Uncover students’ aptitudes and best-fit careers

When students know their aptitudes, they discover a world of education options and best-fit careers.

Aptitude & Career Discovery is the only personalized aptitude-based college and career guidance solution available. Students who understand their aptitudes are empowered. They find relevance and a meaningful direction in school and beyond.

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Improve student engagement

Knowing aptitudes makes the connection between education, career, and life relevant.

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Empower every student

Equalize the playing field to support and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Offer personalized guidance

Help each student discover their own unique pathway for success in school, career, and life.

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Amplify your impact

Support student engagement, work-based learning, connections with employers, and community-building.

Expand horizons with aptitude discovery

Unlock hidden strengths and best-fitting careers

  • Reveal aptitudes through brain games
  • Uncover personal approaches and learning styles
  • Learn about best-fitting group working environments
  • Explore interests through an easy-to-use profiler

Increase student confidence and classroom engagement

  • Engage students in self-exploration in a meaningful way
  • Increase enrollment in CTE courses

  • Meet state education requirements
  • Incorporate emotional social learning into the classroom

Data-driven program investment and development

  • Utilize classroom data to create pathways that meet student demands

  • Access data to guide courses, get funding, improve programs, drive diversity, and more

  • Meet and exceed education guidelines and requirements
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What’s included:

  • number 1 inside yellow circleDiscover aptitudes
  • empty spaceDiscover students’ strengths and how they impact their work and daily life. Get tips for success in a personalized 40-page report.
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  • Number 2 in yellow circlePersonal approach
  • empty spaceHelp students learn how they tackle projects, make decisions, and how this impacts the career role and work environment they will thrive in.
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  • Number 3 in yellow circleWorking with others
  • empty spaceUncover how students contribute to a team and how relationships impact their success. This measurement blends students unique personal, interpersonal, and work data.
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  • Number 4 in yellow circleFields of interest
  • empty spaceStudents' interest-based responses are evaluated and then summarized into the three topmost areas that fuel their spark.
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Why Aptitude & Career Discovery?

Developed by experts

It’s the leading science-backed, aptitude-based college and career platform. More than 7,000 institutions and millions of students across the country use YouScience to plan their future.

Built using innovative technology

Brain games are based on more than 50 years of scientific research on aptitudes. Learn more about the science behind YouScience.

Delivers personalized results

Each student gets a personalized report that surfaces their aptitudes, matching education pathways, including CTE certifications and careers.

Connects to 600+ real-world careers

Students’ results are aligned with 600+ real-world, in-demand career opportunities from O*NET OnLine and the education and training paths to get there.

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Connects students to employers

Students see employers who want their aptitudes and certification for jobs, work-based learning opportunities, apprenticeships, and internships.

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Includes insights and reports

Educators access data to guide students to the right courses and pathways, get funding, improve programs, drive diversity, and more.

Frequently asked questions

What's an aptitude?

An aptitude is an individual’s natural ability to learn or perform in given areas. Aptitudes are not the same as interests, personality, or learned skills, which are environmentally dependent and change over time. For example, someone can’t be interested in something they’ve never been exposed to, but aptitudes are innate and solidify around the age of 14.¹ Someone is good at something that is innate regardless of exposure.

How does this help prepare students?

Once students discover best-fit careers, Aptitude & Career Discovery shows education pathways to qualify for those careers — whether certifications, colleges, or both. They can access YouScience Industry Certifications used by their school in career and technical education (CTE) programs. They also access real employers with in-demand internships, work-based learning opportunities, and jobs who want and need their skills, education, and aptitudes.

What aptitudes does Aptitude & Career Discovery measure?

Aptitude & Career Discovery measures 9 aptitudes that are key to career performance: idea generation, numerical reasoning, spatial visualization, sequential reasoning, inductive reasoning, visual comparison speed, timeframe orientation, vocabulary, and work approach.

Aptitude & Career Discovery also includes five added optional brain games to let users assess their aptitudes for numerical computation, associative memory, hand-eye coordination, visual memory, and pattern memory, and amplify their career matches.

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