Built for trade and technical education
Match students to the right trade programme. Reduce drop-out. Improve placement.
RIASEC + Skills Audit screen for every applicant, 200 a month on $199/mo flat. Programme-placement dashboard for admissions. Employer-readiness one-pagers for career services. CTE concentrator reporting included.
In Brief
JobCannon for Vocational and Trade Schools provides career-fit screening for trade-school applicants and employer-readiness assessment for programme completers. The platform serves plumbing, electrical, HVAC, automotive, welding, culinary, cosmetology, and allied-health programmes. Pre-enrolment RIASEC + Skills Audit screening puts the applicant-to-programme fit question before the seat is taken, which is where the eight-to-twelve-week drop-out decision is actually made. Post-completion EQ + Conflict Styles + Work Style assessment produces an employer-readiness one-pager that career-services teams share with placement partners. The platform satisfies state CTE concentrator reporting and Perkins V Indicator 2S1/2S2 measures, removing the need for a separate career-readiness vendor. Student assessments and the programme-placement dashboard run on the Scale tier: $199/mo flat covering 200 applicants a month, or 2,400 a year on annual billing. Multi-campus operators scope under a partnership.
Where vocational schools win
Three measurable outcomes per cohort.
Battery for vocational programmes
Sequenced from application to placement.
Compared to trade-school career tools
For a vocational school with 800 students per year
What you get
Related on JobCannon
Vocational and trade schools are one of twelve audiences on the JobCannon for Business hub; programme-placement tracking across cohorts is built on cohort management, and the programme-quality rollups feeding state CTE reports run on the institutional dashboard.
For Perkins V reporting workflows, the Perkins V 2026 indicators guide covers Sec. 113(b) accountability and the CTE concentrator reporting guide walks through the Sec. 3(12) two-course concentrator definition; for retention work the trade-school drop-out reduction guide is the operational playbook most directors read first.
Vocational-school pricing
Scale tier is $199/mo flat and covers 200 applicants a month plus the programme-placement dashboard. Multi-campus operators scope under a partnership. Past that volume, the Education Licence below prices your whole enrolment per student for the year, assessments uncapped, and adds the full career and skills corpus.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 assessments/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 179+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸All 179+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
Self-serve checkout via Stripe — major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link. Cancel anytime; 14-day money-back on every paid plan. Enterprise via the contact form below.
Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year. Assessments are uncapped inside it, retakes included, and the career and skills corpus comes with it. Multiply your own enrolment by your band and that is the price, before you talk to us.
$3.00 down to $2.00 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that there is no licence to quote: a roll that small is better served by a self-serve plan, and that is the one case where a plan covers a school’s own students — UK schools have the flat whole-school licence at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Request a vocational-school pilot
Tell us your programmes and your placement goals. We respond with a pilot plan within two business days.
Most trade-school drop-out happens in the first eight weeks because students enrolled in a programme that does not match their RIASEC profile or aptitude pattern. JobCannon screens applicants before enrolment with RIASEC and a Skills Audit; programmes with a strong Realistic + Investigative pattern (electrical, HVAC, automotive diagnostics) get matched to students with that profile, while Realistic + Conventional students get matched to programmes like welding, plumbing, or surveying. The screen does not stop anyone enrolling — it puts the mismatch in front of the applicant and the admissions team while changing course is still free.
Skills Audit captures hands-on experience and the Career Guide shows credential pathways that recognise prior learning. Many states allow apprenticeship hours or military experience to substitute for early coursework — the platform highlights these. Returning trades workers often discover they qualify for an accelerated certification track they did not know existed.
After programme completion, students complete a final EQ + Conflict Styles + Work Style assessment that produces a one-page "ready-to-hire" profile. Career-services teams export this with the certificate to share with placement employers. Employers in the trades respond well to these one-pagers because they preview communication style and reliability — the two soft-skill predictors that determine first-year retention in skilled-trade jobs.
Yes. Assessments are asynchronous — students take them on their phone whenever it suits, results sync to the cohort dashboard. Night-school instructors typically use the dashboard during a single 30-minute group review session at week three to surface students who may need intervention.
Yes. Aggregate completion data exports formatted for state CTE (Career and Technical Education) concentrator reporting and Perkins V Indicator 2S1/2S2 measures. The platform satisfies the career-readiness assessment requirement in most state CTE plans without an additional vendor.
Career Match recommends the best-fit careers regardless of what your school offers, then highlights which match careers your school has programmes for. If a student matches strongly to a career your school does not teach, the platform recommends transfer or referral pathways. This honesty improves student trust and your reputation with employer partners.
Each trade in our 2,521-career knowledge graph carries a profile: dominant RIASEC pattern, required Skills Audit profile, typical Big Five (OCEAN) trait fit, and apprenticeship or licensure pathway. Welding maps to a Realistic + Conventional pattern with strong fine-motor and spatial-reasoning skill requirements. HVAC maps to Realistic + Investigative with diagnostic-reasoning emphasis. CNA maps to Social + Realistic with caregiving-empathy and physical-stamina signals. The Career Match output ranks each applicant against your school's actual programme list, surfacing best-fit programmes and flagging poor matches for a counselling call before final enrolment. See /b2b/guides/trade-school-drop-out-reduction-tactics for the full programme-fit methodology.
Yes. For schools running CTE Programmes-of-Study under Perkins V, the platform produces Programme-Quality data that feeds Indicator 2S1 (Academic Proficiency) and 2S2 (Career and Technical Education Programme Quality where applicable, including credential-attainment, work-based-learning, and post-programme placement metrics). Aggregate exports are formatted for the state CTE annual performance report (CAR) and federal Perkins V data submission. The platform satisfies the career-readiness assessment requirement in most state CTE plans without an additional vendor. See /b2b/guides/perkins-v-2026-cte-reporting and /b2b/guides/cte-perkins-v-concentrator-reporting for the full reporting workflow.
JobCannon is the assessment-and-evidence layer; your SIS or admissions CRM holds the canonical applicant and student record. Aggregate exports are CSV-compatible with major vocational-school SIS platforms (Jenzabar, PowerCampus, CampusNexus, Anthology Student) and admissions CRMs (Element451, Slate). Direct API integration is scoped on partnership engagements for multi-campus operators. The Assessment API (Scale tier) lets your CRM pull Career Guide records into the applicant timeline so admissions advisors see programme-fit scores in their existing workflow rather than logging into a second system.
Request a vocational-school pilot
Tell us your programmes and your placement goals. We respond with a pilot plan within two business days.