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CareerLight

Career support for WVJC students

Your career support, right in your pocket.

CareerLight gives WVJC students personalized career guidance, practical tools and clear next steps to help turn your training into a career.

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Included for WVJC students.

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CareerLight student app: a personalized career path through Skills & Strength, Career Direction, Work Experience and Set your goals, alongside a role-fit screen showing a 78% match with the skills earned from your coursework.

  1. Know your direction

    Find the careers that fit you.

  2. Build your skills

    See what employers are looking for.

  3. Get job-ready

    Know what to work on next.

  4. Go get it

Why CareerLight

You're training for a career. We're here to help you get there.

You chose WVJC because you're serious about building a better future. CareerLight works alongside the support you already receive from WVJC to help you know what to do next, prepare for opportunities and keep moving toward the career you're working for.

Know your next step

Get personalized guidance based on your program, goals, progress and where you want to go.

Get career ready

Build your resume, prepare for interviews, strengthen your skills and work through the steps that help you become ready for employers.

Find opportunities that fit

Discover jobs and career opportunities that make sense for your training, skills and goals instead of sorting through hundreds of listings on your own.

  1. 1

    Train

    Build hands-on, career-focused skills at WVJC.

  2. 2

    Discover

    Understand where your training and strengths can take you.

  3. 3

    Prepare

    Build your resume, confidence and career readiness.

  4. 4

    Connect

    Explore employers and opportunities in your field.

  5. 5

    Get there

    Take your training into your career.

Your career is the reason you're here.It's the reason we're here too.

Career guidance, anytime

Career questions don't only happen during office hours.

CareerLight gives you guidance whenever you need it. Ask questions about your career, jobs, salary, interviews, your resume or what you should do next — and pick up right where you left off.

  • What jobs can I pursue with my Medical Assisting training?
  • How should I prepare for my nursing interview?
  • What does a respiratory therapist make in West Virginia?
  • What skills should I highlight on my resume?
  • What jobs fit my cybersecurity training?
  • How do I prepare for my externship?

Guidance built around you

It gets to know you — then helps you figure out what comes next.

Your goals
Your skills
Your strengths
The CareerLight student app showing a personalized career path: Skills & Strength, Career Direction, Work Experience, Set your goals and a highlighted new step, with a Lights balance.
Your program
Your progress
Your career direction
Proven competenciesReal workforce & career data
Your personalizednext step

Not a generic chatbot answering random questions. CareerLight builds an ongoing understanding of you and uses real workforce and career information to help guide what comes next.

Your WVJC Career Management team, connected

Technology when you need it. People when it matters.

CareerLight works alongside WVJC's Career Management team, who can help with resumes, interviews, externships, employer connections and your transition into the workforce. CareerLight helps keep that support with you between conversations, wherever you are.

Your WVJC Career Management team

WVJC Career Management
A WVJC Career Management advisor's CareerLight dashboard creating and assigning Journey Steps with Lights rewards, such as “Build Your Resume” and “Attend Resume Workshop.”

Your Career Management team can assign your next steps and reward your progress with Lights.

CareerLight

You

The CareerLight student app showing a new step and a message from a WVJC Career Management advisor: “New step added — please complete the step I assigned to you. We’ll talk after you finish it.”

You get the step, resources and a nudge from your Career Management team — right on your phone.

Your progressCareerLightYour Career Management team
  • Message your Career Management team
  • Get resources
  • Receive reminders
  • Complete assigned next steps
  • Share your progress
  • Get support when you need it

CareerLight doesn't replace your WVJC Career Management team.It keeps their support in your pocket.

Career building that doesn't feel like homework

Your path. One step at a time.

CareerLight turns career preparation into clear, manageable steps. Complete activities, build your skills, earn Lights and see more of your path open up as you move forward.

  • Build or update your resume.
  • Prepare for your externship.
  • Practice for an interview.
  • Strengthen a skill.
  • Earn Lights as you go.
The CareerLight student app home: a game-like career journey with Journey Steps, mastery stars, a Lights balance and quick tools.
32 Lights
Skills mastered

Small steps. Real progress. One career you're working toward.

Built around where you're headed

Your career starts before graduation.

CareerLight works alongside your WVJC education to help you build career-ready skills, prepare for opportunities and take the right steps toward the career you're training for.

West Virginia Junior College nursing students in navy scrubs practicing patient care in a clinical skills lab
NursingPrepare for your next career step, understand your opportunities and build confidence as you move from training toward professional practice.
West Virginia Junior College allied-health students practicing hands-on clinical skills in a lab
HealthcareConnect your hands-on training, externship experience and skills to real career opportunities in your field.
A West Virginia Junior College business administration student working on a laptop in a modern classroom
BusinessBuild professional skills, understand potential career paths and prepare to stand out to employers.
West Virginia Junior College cybersecurity and IT students working at computer workstations in a tech lab
TechnologyExplore roles across cybersecurity and IT, understand the skills employers want and find opportunities that fit your training.

Jobs & opportunities

Spend less time searching. More time finding the right fit.

CareerLight helps surface opportunities that make sense for you based on your training, skills, interests and career goals. Your WVJC Career Management team can also recommend opportunities directly to you, so a job worth seeing doesn't get lost in a long list of postings.

Roles WVJC students train for
  • Registered Nurse
  • Practical Nurse
  • Clinical Medical Assistant
  • Respiratory Therapist
  • Dental Assistant
  • Medical Office Specialist
  • Cybersecurity Specialist
  • IT Support Specialist
  • Business Administration

Real training. Real skills. A real career ahead of you.

Career support that fits your life

School. Work. Family. Life doesn't stop while you're building your future. CareerLight gives you a simple way to keep making career progress from your phone, whenever you have the time.

You're already building your future. Keep moving forward.

CareerLight is included for WVJC students and gives you career guidance, tools and opportunities right from your phone.

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Personalized guidance. Career tools. Opportunities. Support when you need it.

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