Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Ibrahim, co-founder of CareerLab. My co-founder Sanan and I are UW-Madison seniors who collectively switched majors 4 times and wasted years figuring out what we wanted to do. **The problem we're solving:** 52% of college graduates don't work in jobs that require their degree. Yet they spend 5.7 years on average and $156K earning that degree. Why does this happen? Students choose careers without ever TESTING the actual work. They rely on: ❌ Personality quizzes (too generic) ❌ Career Advising (not relatable, or even credible) ❌ What sounds prestigious (not what they'd enjoy daily) We interviewed 40+ undecided students and kept hearing: "I thought finance would be interesting. Now I'm a year in and I hate it." **What we built:** CareerLab lets you test careers through hands-on tasks BEFORE you commit: - Build financial models (finance) - Debug real code (software engineering) - Analyze strategy cases (consulting) - Clean datasets with Python (data science) - Write product specs (product management) You rate each task, our AI learns what you actually enjoy, and recommends careers based on reality - not assumptions. **Why it's different:** 1. Multi-career testing (compare 2-3 careers simultaneously) 2. AI learns from your self-reflection (not static one-time assessments) 3. Reality-based (includes the boring/frustrating parts of work) 4. Built by students who lived this exact problem **Current stage:** ✅ Live product with first UW-Madison cohort ✅ 300 professor-vetted resources ✅ Free to try (freemium model) **What we'd love feedback on:** - How do we reach more undecided freshmen at scale? - What marketing channels work best for student-focused products? - Any advice on getting universities/orgs to pilot CareerLab with their students? Thanks for checking us out! Happy to answer any questions 🚀 Try it free: thecareerlab.live - Ibrahim & Sanan

CareerLab

Career exploration through hands-on tasks

Career exploration through hands-on tasks