Got the degree. Now find the work you’ll actually love.

Your first job doesn’t have to define you.
JPTI™ swaps guesswork for a game plan.

Misalignment is expensive. Don’t speed up on the wrong road. JPTI™ is your GPS to roles that fit your values, pace, and potential.

Ignite your passions, prepare with purpose, proceed confidently. Start with the Job Passion Assessment™.

Start with the Job Passion Type Indicator™ (JPTI) Assessment.
This is the first step in discovering your passion-fueled profession.

Clarify your direction

Start with Standard JPTI™ Assessment
Add other Assessments if Advised

Align your passions

CareerzPathfinder™ | Online Workshop
CareerzAccelerator™ | Online Workshop

Make smart choices

CareerzPlan™   | Blueprint
CareerzTrack™ | Track It. Achieve It.

From “IDK” to “Let’s Go”

Purpose + Paycheck

You don’t have to pick between meaning and money. Meaning fuels momentum; momentum earns more. When your work aligns with your values, you bring focus, stamina, and better ideas. That’s exactly what managers reward. JPTI™ shows you the roles where purpose and performance stack.

70%

Employees say their sense of purpose is defined by their work. Reports McKinsey & Co.

79%

Employees are unengaged at work. Download Gallup report.

Employees whose purpose aligns with their organization’s are more productive, resilient, and stay longer. Reports McKinsey & Co

Degree ≠ Destiny

 

Your diploma opened doors. JPTI™ helps you choose the right room.

Avoid the trap of
mismatched careers

Starting your career on the wrong path can leave you feeling stuck, uninspired, and questioning your potential. When work doesn’t align with your values, it drains energy and limits growth. The good news? You don’t have to settle for a path that feels wrong.

Start With The Job Passion Assessment™

Build a career that energizes you

The Job Passion Type Indicator (JPTI) identifies roles that align with your core values and natural strengths. Paired with personalized coaching, this powerful tool bridges the gap between meaning and momentum. No more choosing between purpose and paycheck.

Discover The Right Job, Real You
If the gig feels “meh,” you’re not the problem—misalignment is. JPTI translates who you are into roles you’ll actually like (and grow in).

What You Value Most

Your Core, Sanctioning Values and Character Values

21

Job Passion Types™ Based On Your Core + Sactioning Values

Job Roles

Linked To Positions That Perfectly Align With What You Value Most

1,617+

Job Roles Matched to JPTI™
SOC + Gaming Industry Positions

Helping you turn transitions into triumphs

JPTI™ Helps you Navigate
to a fulfilling career

The Job Passion Type Indicator™ (JPTI) connects what matters most to you with real-world roles, creating a clear path to meaningful work. Personalized coaching builds on these insights, helping you chart a career that balances passion, impact, and financial growth.

See Beyond Skills

Your passions guide the process

Skills may have gotten you this far,
but passion is what will keep you going.

Chart a New Course

You want direction you can trust, not another pep talk. The JPTI™ gives you a clear profile, a short list of matched paths, and three moves to make now.

The Job Passion Type Indicator™ (JPTI)

Navigate your new career with confidence, clarity, and contentment.

Imagine waking up excited for work every morning. That’s the power of the Job Passion Type Indicator™ it connects what drives you at your core to careers where you’ll thrive, stay motivated, and succeed long-term. It’s not just a test, it’s your dream job revealed.

Take The JPTI™ Assessment

Answer key questions about your values, interests, and preferences to uncover your unique career drivers.

Discover Your JPTI™ Type

Discover roles that match your passions and skills, giving you a clear roadmap to your next dream job.

Design Your Passion Career

Transform what you’ve discovered, and build a passion-based career plan that makes every Monday exciting and fulfilling.

Starter Career Stage FAQs

Careerz Group helps Starters find early-career direction, understand what kind of work fits them, and avoid starting down a path that drains their energy. The goal is to help you move from “I need a job” to “I’m building toward work that actually fits.” We also have support resources from coaching to

The Starter stage is for people looking for their first real job, starting over after school or training, entering the workforce, or realizing their current early-career path may not fit.

Start with the Job Passion Type Indicator, also called JPTI. It helps identify your work-related values, motivators, Job Passion Types, and possible role directions before you spend time applying randomly.

Our AI-powered Career Job Search Lab helps individuals turn career direction into job-search execution. Users can build or improve their resume, check ATS readiness, tailor application information to job postings, create cover letters, optimize LinkedIn profiles, track applications, and prepare for interviews.

JPTI helps students and early-career professionals understand what kind of work may fit them before they commit to the wrong job, company, major, training program, or career track.

It identifies the values, passions, and motivators that shape better-fit work, then connects those insights to Job Passion Types and career paths worth exploring. This helps people starting out make smarter first-job and next-job decisions instead of guessing their way into a direction that may not fit.

No. Your first job is a starting point, not a life sentence.

The smarter goal is to choose work that helps you build useful experience, test what fits, and gain momentum toward a better career direction. Early jobs can help you discover what energizes you, what drains you, what skills you want to build, and what kind of work environment you prefer.

You do not need to have your entire career figured out before your first job. But you do need to make your first moves more intentionally. Use each early role as a clue, not a cage.

Before you choose your first job, use JPTI to understand what kind of work may fit you best, so your first step builds momentum instead of sending you in the wrong direction.

Yes. JPTI can help you compare job offers based on fit, not just title, pay, location, company name, or what looks impressive on paper.

It gives you a better way to ask: “Will this role energize me, stretch me, develop me, and move me closer to work that actually fits?”

