Abstract: A networked site or Internet site serving a portal provides a user with a step-wise process for guiding the user through steps and exercises that teach the user how to think about career direction. The user is guided as to how to properly do research to choose the right direction based on a number of factors. Through an interactive user interface, personality and life priority assessment is conducted, with results optionally being stored in a selection database. The user interacts with an industry database and organization structure database, selecting industries and organizations of interest. A reference tools database/research means is optionally provided for learning more about the selected items. Optionally, a career attribute database links information matching careers, courses of study, and colleges, with user preferences selected. An integration engine matches careers in the career attribute database with criteria identified in the selection database reflecting the user's expressed interests.