Career Coaching for Students™ provides a wealth of authoritative and up-to-date career and strategic higher education information in Student Resource Central™, the program's web-based student research center.

Unlike other student career exploration programs, Career Coaching for Students™ takes a coach-approach and uses the same assessments used by companies to match people to jobs. These two differentiators create a significantly higher level of credibility and engagement for students. Students take personal ownership through this program.

Although Career Coaching for Students™ provides an incredible wealth of information about the student's talent, about potential careers that match that talent, about education options to choose from, we use a proprietary step-by-step process that quickly narrows a world of opportunity to those specific careers the student has high probability of enjoyment and success. This step-by-step process is driven 100% by the student, not by a list generator.

Career Coaching for Students™ enables the student to take control of their career planning journey. No other career program provides highly valid and reliable talent assessments, a coach-approach to support the student combined with vast resources on the web and a proprietary step-by-step method that makes it enjoyable. 

Success Discoveries LLC would like to thank the following content partners:

Career Information

The U.S. Department of Labor maintains the most comprehensive and up-to-date databases of career information.  Career Coaching for Students™ uniquely combines several databases provided by the D.O.L. such as the O*NET® database, the Occupational Outlook Handbook, and salary information at the national and state levels.

Career Assessments

The Career Planning Insights™ and Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values™ assessments are developed and validated by TTI Performance Systems, Ltd., the world leader in personal and professional assessment tools. TTI Performance Systems Ltd. assessments are time-tested and proven to provide solutions for today’s business challenges with selection, satisfaction and development of a company’s biggest asset – people. Career Coaching for Students™ leverages what thousands of companies already know - performance and satisfaction can be predicted.

The Career Planning Insights™ assessment is a DISC-based behavioral assessment. The Personal Interest, Attitudes and Values™ assessment identifies a person's priorities much like Holland's R-I-A-S-E-C interest structure or the Strong Interest Inventory.

The key to TTI's success is the level of validity and reliability of their assessments.

Colleges and Universities

Information about 7,000+ Colleges, universities and vocational learning institutions are available at the touch of a button due to the excellent web resources developed by best-in-class non-profit sites including the National Center for Education Statistics-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Services, College Board, U.S. News and World, University of Illinois, Princeton Review, Education-Portal.com and several other credible sources.

Career Clusters

We have links to the Career Clusters Institute and States' Career Clusters Initiative student pages for clusters and Pathways. All of the careers in each of the 16 Career Clusters are sub-grouped into Pathways. The number of Pathways per Cluster varies from two to seven. This organizational structure for presenting career areas are very helpful to a student. The key is to maintain the connection between career exploration, specific jobs and the student's personal talents.

The States’ Career Clusters Initiative (SCCI) is an initiative established under the National Career Technical Education Foundation (NCTEF) to provide Career Clusters as a tool for seamless transition from education to career in this era of changing workplace demands. SCCI helps states as they connect career technical education (CTE) to education, workforce preparation, and economic development. To this end, SCCI develops new products and promotes information-sharing, techniques, and methods to aid the development and implementation of Career Clusters within states.  

Life Skills for Students™ E-Learning Program for the 21st Century

Life Skills for Students™ is a compilation of 12 personal soft skills (plus 4 bonus skill learning modules) that have been connected to highly successful people, regardless of career path or educational path. The 12 skill e-learning modules were developed by TTI Performance Systems more specifically for adults in the work world.

Several of these learning modules support the four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity and innovation), identified as 21st Century Skills by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Career Videos

Career Coaching for Students™ incorporates career videos that are provided by the One-Stop Career System Multimedia Career Video Library.

The career videos were developed and distributed by the Center for Occupational Employment Information (COEI) under a grant from America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS), a program of the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA). They are designed to provide a brief, visual introduction to the world of work for a career.

Other Resources

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
The Common Application Membership Association
National Association of Secondary School Principals
TED - TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design -- hence TED -- but TED's reach, and its scope, have become ever broader since then. TEDTalks cover science, arts, politics, global issues, architecture, music and more. Speakers come from a wide variety of communities and disciplines.