences and tendencies that can influence the types of careers, responsibilities and environments a student may find engaging.
Motivational strengths and career interests
Temperament and preferred work environments
People, things, data, reasoning, math and language patterns
Career matches, vocational areas and learning preferences
Combine MAPP® with student and family intake, additional assessments, academic interests and outside information, then connect findings to careers and education.
Student and family intake before the first meeting
Career-to-major and degree matching
Colleges and universities offering relevant programs
Use AI-supported summaries, themes and questions to enter every session with meaningful context.
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Explore
Connect student insights with matching careers, education options, future outlook and real opportunities.
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Act
Create tailored reports, action plans, development priorities and productive between-session work.
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Differentiate Your Practice
Deliver a polished, evidence-informed college and career guidance experience built around your expertise.
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Work More Efficiently
Reduce intake, research and report-preparation time while increasing personalization and consistency.
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Extend Student Value
Keep students and families engaged through a personal portal, career tools, education research and next-step guidance.
Intelligent Student & Family Intake
Understand the Student and Family Before the First Meeting.
Replace a generic form with a branded intake experience that reveals the student’s context, questions and decision criteria before you meet.
Collect grade level, academic interests, extracurricular activities, career ideas, college preferences, geography, campus environment, delivery format, budget considerations, family expectations, confidence and readiness. The AI Assistant can organize responses into a concise brief, surface tensions and suggest productive questions.
Build manually or with AI assistance
Use your own questions, sections and scoring
Create separate student and family perspectives
Recommend assessments based on each student’s needs
Biology, mentoring younger students and solving practical problems...
A meaningful career, hands-on experience and financial independence
Program fit, affordability, outcomes and campus environment...
AI Student Brief
Primary goal: Connect health and service interests to viable programs. Priorities: strong fit, manageable cost and practical experience. Explore: MAPP® themes, degree paths, family expectations and college outcomes.
One College & Career Guidance Platform
Move From Self-Discovery to an Education Decision.
Manage the complete student journey—from intake and MAPP® discovery to careers, majors, degrees, colleges, outcomes and next steps.
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MAPP® Assessment
Help students articulate the motivations, interests and preferences that influence career and education fit.
100+
Assessment Marketplace
Add personality, interests, skills, leadership, emotional intelligence, wellness and more.
AI
AI Guidance Assistant
Interpret results, prepare family meetings and draft tailored reports, questions and action plans.
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AI Assessment Builder
Create intake forms, situational-judgment assessments, interview assessments, quizzes, readiness tools and progress reviews for your methodology.
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Career Intelligence
Compare fit, responsibilities, skills, salary, growth, AI risk and real-time jobs.
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Education Pathways
Connect careers with majors, degrees, certificates and institutions offering relevant programs.
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Personal Student Portal
Give students an organized place to revisit results, explore options and continue their work.
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Private Label
Deliver a cohesive experience using your practice’s logo, colors, messaging and resources.
No single score should decide a student’s future. Use MAPP® as the motivational foundation, then add academic interests, goals, preferences and other relevant evidence.
Bring together MAPP® results, student and family intake, Marketplace assessments, guidance-created assessments, prior reports and supplied background information. The AI Assistant can identify recurring themes, meaningful differences and questions for the counselor to explore.
Review motivational fit and career-match detail
Compare themes across multiple assessments
Add academic, school and family decision criteria
Create a counselor-reviewed whole-student summary
AI Guidance Assistant & Custom Reporting
Turn Complex Student Information Into Clear, Professional Guidance.
Interpret results, compare assessment themes, prepare student and family conversations, and draft reports, questions and next-step plans for the guidance professional to review, refine and approve.
Career Clarity Report
Prepared from MAPP®, intake and career-exploration data
Advisor Reviewed
6Core motivators
12Careers to explore
5Priority actions
Motivational summaryExplain what naturally energizes the student and the work conditions most likely to support satisfaction.
Career implicationsConnect recurring themes with career possibilities, questions and areas that require investigation.
Next-step planConvert insight into research, conversations, skill development and measurable action.
Career & Major Pathways
Matching careers, education requirements and degree options
Custom
8Career themes
4Degree paths
5Next steps
Career hypothesesConnect MAPP® themes to career families worth exploring.
Education pathwaysCompare majors, degrees and credentials connected to promising careers.
Exploration planOrganize research, informational interviews and program comparisons.
Multi-Assessment Profile
MAPP® plus personality, interests, skills and supplied outside results
Integrated
4Data sources
9Recurring themes
3Differences to explore
Areas of agreementIdentify themes that appear consistently across intake, MAPP® and other assessments.
Nuance and differencesSurface findings that deserve a deeper guidance conversation rather than forcing a simple conclusion.
Whole-person interpretationCreate a coherent narrative the guidance professional can personalize and discuss with the student.
College Comparison Brief
Compare program fit, affordability, environment and outcomes
Decision Support
6Schools compared
8Decision factors
4Priority questions
Program alignmentCompare degrees, credentials and program characteristics related to the student’s goals.
