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Find your direction
Career Compass
Not sure what to do after school? Explore your interests, strengths, and real situation — then get career and course directions that genuinely fit, each with a small first step to try.
Pathfinder Edu is a small set of free AI guides for students finishing high school — to explore careers, choose colleges, plan how to pay, and write applications. No app, no sign-up. They work in any AI chat you already have.
Every guide is plain text — nothing to install, nothing to pay. If you can open a chat, you can use it.
Choose a guide below and press Copy prompt. The whole tool is just a block of text.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot — any of them work. No special account, no setup tricks.
Paste the prompt, say "hi", and answer like yourself. There are no wrong answers.
The numbers suggest an order — find a direction, then plan and apply. But use any guide, any time, as many times as you like.
Not sure what to do after school? Explore your interests, strengths, and real situation — then get career and course directions that genuinely fit, each with a small first step to try.
Build a smart, balanced list of colleges to apply to. It weighs location, cost, and program fit, teaches the reach / match / safety method, and shows you where to find the real numbers.
Worried about the cost? Understand every kind of financial aid, work out what fits your situation, build a real search plan — and learn how to spot scholarship scams before they reach you.
Write your college or scholarship essay in your own voice. This coach draws out your story and gives honest, kind feedback — but never writes it for you. The essay stays yours.
Every student deserves a good map — and a little encouragement for the road ahead.