About Career Compass

Career Compass helps students see the job before they pick the education that leads to it. Every role on the site is broken down the same way: an hour-by-hour day, the skills that actually get used, the study route in your country, and a fifteen-year pay curve instead of a single starting-salary number.

Why it exists

Most young people choose a programme from a course catalogue: a title, a list of modules and a credit count. Almost none of that describes the work itself. Angelica Lundqvist started Career Compass after watching students in her own circle commit three to five years and significant tuition to a field they had never seen anybody do for a single working day.

The site answers the questions people actually ask at seventeen: what will I do between nine and five, will I be alone or on a team, can I do it in English if I move abroad, what do I earn in year one and in year fifteen, and where do I apply?

How we build the content

Every career profile is authored in-house from national statistics offices, collective agreement pay scales, public sector salary tables, employer job postings and published labour-market forecasts, then reviewed and edited by a human before it goes live. Salary figures are modelled as gross monthly pay and converted between the 36 supported countries with a documented method you can read on our methodology page.

Language tools and drafting assistance are used in production, the same way a newsroom uses a CMS. Nothing is published without editorial review, and every figure carries the context needed to judge it.

How it is funded

Career Compass is free for students. It is paid for by advertising and sponsored placements, which are always labelled as such. Advertisers have no influence over which careers we cover, the salary figures we publish, or the schools and portals we recommend. We do not take commission for sending applicants to a specific institution.

A note from the founder

Varför jag skapade detta

Hälsning från Angelica

Arbetar inom HR

Hej och välkommen! Jag är så glad att du har hittat hit.

När jag själv skulle välja karriärväg önskade jag ofta att det fanns bättre vägledning. Det hade kunnat spara mig ett och ett halvt år på "fel" utbildning, och jag kanske till och med hade betalat av mitt studielån vid det här laget!

I dag arbetar jag med HR och brinner verkligen för att hjälpa människor att få ut det mesta av sitt lärande och sin livslånga utveckling.

Världen runt omkring oss förändras ständigt, vilket innebär att råd och data aldrig kan vara relevanta för alltid. Min förhoppning är dock att den här webbplatsen kan ge värdefull vägledning och inspiration när du navigerar bland alla spännande möjligheter och val som ligger framför dig.

Oavsett vilken väg du väljer önskar jag dig allt gott på din resa.

Angelica

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