Outcome evidenceReview available graduation, debt and earnings information alongside fit.
TradeoffsSurface cost, location, format and campus-environment questions for discussion.
Student & Family Meeting Summary
Shared priorities, open questions and agreed next steps
Family Ready
5Shared goals
3Tradeoffs
6Actions
Student perspectiveKeep the student’s motivations, interests and preferences visible.
Family prioritiesCapture affordability, expectations and practical constraints.
Decision planDocument research assignments, milestones and follow-up questions.
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Situational-Judgment Questions
Generate realistic situations that reveal how a student may respond to workplace challenges, ambiguity, competing priorities, communication demands and career decisions.
Discuss both the answer and the reasoning behind it
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Next Steps & Coaching Plans
Turn results and session findings into personalized action plans, development priorities, research assignments, milestones and productive work between sessions.
Move from insight to accountable action
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Interview Preparation
Create role-specific interview questions, behavioral prompts, questions the student should ask, STAR-story preparation and likely areas for deeper employer discussion.
Prepare for the actual opportunity
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Custom Interview Assessments
Use the AI Assessment Builder to create interview-readiness assessments, mock interview workflows and scored practice activities tailored to a role or industry.
Build once and reuse across students
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Interactive Quizzes
Create quizzes and practice tests that help students learn from how they responded, understand how their answers are interpreted and revisit concepts that need improvement.
Practice, receive feedback and improve
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Multi-Assessment Interpretation
Ask questions across MAPP®, intake, Marketplace assessments and supplied outside results to develop a richer, more personalized guidance conversation.
See patterns across the complete picture
Interactive Example
College Decision Practice
A student is comparing two colleges: one is more prestigious and expensive; the other costs less and offers a stronger matching program with better outcomes. What should they evaluate first?
The strongest guidance response creates a structured comparison of student fit, program strength, total cost, graduation and earnings outcomes, environment and long-term direction.
Learn From Every Response
Practice. Interpret. Improve.
Custom assessments and quizzes can help students learn how their responses are interpreted, practice college or scholarship interviews, explore decision scenarios and identify what to research next.
AI organizes and drafts. The guidance professional adds context, judgment and the human relationship that turns information into a thoughtful decision.
From Career Fit to Degree, College and Employment.
Evaluate personal alignment alongside the latest available government occupational data, salary and growth information, AI Risk Scores, education pathways, colleges offering related programs and real-time job openings.
Actual Platform View
See Why a Career Matches
Move beyond a single percentage. Coaches and students can review the MAPP® match across people, temperament, interest in job content, data, reasoning and other relevant dimensions.
Career-specific MAPP® matching
Detailed fit dimensions
Matching degrees and educational pathways
Direct connection to current jobs
Actual Platform View
Connect Career Possibilities to Real Openings
Review current opportunities connected to a matching career, including employer, location, work format, employment type, disclosed salary, posting date and job-match percentage.
Real-time matching job openings
Location, employer, format and salary filters
Job-to-profile matching
Direct links to review opportunities
Actual Platform View
Understand Salary, Growth and Demand
Use the latest available career and government labor-market information to help students consider compensation, projected growth and annual openings alongside personal fit.
Median salary information
Projected ten-year job growth
Estimated annual openings
Full career-outlook details
Government labor-market data is updated periodically. The live platform should display the applicable source and data year.
Actual Platform View
Connect Careers to Degrees and Institutions
Help students evaluate the education required to reach a career, then explore institutions offering relevant programs with meaningful cost and outcome information.
Matching majors and degree programs
Schools offering each program
Graduation rate and median debt
Median earnings and MAPP® match
Personal Alignment
MAPP® Match Score, motivations, preferences and potential satisfaction factors.
Market Reality
Current salary information, projected growth and estimated annual openings.
Future Outlook
AI Risk Score, changing tasks and opportunities to strengthen career resilience.
Real Action
Education pathways, employer requirements, résumé keywords and real-time jobs.
Private Label Capabilities
Deliver the Experience Under Your Brand.
Keep your practice at the center of the student relationship with a polished, cohesive and professional assessment experience.
Your logo and brand colors
Branded student portal and welcome messaging
Custom assessment invitations and instructions
Branded intake assessments and reports
Your contact information, resources and calls to action
Your Visual IdentityUse your practice logo, approved colors and student-facing brand presentation.
Branded InvitationsIntroduce assessments and intake through communications connected to your practice.
Custom Welcome ExperienceSet expectations, explain your process and guide students toward the right first step.
Branded ReportsDeliver polished student summaries and reports that reinforce your professional value.
Your Resources & CTAsConnect students to scheduling, services, learning resources and next-step offers.
Private-Label OptionsConfigure available branding capabilities based on the selected professional plan.
A Complete College Guidance Journey
From Self-Discovery to a Confident Plan
Create a repeatable student and family experience while preserving the judgment, context and human relationship only a guidance professional can provide.
Invite
Send a branded intake and invite the student into their personal portal.
Assess
Begin with MAPP® and add other assessments when they provide useful perspective.
