Career Compass reads high-school girls' personality traits and vocational interests together, and gives each student a career discovery map of her own.
We work so that young girls can discover their own potential and see the path ahead of them.
How many options a young person can see often depends less on her ability than on her surroundings. We work to close that gap.
We partner with schools, reach students directly, and help them understand themselves through evidence-based tools.
We never tell anyone “choose this profession.” We believe a young person must first see her options in order to make her own decision.
A personalised career-awareness programme that reads personality and vocational interest together.
Students complete two short inventories. From their answers the system derives both their personality tendencies and their vocational interest profile, then reads the two together to produce a report written for that student alone.
The aim is not to assign a profession, but to begin the process of self-knowledge → exploring career fields → researching possible professions.
Results are offered as a tool for discovery and self-awareness, not as a definitive career choice. Choosing a career depends not only on personality and interest, but also on academic achievement, skills, values, educational opportunities and the student's own preferences.
The decision always belongs to the student.
Four steps. Forty items in total, about fifteen minutes for the student.
Personality and vocational interest. There are no right or wrong answers; we ask how she describes herself and what she enjoys.
Answers are scored automatically; five personality dimensions and six interest fields are computed.
The interest profile is read together with the personality tendencies. This is the genuinely novel part of the project.
Career fields to explore, which university programmes in Türkiye lead to them, and concrete steps she can take.
Both instruments rest on published studies developed with high-school students in Türkiye.
Measures the five basic dimensions of personality: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience.
Based on Holland's RIASEC model; measures six vocational interest fields: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional.
Occupational information is drawn from the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database (CC BY 4.0). O*NET is used only as a source of occupational information, never as a test.
The report is more than a set of scores; every section rests on the student's own answers and its source is recorded.
September 2026 – August 2027, twelve months.
Team set-up, school partnerships, instrument permissions, building the system and a pilot administration.
Profiling 300 students, preparing personal reports and holding mentoring sessions.
Closing meeting, monitoring and evaluation, and sharing what was learned.
What every participating student and her parent should know.
For students to take their tests and see their results, and for the project team to run the process.