Career Compass™ is a comprehensive career guidance and subject selection platform built specifically for South African Grade 9 learners. The platform uses a 175-question psychometric assessment across four scientific modules — RIASEC occupational interests, Big Five personality traits, strengths and self-efficacy, and work values — to create a unique 25-dimensional psychometric fingerprint for each learner.
This fingerprint is then matched against a database of over 600 South African careers using cosine similarity, with real-time subject gatekeeper alerts that flag when subject choices could block access to top-matched university programs. The platform supports CAPS, IEB, Cambridge, and IB curricula, translating prerequisites automatically for each system. Every matched career is scored for AI automation resilience, helping learners steer toward future-proof paths rather than roles at risk of disappearing to automation.
Career Compass™ is built by Online Counsellor, a South African education technology company dedicated to bringing scientific, defensible career guidance to every Grade 9 learner in the country. The platform serves schools, individual learners of all ages, and career counsellors, providing parent-ready PDF reports, interactive subject simulators, and a counsellor dashboard for managing assessments at scale. Our mission is to replace guesswork and 20-minute quizzes with data-driven, future-proof decisions that learners and parents can defend with confidence.
Cosine similarity across 25 dimensions, not 3-box quizzes.
Real-time alerts before pathway choices lock.
Every career scored for automation risk.
Defensible PDF reports for every learner.