BUILD PROFILE

Complete fun, visual self-assessments. Your profile evolves along with your interests and experiences.

EXPLORE CAREERS

Explore hundreds of careers, or “Hats,” construct personalized career decks based on areas of interest, and unlock pathways.

CLIMB LADDERS

Engage with “Ladders,” or real-world challenges that provide hands-on career exploration and work-based learning.

CURRICULUM

Use lesson plans, discussion prompts, and group activities to foster collaboration and career thinking.

Winner of the Reach Higher Career App Challenge!

Hats & Ladders is honored to have won the grand prize in the U.S. Department of Education’s Reach Higher Career App Challenge—a 2016 White House initiative led by First Lady Michelle Obama to empower young people to take control of their futures and complete their education beyond high school. The career app challenge called on educators and app developers to propose mobile-based solutions to help students “navigate education and career pathways, and increase the capacity of career counselors to assist students.” Read our full Reach Higher Story here.

Our winning solution featured:

  • Visual, student-friendly content
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Research-based career recommendation engine
  • Alignment with CTE clusters
  • Integrated government data feeds

BECAUSE CAREER EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE

How do you follow a path if you don’t know where you want to go?

Undecided Futures
Colleges & Universities
Potential Occupations
Average Jobs Held from Ages 18 to 48

TEST DRIVE HATS & LADDERS BEFORE ITS OFFICIAL RELEASE

Counselors and Career Educators!

The Hats & Ladders app is currently under development. If you are a school administrator, counselor, or teacher interested in piloting with us in the 2017-18 school year, please give us your contact information, and we will be in touch.

 

RECENT BLOG POSTS

Hats & Ladders Reach Higher Anniversary
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Jul
Still Reaching Higher…One Step at a Time

It’s been exactly one year since the Hats & Ladders team, as one of five finalists in the Reach Higher Career App Challenge, got to present our vision for how mobile technology could bring much needed innovation to career education.  From the start, the challenge spoke to us professionally as game designers who spend a […]

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Feb
School Counselor Week: What Self Assessments Do You Use with Students? #NSCW17

Greetings, career educators and school counselors! Since it’s National School Counselor Week, we decided to share some of the history we’ve uncovered around career self-assessments, particularly because we know how meaningful these types of assessments can be in helping students start to figure out which careers might be a good fit for them. Self assessments […]

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12
Dec
Our new look for 2017!

As you may have noticed, Hats & Ladders has a new website! Since winning the Reach Higher Challenge, we’ve been hard at work building out the “alpha” pilot version of our platform for middle schoolers. Our new web site complements the Hats & Ladders app design and will scale well as we welcome new users […]

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