Abstract: The disclosure provides for generating an adaptive career pathway for an individual. An apparatus is provided that includes at least one processing unit to: (A) receive data indicative of two or more of an educational level, a skill level, a personality metric, a residence location, a score in an educational course, a score in a vocational course, a job location, and a skill set selected by the individual; (B) compute an assessment vector associated with the individual based on the received data; (C) perform a GAP analysis to compare the assessment vector to a database of job taxonomy vectors, wherein each job taxonomy vector comprises data indicative of deconstruction parameters associated with a specified job; and (D) classify the individual, based on the GAP analysis, according to at least one of a coursework recommendation, a career pathway recommendation, and an employability score.