Every screen your students get

Students start by typing a job they have heard of, such as nurse, electrician or lawyer, or by browsing all 447 careers by field. The home page also opens straight into the lists and the university comparer, so a student who arrives with a question rather than a job title still has somewhere to go.

Every career opens on the four facts students ask first: typical pay, how many years it takes after high school, how much demand there is, and whether you need a licence. Under that are plain answers to the questions people actually search, the five parts to click through, and a one-page summary to download and print.

This is the heart of Careerhelp. Each career is split into five parts, Money, Education, Optional, Extras and Factoids, and each part is a few short screens. A student taps the card or swipes to move on, so it reads like a story on a phone rather than a wall of text.

Money shows the pay range from the first year to the top, with the reason for the spread. Education is the exact path, step by step, with how long each step takes and the province's own route where it differs. Extras is a typical day, the pros and cons, and where people in the job actually work. Factoids are the things nobody mentions until you are in it.

The university comparer covers 1,312 first-year programs at all 22 Ontario universities. A student drops in up to four schools, picks a field or searches a program, and sees them side by side. The example below is nursing at McMaster, Queen's, Western and York.

Then the factors that decide where to apply, school against school: the admission average students reported with their offers, how many graduates are working two years later, first-year tuition, how many students come back for second year, how many finish the degree, and how big the school is. The highest and lowest are marked so the differences jump out.

Below that is the exact program at each school, from the school's own pages: the marks it says you need, the marks of students who actually got in, the Grade 12 courses it asks for with their course codes, extra steps such as Casper or a supplementary application with their deadlines, co-op, how long it takes, and what you can major in later. This is the part students usually piece together from a dozen tabs.

Finally, what it adds up to: the first year and the whole degree at each school, with tuition, fees, books, residence and rent after first year. A student types in their average to take off the scholarships every student with that average gets automatically, or switches to living at home.

18 lists answer the questions students ask most: the highest paying careers, careers in demand, careers you can qualify for in two years or less, careers you can do from home, careers that cost under $5,000 to train for, and one for every field. Each card shows pay, years to qualify and demand, so a student can scan a whole field in a minute. A new career lands in every list it qualifies for automatically.

The 12 guides take on what students see on TikTok and YouTube: whether day trading is a real career, how much YouTubers make, whether dropshipping still works, how to spot a make-money-online scam. Each one uses the research and the same sourced figures as the rest of the site, and links straight to the careers it talks about.