Futureful · for students, grads and anyone starting out
You are not behind. You have just never been shown the map.
Whether you are in a four year program, at community college, in a trade school, or you finished high school this June with no plan, the question is the same: what can I actually do, and what do I do first. This answers both from real US résumés, not from advice.
Free for job seekers, always. We never charge you, we never sell your information, and we do not need a résumé to start. Not ready for an account? Take the free 90 second assessment first.
Start where you actually are
These are not four labels on the same page. Each one builds a different plan, because a trade school student in their second term and a psychology junior are not solving the same problem.
18 and out of high school
No degree yet, and that is fine
You do not need a résumé to start, and nothing here assumes college. We work from what you have actually done, including a summer job, and build the first one with you.
Start hereCommunity / junior college
Make the classes add up to something
Undeclared is a normal place to be. See which of your classes and skills already point at real roles, so the next semester is a decision instead of a guess.
Start hereCollege or recent grad
Answer the question about your major
Your degree is not the job title. We match on the skills it actually gave you, name the roles those open, and show what people with that background really did next.
Start hereTrade or vocational
You already have the skill. See what it pays
Hands-on training counts as experience here. We turn it into a résumé that reads like a trade, and point you at openings that want exactly it.
Start hereIn more than one of these at once? Most people are. Start with the one you spend the most hours in, and the rest of the page works the same either way.
The question everyone actually has
What does my major actually open?
Not the job title with your major in the name. The roles that hire what your degree and your actual experience gave you, each one carrying the number of real people behind it, plus the one skill worth building next.
Straight with you about coverage: the résumé atlas behind this tool is strongest in software and IT, where most of its mapped roles sit. If you are in nursing, education, a trade, or the arts, it may come back thin, and it will say so rather than invent a match. In that case the free 90 second assessment is the better first move: it runs on US Department of Labor occupation data, which covers every kind of work.
A class project counts. A summer job counts. This is what makes the match real, so two or three honest ones beat a long list.
Or start from two in one line:
Add two skills you have used to run it. Your subject is optional.
Free, no account, and nothing you type is stored. Every role and number comes from real US résumés, and any occupation list from the US Department of Labor's O*NET data. The written part is a Claude model reading only those numbers, and it is labelled where it appears.
What you get back
- 1 The real roles your subject plus your skills already fit, each with the number of real résumés behind it.
- 2 How many of the closest role's defining skills you already hold, and the exact skills to build next.
- 3 Where people who did that job actually went afterwards.
- 4 A short read of all of it in plain words, and one thing to do this week.
If we do not have evidence for what you typed, you get told that instead of a guess.
Your first four moves
In order, and every one of them is a working page you can open right now. Do the first and the rest get easier.
Find out how you like to work
The free 90 second assessment is the real US Department of Labor interest inventory, not a personality quiz. No account, and it does not ask for your email first.
Take it freeSee what your subject actually opens
Put your major and the tools you have really used into the explorer below. It matches them against real US résumés and names the roles, each with the count of people behind it.
Open the explorerMatch what you already have
Paste a résumé, or just list skills. You get the roles it opens, how many real résumés back each one, and the exact skills to build next. A pasted résumé is read by an AI model, and nothing you paste is stored.
Run the fit toolStop applying into the void
Tell us what you are after and real openings come to you as they show up, instead of you sending another eighty applications and hearing back from two.
Get matchedWhat a route actually looks like
These six are examples we wrote, not real students, and every card says so. We include them because a planner with nothing in it does not show you what a finished plan looks like. No outcome is being claimed by any of them. What is real is every page they link to.
“I graduated in June with no plan. Everyone kept asking what I was doing next and I did not have an answer. I have never written a résumé and I did not think I had anything to put on one.”
Started with
Was after
A full time job that pays more than my summer job and goes somewhere.
The route, every step a real page
- 1Take the free 90 second assessmentNo account, no résumé. It is the real US Department of Labor interest inventory, not a personality quiz.
- 2See the work archetype it gives youTurns the answers into a plain description of how you like to work, and the kinds of jobs that fit it.
- 3Pick your stage and start a planThe stage picker builds the plan around someone with no degree yet, so it never assumes one.
- 4Get matched to real openingsReal live postings. You tell it what you are after and it brings roles to you.
Came out with
- ·A résumé built from a job she already had, not from nothing
- ·Four job titles she had never heard of that use what she can already do
- ·An answer for the question everyone kept asking
Jade is an example we wrote to show the shape of a route. Not a real student, and no result is being claimed here. What is real is every page linked above.
What we will not do to you
We never charge you
Every tool on this page is free to a job seeker, and there is no upgrade waiting behind the third click. Employers pay us. You never do.
We never invent a number
Every role, count and percentage comes from real US résumés and carries the count of people behind it. When the evidence is thin, we say the evidence is thin.
We never sell your information
Not to a school, not to a recruiter, not to an advertiser. And no employer can contact you through us until you say so.
Want the specifics on what we collect, how it is stored, and how to have it deleted? It is all on the protections page, in plain words.
One honest answer beats another list of advice.
Neither of these needs an account, and both of them are free.
Not sure what you want yet
Ninety seconds with the real US Department of Labor interest inventory. You will know more about where you are pointed than you did this morning.
Start freeJust want to look around
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