Enhancements to Aptitude & Career Discovery

YouScience Enhances Award-Winning Aptitude & Career Discovery with New Dynamic Features

Updated experience delivers deeper personalization, flexible pacing, mobile optimization, and Spanish-language support for greater accessibility and engagement

American Fork, Utah, May 1, 2025 — YouScience, the leading education technology company transforming college and career readiness through its award-winning platform Brightpath, today announced enhancements to its aptitude-based career guidance solution, Aptitude & Career Discovery. These updates further establish YouScience as a leading provider of innovative, data-driven college and career readiness tools for students and educators nationwide.

The enhanced experience is designed to deliver a more immersive, accessible, and personalized journey—empowering students to uncover their unique talents and connect with high-demand career pathways using a validated aptitude tool backed by science.

While the core, psychometrically valid aptitude assessment remains unchanged, the new experience introduces powerful innovations that deepen student engagement, support more learners, and simplify implementation for educators.

Key enhancements include:

Deeper personalization to help students better understand their aptitudes as they go with enhanced UX, including introductory automations and result summaries after each brain game.
More flexibility giving students and educators the ability to pause, save, or resume the aptitude assessment whenever they need. Tablet and mobile experiences have also been enhanced for better performance and usability; however, desktop remains the recommended format.
Greater inclusivity by offering the Aptitude & Career Discovery assessment in both English and Spanish, allowing Spanish-speaking students to engage in their preferred language.

“One of the best parts of the new pilot, from a parent’s perspective, was seeing how quickly my daughter’s mindset shifted after getting the result summary,” said Erin Suess, a parent of a YouScience Discovery user, education career coach, and REA Coaching Pathfinder Program Director. “Having the ability to pause and return to the brain games helped her find the focused time she needed to complete the assessment. And, when she saw her results, it opened her eyes to new possibilities and gave her a more confident, hopeful outlook about her future.”

These innovations are critical at a time when traditional college and career readiness tools—many of which rely solely on interest surveys—are failing to meet the needs of today’s students and the educators who support them. With rising caseloads and demands, 89% of counselors report difficulty delivering personalized guidance, and 91% say traditional interest surveys fall short. Educators need scalable, science-backed tools that deliver real aptitude-based career guidance and help students make meaningful connections between their strengths, interests, and future opportunities.

“Across the country, students are being misled by interest surveys masquerading as aptitude assessments. It’s like using a magic 8 ball to choose your future,” said Edson Barton, Co-Founder and CEO of YouScience. “Interest surveys alone are not enough. That approach doesn’t just shortchange students, it weakens our talent pipeline. The YouScience aptitude tool is a true, performance-based assessment grounded in science and real data. It uncovers students’ natural abilities to increase self-awareness, confidence, and self-efficacy, empowering them to make informed decisions and succeed in both careers and life.”

The enhanced Aptitude & Career Discovery experience reflects YouScience’s ongoing commitment to providing equitable, effective college and career readiness tools that work for every student. By aligning aptitude data with career pathways—and giving educators tools that support both compliance and student outcomes—YouScience continues to set the standard for aptitude-based career guidance and future-ready education.

About YouScience^®YouScience^® is the leading education technology company dedicated to empowering individuals with the data and credentials needed to succeed in school, career, and life. Its award-winning platform, Brightpath, is the only College & Career Readiness solution built for both compliance and impact–powered by scientifically backed aptitude discovery, industry-recognized certifications, and meaningful career connections. By leveraging cutting-edge research, AI, and industry collaboration, YouScience helps individuals uncover their unique talents, validate their skills, and connect with in-demand educational and career pathways. YouScience has served more than 13,400 educational institutions and millions of users nationwide, making it the preferred choice for individuals, parents, educators, and counselors to achieve real outcomes through education and career pathways.