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Career information is usually either a wall of government statistics that nobody reads, or a glossy page from a school that wants your tuition. Neither tells you the parts that matter: that the pay starts much lower than the headline figure, that the licensing exam has a pass rate, that the job has a hard side nobody mentions at the open house.

So this site puts the real numbers next to the honest description, one short screen at a time, for free, with no account and nothing to sign up for.

903 careers across Canada and the United States, each broken into 5 parts:

• Money. What you earn and what it costs to get there.
• Education. The exact path from high school to qualified.
• Optional. Things you don't need, but that help.
• Extras. Day to day, pros and cons, where you'd work.
• Factoids. Things people don't tell you.

Every career can be clicked through one screen at a time, read straight down its page, or printed as a one page summary. Around the careers:

• Every university, college and program on its own page. 51 Canadian universities with 2,531 programs, 24 Ontario colleges with 2,230 programs, and 215 US universities with 14,748 programs: what it takes to get in, the courses it asks for, what a year costs, and what graduates earn.
• Two comparers. Up to four careers side by side, and up to four universities or colleges side by side on every program's admission figures, tuition, residence, rent and graduate pay.
• Two program finders. Type your Grade 12 marks and see every program you qualify for at the Ontario universities and the 24 Ontario colleges on the site; in the US, enter an SAT or ACT (the two admission tests most colleges accept) score and a state.
• A deadline calendar for Ontario universities. Pick your programs, from all 1,312, and see the date to apply and every test, portfolio, audition and form on one calendar, each date read on the school's own page, ready to add to your phone.
• Tools for counsellors. Send any comparison, result or page to a student from your own email, with short notes of your own written into the link. Nothing about you or the student is stored.
• Lists, a quiz and 36 guides. Careers ranked by pay, time to train, demand and cost; an eight-question quiz that matches you to careers and says why; guides that answer the questions people bring from social media.
• Every source, checked. Every page lists the sources its figures come from, and the sources pages show the method for each part of the site and a live check of every link.

Pay figures come from the national wage surveys each government runs: Job Bank for Canada, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey for the United States. Training times, costs and licensing rules come from the bodies that actually set them, which means the regulator, the apprenticeship authority or the college, not a third party summarizing them. Programs, required courses, tuition and deadlines come from each school's own pages; official entering averages from the Council of Ontario Universities; US admissions, costs and graduate pay from the US Department of Education.

Every career page lists its own sources by name, with links, and the date the figures were last checked. If a number cannot be sourced, it does not go on the site. Where a government survey does not cover an occupation, the page says so rather than inventing a figure.

The full account, part by part, with the result of checking every source link, is on the sources and methods page.

Today the whole site is free for everyone, with no account, no subscription and no advertising. The plan is to license it to schools and school districts, by quote. Once schools order, the tools and the school and program pages are for licensed schools, and the careers, guides and lists stay free and open to everyone for good. There are no ads on the site and none are planned. If the way the site is paid for changes, this page will say so before anything else does.

Nobody pays to be included, to rank higher, or to be described more kindly. There are no affiliate links to schools or training providers. If that ever changes it will be disclosed on the page where it happens, not buried here.

Careerhelp is made by Vedant Singh, a 17-year-old Grade 12 student in Ontario, Canada graduating in 2027. Everything about the site is his decision: the idea, what gets built and in what order, how each product is formed, the business strategy, the standards for sources and accuracy, and every rule the work follows. He designed the whole working method, from the written instructions and source rules to the checks that fail a build and the record that carries his decisions from one session to the next, and he controls every outcome: he reviews what is produced, answers every message and publishes the site. Claude, the AI model made by Anthropic, works under his direction as his research, programming and personal assistant: it reads the source pages, writes the cards and the code, runs the checks he set and organizes the work he assigns.

Why he built it, in his own words:

The idea for Careerhelp came in Grade 11. I was fast-tracking, so I sat in Grade 12 classes: Advanced Functions, English, Chemistry, Calculus and Vectors, and Business Leadership. Everyone around me was in Grade 12, and every one of them was stressed. They were comparing universities, weighing the programs they had been admitted to, still unsure which career to aim for, and searching for answers across a dozen sites because no single place had them. I was calm, because I had a year to go.

Everyone knows application season is coming, and almost no one starts until the last few months of Grade 12. Then all the stress arrives at once. I started building Careerhelp in September of my own Grade 12 year, so students can settle on a career before Grade 12, and so the ones already in Grade 12 can see a career, its programs, the marks they take, what they cost and what the job pays in one place.

Vedant Singh on LinkedIn

The rules are enforced by the code, not just by intention: a validation program that fails the build when a career has no source, a pay figure sits outside its own range or an abbreviation is not explained, a checked date on every career and school, and a published re-check of every source link. The limits are stated as plainly: a text written by an AI from a source page can misread it, and the review is one person's, which is why every page shows its sources and asks for corrections.

It is independent: not a school, a government service, a university or a recruiter, and it takes no money from any of them.

Wage data shifts, licensing rules change, and a figure that was right last year can quietly stop being right. If something here is wrong or out of date, please say so, including the career and what you think it should say. Corrections are the most useful thing anyone can send. Every one made is listed, with its date, on the corrections page.

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