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Career Navigation & Transition Suite · 2026 Edition

Discover who you are.
Design where you're going.

A scientifically validated, developmentally adaptive assessment ecosystem for primary schools, secondary schools, universities, career centres, parents and working professionals — powered by IIOP's AI Career Coaching Expert.

4
Adaptive assessments
27,800+
Normative sample
18
Countries
Four learners across life stages — primary, secondary, university and professional

Built to the standards trusted by psychologists, testing bodies & ministries of education

APA · AERA · NCMEStandards for Educational & Psychological Testing
BPSBritish Psychological Society · Test Registration
ITC GuidelinesInternational Test Commission · Adapted Testing
ISO 10667Assessment Service Delivery in Work & Organisational Settings
EFPA Review ModelEuropean Federation of Psychologists' Assoc.
GDPR · NDPREU & Nigerian data-protection compliant
WCAG 2.1 AAAccessible for every learner, every ability
The evidence base

Chosen by 0+ schools, universities & career centres.

Built by an international team of chartered occupational psychologists, psychometricians and career researchers — normed across 18 countries.

0+Normative sample
0+Years combined I/O expertise
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0%AERA / APA / NCME aligned
0Age-adaptive instruments
0Peer-reviewed frameworks
The problem we solve

Most people choose careers by accident.
We help them choose by design.

Career decisions made at ages 14, 18 and 35 shape a lifetime of income, wellbeing and impact — yet fewer than 1 in 4 students, graduates or mid-career professionals ever receive assessment-driven guidance. The IIOP Career Suite closes that gap with four psychometrically validated instruments spanning ages 8 to 55+, each paired with an AI Career Coaching Expert.

A lifespan pathway

One continuous journey — from playful discovery to purposeful reinvention.

Every assessment adapts language, cognitive load, item format and interpretation to the learner's developmental stage. Reports are age-appropriate; the science underneath is world-class.

Adaptive by design

The same scientific spine — expressed differently at every life stage.

Reading level, item format, interpretation, recommendations and coach persona all evolve as the learner grows. That's how a child of 9 and a professional of 49 can share one continuous career narrative — one that is understood, valid, and actionable at every step.

Reading level
Grade 3 pictorial → adult analytical.
Item format
Illustrated forced-choice · drag-sort · Likert · situational · rank-order.
Interpretation
‘Superpowers’ → aptitude & fit → decision self-efficacy → identity reconstruction.
Recommendations
Clubs & activities → subjects & universities → majors, internships & jobs → pivots, upskilling & entrepreneurship.
Coach persona
Friendly guide → mentor → career strategist → executive career architect.
Flagship innovation

The IIOP AI Career Coaching Expert™

Every assessment is only as valuable as what someone does with it. That's why every IIOP career assessment includes an invitation to a post-assessment coaching journey with our AI Career Coaching Expert — an assessment-literate, psychometrically grounded coach available on chat, 24/7.

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Step 1
Debrief

The coach reviews your report, checks understanding, and clarifies the parts that matter to you.

Step 2
Development plan

Together you co-author a bespoke plan — student, graduate or professional.

Step 3
Implementation coaching

Chat and voice coaching on how to actually execute your plan.

Step 4
Portfolio

Curated resources and an exportable Career Portfolio you can share.

Built for the people who guide careers

One suite. Every stakeholder in the decision.

Schools & Career Centres

Cohort dashboards, subject-choice alignment and parent-ready reports — from primary exploration to university placement.

Higher Institutions

Course-fit mapping, employability profiling and graduate-outcome forecasting.

Parents & Learners

Plain-language reports that translate strengths into concrete next steps — plus multi-country university matching.

Employers & L&D

Identify transferable competencies and internal mobility pathways. Support career-transition programmes at scale.

Coaches & Psychologists

White-label reports, norm-referenced scoring, and evidence-grade psychometrics.

Governments & NGOs

Youth-employment and workforce-development initiatives with equity dashboards.

Journeys

Four lives. Four decisions. One suite.