A job can look good and still be wrong for how you are wired. JPTI helps you look at the work itself, the role expectations, and the career direction behind the offer, so you can make a smarter decision before you commit.

That is exactly what the Careerz Group Starter stage support is built for.

Your degree may open doors, but it does not automatically tell you which room you belong in. JPTI helps you connect your education, values, motivators, and work passions to career paths that may fit you better.

Instead of asking, “What can I do with this degree?” JPTI helps you ask a stronger question: “What kind of work should I use this degree to pursue?” Coaching offers additional assessments to further hone your career plan into a path tailored for your unique personality, skills and interests.

After taking JPTI, you receive a Job Passion DNA Report that identifies your top Job Passion Types, key values, career drivers, and possible role directions.

The report helps connect your results to better-fit career paths, including more than 1,617 job roles across standard occupational categories and specialized gaming-industry positions.

It gives you a clearer way to explore career options based on fit, not guesswork. If you only want to work in the gaming industry, then take the Game Careerz version of the JPTI.

After taking JPTI, you can review your results, explore your Job Passion Types, identify possible role directions, use career-stage resources, attend a workshop, or work with a Careerz Coach to turn the insight into an action plan.

Customer reviews

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Path, Not Panic
“My parents chilled, I stopped doom-scrolling careers, and I picked a lane I actually like. I scored the gig I wanted about 4 weeks later.”

Noah F. | Stowe VT

Gained Clarity & Confidence
“I finally feel like I’m doing work that matters. Careerz Group gave me the clarity and direction I needed to start this new chapter with confidence.”

Rohan P. | Engineer

Role Upgrade
“I  felt totally stuck. This assessment about passion pointed me toward projects that fire me up. Why can I market everyone else but me?!”

Christine T. | Marketing Specialist

Know What Role I’m Born To Do
“I was a soon-to-be MBA graduate struggling to find a role I was passionate about. I highly recommend the JPTI assessment to anyone who is struggling to find their fit. It was pivotal in my journey and helped me understand what I seem born to do.”

Ryan D. | Product Manager

Freedom Found
“I thought I was ‘business or bust.’ Turns out I’m a design and artistic and now I’m  freelancing. Mom’s bummed I’m not an accountant, but this beats working in a cube, and I can set my own hours, pick the type of jobs I want. I can work from anywhere. ”

Conner J. | Freelancer

Don’t settle for the wrong path

The early career years often feel like a maze of uncertainty, with choices that seem misaligned with what you truly value. Choosing the wrong path can leave you feeling disconnected, stuck, and uninspired. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Start Your Journey With Clarity & Confidence

Achieve clarity and reclaim your career

The JPTI™ transforms uncertainty into opportunity with:

  • Clear direction on career paths that align with your passions.

  • Confidence in focusing on key choices that pay off long-term.

  • A proven blueprint for charting your next steps.

  • Reassurance that your experience is an asset—not a liability.

  • Freedom from guesswork, so you avoid false starts and wasted time.

  • Renewed motivation to pursue meaningful, energizing work

  • Reduced financial risk by avoiding costly detours or settling for less

  • Insight into transferable strengths that open doors you hadn’t considered

Align your career with your passion
Find roles where your purpose and performance thrive.
29%

Report “Sunday Scaries,” knowing Monday they go back to work. YouGov

51%

Report they are watching for or actively seeking a new job. Reported by Gallup.com

Career pathfinder workshops help job seekers get on track.

Why Skills-First is Old School

Skills ≠ Career Happiness

At Careerz Group, we help people move from frustration and burnout to fulfillment and purpose. Whether you’re a student, a professional in transition, or nearing retirement, our tools and guidance are designed to help you find work that lights you up, not wears you down.

It begins with our Job Passion Type Indicator™, a science-backed assessment that uncovers your core values, motivators, and unique Job Passion Types™.

From there, you choose your next step:

  • Explore on your own with free resources and career planning tools.

  • Join a group workshop to turn insights into a practical game plan.

  • Work one-on-one with an expert coach or mentor for personalized guidance.

No matter which path you take, we’re here to help you align who you are with the work you do, so you can thrive with purpose and confidence.

Passionate – Dedicated – Professional

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Stop Trading Hours For Dollars
Start Building A Rewarding
Business Of Your Own

Most people never act on their passions, and they pay for it with regret. Passionpreneurship fixes that by turning what drives you into something you own, control, and profit from.

Passionpreneurship isn’t some fluffy buzzword. It’s taking what lights you up and figuring out how to get paid for it. Period. Whether that means launching a business, freelancing on your terms, building a side gig, or buying a franchise. We give you the tools to connect your passion to real opportunity. The best part? You don’t have to start from scratch, we’ll start from YOU.

We turn your skills and experience into a clear roadmap for a self-made Career that pays off with purpose, direction, and results. Want to be your own boss?
Let’s build that roadmap!

You Dream It.
We’ll Help You Do It.
Align passion with profit so your work fuels both your wallet and your soul.
  • Motivation ≠ just money: In GEM’s global study, 40%+ of entrepreneurs in most countries said they’re motivated to “make a difference in the world,” not only income. Country snapshots often show ~50%+ choosing this motive. Source: GEM Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
  • Performance follows fit: Evidence ties passion to greater creativity, persistence, and venture performance—key drivers of growth.
    Source: Harvard Business Review
  • Stick-with-it power: Systematic reviews show passion fuels entrepreneurial persistence, and persistence is positively associated with performance beyond mere survival. Source: Science Direct
  • Team effects: New-venture teams with strong (and well-balanced) passion profiles tend to perform better than low-passion teams. Source: Science Direct