Career Explorer guide

What Career Explorer does

Career Explorer helps you discover technology careers before you commit years to the wrong path.

Use it to:

• Browse career paths (engineering, design, product, data, and more)
• Compare skills and day-to-day work
• Save paths that interest you
• Jump into a related Builder Roadmap

Who it is for

Especially useful for secondary students, university students, career switchers, and self-taught builders. Professionals can still use it to map adjacent skills or specialty tracks.

Recommended flow

1. Complete persona onboarding
2. Open Career Explorer
3. Save 1–3 paths (not twelve)
4. Open the matching roadmap
5. Ship a beginner challenge or course milestone tied to that path

Tips

• Prefer paths that match problems you enjoy solving — not only salary headlines
• Ask Aurora: “I’m interested in X — what should I try this week?”
• Parents can read the parent guide in Student Hub for plain-language context
• If you are undecided between two adjacent paths, keep one primary and one “explore later” bookmark

Career Explorer vs Opportunities

Explorer is for choosing a direction. Opportunities are for applying when you have proof. Do the first before drowning in the second.