Age 15
Amara · Lagos

Uses Career Explorer™ to map her interests, aptitudes and personality to top science courses across Nigeria and the UK, plus a two-year Preparation Plan.

Age 21
Daniel · Nairobi

Career Navigator™ reveals a strong protean identity, high curiosity and confidence. The Coach triangulates Product · UX Research · AI Ethics as top matches.

Age 39
Priya · London

Career Reinvention™ helps her pivot from banking into climate finance — with a 6-month upskilling roadmap and a portfolio-career plan.

Age 54
Michael · Abuja

Retiring naval officer designing an encore career. His Service anchor is dominant. Coach triangulates consultancy, lecturing and NGO leadership.

Featured & referenced in

BusinessDayThe Guardian EducationTechCabalAfrican BusinessTES · Times Educational SupplementHR Grapevine
Advisory board

The people behind the science.

A cross-continental board of chartered psychologists, psychometricians and career-development scholars shapes every item, norm and narrative.

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Anthony Alagbile
President & Managing Psychologist · IIOP

Chartered Occupational Psychologist (British Psychological Society). First Class Honours in Psychology; MSc Organizational Effectiveness, Development & Change, University of Delaware. Principal architect of the IIOP Career Suite.

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Prof. Gail Townsend
OD Chair & Faculty Advisor

Professor of Organizational Development & Change, University of Delaware. Global HR Business Partner at W. L. Gore & Associates. Advises on adult career-transition frameworks.

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Dr. Joseph Odunsanya
Chief Psychometrician

PhD Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia. MSc Industrial/Organisational Psychology, University of Ibadan. Leads item response theory, differential item functioning & fairness auditing.

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Smriti Goel
Career Coaching Practice Lead

18+ years across Asia, Middle-East & Africa. Executive coach and L&OD strategist — designed the AI Career Coaching Expert™ coaching protocol and quality rubric.

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Tomas Drunkenmolle
Behavioural Science Advisor

Managing Partner, MBC Ltda. (Brazil). Applies cognitive & behavioural sciences to executive mentoring and career-decision self-efficacy at mid-life reinvention.

AU
Dr. Amaka Uzo-Peters
K-12 & Youth Development Advisor

Developmental psychologist. Advises on age-adaptive item design for the Career Explorer Junior™ and Career Explorer™ instruments, ages 8 to 17.

What educators, psychologists & parents say

Trusted at every life stage of the decision.

"For the first time, our Year 11s walked into subject-choice interviews with evidence — not guesswork. The parent-friendly reports moved the whole conversation forward."

Ngozi Adeyemi

Director of Sixth Form & Careers

Chrisland Schools Lagos, Nigeria
94% subject-choice confidence

"The developmental adaptation is what sold us. A single instrument would never work for our 9-year-olds and our finalists — this suite meets each cohort where they actually are."

Dr. Priya Ramakrishnan

University of Warwick Career Services · Coventry, UK

"As an I/O psychologist I evaluate a lot of tools. IIOP's psychometric rigour — Holland, Schein, Savickas, PsyCap — is genuinely world-class, and the AI coach doesn't overreach the data."

Prof. Elena Vasquez

Talent Metrics Consulting · Barcelona, Spain

"My daughter finished her assessment on a Sunday afternoon and by Monday we had a coherent plan — universities, subjects, activities. That's rare."

Michael Osei

Accra International School · Accra, Ghana

Free Resource

The Career & Course Atlas

A curated repertoire of 1,000+ careers — traditional and emerging — and the 400+ courses, degrees and certifications that lead to them. Free to download, share and print.

  • 30 clusters from Computing & AI to the Skilled Trades
  • Emerging roles: AI ethicists, climate migration planners, longevity physicians…
  • Courses, apprenticeships and chartered exams for each cluster
Why we're giving it away

Because a repertoire is only step one.

The Atlas shows what's possible. Our adaptive assessment shows what fits you — your interests, aptitudes, values and stage of life — with matched courses and universities in your country and an AI Career Coach to plan the next 90 days.

1,000+
Careers
400+
Courses
30
Clusters

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