Interpret
Review results, outside information and AI-supported themes before meeting.
Explore
Compare careers, education, salary, growth, AI risk and live opportunities.
Act & Develop
Create reports, plans, learning activities and measurable next steps.
MAPP® and Assessment.com for College Guidance Coaches
MAPP® helps students articulate motivations, interests, preferences and natural tendencies that can otherwise be difficult to explain. These insights create a structured starting point for conversations about careers, majors, degrees, colleges and next steps.
Yes. Depending on access level, MAPP® and the Assessment.com platform can provide detailed motivational insights, career matches, occupational profiles, education pathways, salary and growth information, AI Risk Scores and real-time job openings. Coaches can use these tools to help students understand not only which careers may fit, but why they may fit and how to move forward.
Yes. Guidance professionals can create intake assessments, questionnaires and surveys tailored to their process. These can collect academic interests, activities, career ideas, college preferences, family expectations, affordability considerations and questions before the first meeting.
Available AI tools can help organize intake responses into a concise student brief, identify themes, suggest questions and highlight information that deserves further exploration. The guidance professional reviews the summary and applies professional judgment.
Yes. MAPP® can provide the motivational foundation, while personality, interests, skills, emotional intelligence, leadership, values and other assessments can add useful perspectives. The Marketplace includes free and premium options across life, learning and career.
Relevant outside results and student documents can be added or summarized for consideration alongside information collected through Assessment.com. This can include previous assessment reports, résumés, career histories, performance feedback and development plans.
The AI Assistant can help organize and compare findings, identify recurring themes, surface questions and create a consolidated draft interpretation for the guidance professional to review and personalize.
Yes. Guidance professionals can use assessment findings, intake information and AI-assisted tools to prepare student-discovery summaries, career-and-major pathways, college comparisons, meeting summaries and action plans. The guidance professional reviews and refines each report before sharing it.
Assessment.com can supplement career matching with the latest available occupational information from authoritative sources such as the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET program and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Career profiles should identify the relevant source and data date. Government salary and outlook data is updated periodically, while current job openings can be displayed in real time.
The AI Risk Score helps users explore the potential exposure of a career’s tasks to artificial intelligence and automation. It supports conversations about changing responsibilities, future resilience and skills development. It is not a prediction that a career will disappear.
Depending on the selected plan, private label capabilities can allow coaches and organizations to incorporate their logo, colors, messaging and other brand elements into parts of the student experience.
Certification is not necessarily required to begin using MAPP® professionally. Coaches can explore becoming a MAPP® Authorized Partner, while those seeking deeper interpretation expertise and formal recognition can pursue the MAPP® Certified Coach pathway.
No. Assessment.com provides assessment data, organization, exploration and AI-assisted tools. The guidance professional provides professional judgment, context, empathy, accountability and the human relationship required to translate information into meaningful decisions and action.
The AI-Powered College & Career Guidance Platform Built Around the World-Renowned MAPP® Assessment
Every student has unique strengths, motivations, interests, learning preferences, and aspirations. Yet too many students choose majors, colleges, and careers based on limited information, outside influence, or uncertainty about who they truly are.
College and career guidance professionals face increasing demands to help more students with fewer resources while providing personalized guidance that prepares students for meaningful futures.
Combining the scientifically validated MAPP® (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) assessment with AI-powered coaching, educational planning tools, career exploration, custom assessments, analytics, and one of the world's largest assessment marketplaces, Assessment.com provides counselors and coaches with a complete platform for guiding students from self-discovery to successful educational and career outcomes.
Whether you're an independent college counselor, educational consultant, high school guidance counselor, college advising practice, nonprofit organization, or workforce development program, Assessment.com helps you deliver more personalized guidance, support more students, and create measurable outcomes.
Students are being asked to make some of the most important decisions of their lives at an increasingly younger age.
Questions like:
What should I study?
Which college is right for me?
What career fits me best?
Should I pursue a trade, college, military, or entrepreneurship?
Will this degree lead to meaningful work?
What am I naturally good at?
What motivates me?
What if I choose the wrong path?
Counselors face overwhelming caseloads while trying to provide individualized attention to every student.
Many rely on conversations, interest inventories, transcripts, and standardized test scores, but these only tell part of the story.
Students need deeper insight into who they are before making educational decisions that can impact the rest of their lives.
Assessment.com transforms traditional college and career advising into a structured, data-driven guidance experience.
Instead of relying solely on conversations and academic records, counselors gain objective assessment data, AI-powered insights, educational pathway recommendations, career matching, and interactive coaching tools.
The platform helps students answer not only:
"What can I study?"
But also:
What motivates me?
What kind of work will I enjoy?
Which careers fit my natural strengths?
Which college majors align with my motivations?
What educational pathways support those careers?
Which colleges offer those programs?
What skills should I begin developing today?
Make the Next Decision More Informed
Help Students See How Who They Are Connects to What They Study—and Where It Can Lead.
Combine your expertise with MAPP®, student and family intake, multi-assessment insights, AI-assisted reports, career intelligence, education pathways and college outcome data.
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