Career Coach is a tool that utilizes comprehensive labor market data to assist students and job seekers in making informed career decisions, developing resumes, and discovering training programs. You can access Career Coach by creating an account with your FIU credentials.
Whether you are looking into the Career and Talent Development department to help you start your career, change career paths, or take your current career to the next level, we are here to help you pursue your goals.
That’s why we invite you to explore Career Coach, an easy-to-use online tool developed to help students like you get real-time, research-backed information on various careers and degree programs.
How does it work?
- Get Started
- Take an assessment that matches you up with careers or just search for any program or career.
- View Your Matches
- Explore broad career pathways that match your strengths and interests.
- Explore Careers
- Compare careers within a pathway: salaries, required education, and more.
- Find The Right Program
- Explore the programs that will train you for your favorite career. Quickly apply for programs by jumping over to the institution’s program page.
- Take The Next Step
- Create a profile and quickly craft your resume. Career Coach will even suggest tasks and skills to include based on your work experience. Ready to apply? Upload your resume directly to employers within Career Coach!
Features List
- Pulls data from more than 18 billion labor market data points, including job postings, and career profiles
- Houses a live labor-market data and library of more than 32,000+ employer-requested skills
- Utilized by 318 institutions and organizations across the US & Canada
Lightcast Widgets
The Lightcast widget gives you real-time insights into careers, including current job openings, required skills, and up-to-date labor-market trends. It’s designed to help you explore options, understand what employers are looking for, and feel confident about your next steps. You can find and search the Lightcast widget on all of our career pathways. Start exploring today!
Career Coach is an incredible resource that helps students explore careers through real data, such as salary insights, job openings, top skills employers want, and clear career paths. It also offers a personality assessment, resume suggestions, and tailored job titles to search. It’s perfect for students who are doing research on their career or unsure about what they can do with their major.
Larry Gomez
FIU Career and Talent Dvelopment career ADvisor
Career Coach taps into Lightcast’s comprehensive labor market data and uses a customizable CIP-to-O*NET crosswalk – or CIP-to-NOC crosswalk, for Canadian institutions – to connect your programs with careers. It also leverages Lightcast’s proprietary skills library of over 32,000 career-relevant skills, pulled directly from employer job postings.