An interactive map of career clusters, real job titles, and the educational pathways that connect you to them. Scroll down to start exploring.
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Every career site I was handed in high school felt like the same spreadsheet wearing a different skin: a search bar, a list of job titles, a wall of text. Real career exploration should feel like discovery, not paperwork — but these tools were limiting, they hid the information that actually mattered, and they were genuinely hard to navigate. Nothing about them made me want to keep clicking.
What bothered me most was that I could never see how anything connected. A career page would tell you the job title and maybe a salary range, but not which majors or educational pathways led there, which certifications counted, or which other careers in the same career cluster shared the same starting point. Every career path felt isolated, when in reality they overlap constantly. So I built the tool I wish I'd had — one you can actually look at, click through, and watch the connections form in front of you.
Most tools pointed you toward a handful of “safe” careers and stopped there, as if the working world only had a dozen jobs in it.
Salary, required degrees, certifications — the details that actually matter were buried behind logins, PDFs, or just weren’t there at all.
Clunky menus and dead-end pages made it a chore to go from “what is this job” to “how do I actually get there.”
They looked like forms, not something you’d want to explore. Nothing invited you to click one more thing and see where it led.
Every career on the graph belongs to at least one of these clusters — the same framework schools use nationally. Each cluster gets its own bold color, carried straight through to the graph as a thick ring around every node in it. When a career belongs to more than one cluster, its ring splits into wedges — one color per cluster it's part of — so overlap isn't just implied, it's something you can actually see.
CareerGraph is an interactive visualization tool for exploring career clusters, discovering specific job titles, and mapping out the real-world educational pathways required to get there — all in one connected view instead of a dozen disconnected pages.
"Learn More" links on pathway nodes open external references (like Wikipedia or O*NET) so you can always trace a number back to where it came from.
A career cluster is a group of careers that share similar knowledge and skills — the same 16-cluster framework U.S. schools use nationally (Health Science, Information Technology, and so on). CareerGraph uses clusters as the top level of the graph, so you can start broad and narrow down instead of searching for a job title you may not know yet.
A quiz gives you a short list of matches and stops there. CareerGraph is built for open-ended career exploration — every career links out to the majors, certifications, and pathways that actually lead to it, and every one of those links back to the careers and clusters it connects to, so you can follow your curiosity instead of a single recommendation.
Career descriptions and skills come from O*NET, salary and job growth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, university costs and outcomes from College Scorecard, certifications from CareerOneStop, and major/field summaries from Wikipedia — all public data sources, listed in full below.
Yes. CareerGraph is free, with no account required to explore the graph — creating a free account only adds the ability to save specific careers and pathways for later.
This is still evolving. Tell me what worked, what didn't, or what career you couldn't find.
An interactive map of 16 career clusters and 32 careers, each connected to real educational pathways — university majors, certifications, bootcamps, and apprenticeships. Data is sourced from O*NET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, College Scorecard, CareerOneStop, and Wikipedia.