A career compass built on how you’re wired—not a four-letter label.

Seven trait domains, scored independently

Each of the 49 questions belongs to one of seven domains. Every question offers four answer choices, and each choice maps to a specific trait (for example, Analytical, Visual, Verbal, or Holistic under Cognitive Orientation) and carries a numeric weight. As you answer, we add those weights into a running score for each trait.

At the end, the highest-scoring trait in each of the seven domains becomes one of your “anchor” traits. That gives you a seven-trait fingerprint—one anchor per domain—drawn from 28 possible traits in total (four per domain). It’s the combination, not any single trait, that makes the profile specifically yours.

The multi-dimensional nature of the profile is what makes career matching work. Two people can both be “introverts” and want very different jobs. We look at how your cognition, energy, motivation, risk tolerance, and growth style interact.

Your fingerprint becomes your archetype profile

Once the assessment produces your seven anchor traits, Compass maps that fingerprint to a named archetype profile—an identity that captures how those traits interact. The profile is the anchor your compass is built on, and every other feature draws from it.

Each archetype profile includes:

Add your experience

Traits explain how you’re wired. Experience grounds it in what you’ve already done. You can upload a resume (PDF, DOCX, DOC, or TXT) and we’ll parse it into structured entries automatically, or add jobs, education, volunteering, and projects by hand.

Every experience entry feeds the prompts we send to generate your narrative, career matches, and reflections. Your archetype profile is fed in alongside, so the writing references both how you’re wired and what you’ve actually done—instead of reading like a generic trait readout.

You can edit your experience any time from the compass page. Adding a new job will flag your compass as stale so you can regenerate with the fresh context.

Explore your compass

Once your profile is built, Compass gives you:

• Your archetype hero & profile dashboard. Your archetype name and tagline sit at the top, with a compact dashboard showing Core Anchors, Strengths, Built-In Tensions, Blind Spots, Natural Habitat, and Gift to the World—pulled straight from your matched profile.
• A personal narrative. Four paragraphs describing who you are, how your wiring shows up in real life, the impact you’re built to make, and honest encouragement for the path ahead.
• Reflections on your past. For each job, class, volunteer role, or project you’ve added, Compass writes a trait-grounded reflection: what likely felt alive, what drained you, and which career paths naturally pick up where that experience left off. Free users see one reflection (we pick a mixed-fit experience when available, since those are usually the most useful); Pro unlocks the rest.
• Career matches on their own page. Click “Careers” from the header to see your matches. Free users see one; Pro users see all six. Each match includes a personal-fit explanation referencing your anchors, BLS median salary, growth outlook, demand level, education path, and a day-in-the-life snapshot.
• A deep dive for each match. Overview, salary bands entry-through-senior, top-paying industries, market outlook, required and preferred credentials, academic tracks with realistic tuition ranges, technical and soft skills, concrete actions you can take now, career progression with salary at each stage, work environment, a vivid day-in-the-life, and links to professional organizations.

Revisit, refine, regenerate

Your wiring doesn’t change often, but your experience does. When you add a new job, Compass automatically regenerates with the fresh context. Pro subscribers can also retake the assessment up to 2 times per month—each retake triggers an automatic regeneration so your compass always reflects your latest results.

Pro users also get two manual regenerations per calendar month. Regeneration uses your previous compass as a light reference, so results refresh and deepen rather than swinging to something unrecognizable.

You can also click any related career from a deep dive to generate a new, full deep dive on demand.

Real sources, cited on every card

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook for salary bands, employment projections, and growth outlooks.
• O*NET OnLine for skill requirements, work activities, and occupation summaries.
• Accrediting bodies and major professional associations for credential paths and student-membership info.
• Vetted learning platforms (Coursera, Khan Academy, edX, and similar) for low-cost preparation resources.

Every career card surfaces the specific BLS OOH page and O*NET entry so you can verify the figures for yourself. If a URL ever looks off, tell us—we don’t ship fabricated links.