Welcome Schools and Agencies!

Welcome schools, agencies, and universities! We are currently accepting registration for the 2009-2010 academic year. Find out about The Career Project, how to register, obtain our questionnaire and the rest of your most Frequently Asked Questions below.

          What is The Career Project?

          Can I use The Career Project Questionnaire for my class? Where can I get it?

          If it is free, why do I need to register my school?

          I want to register my school, how do I do that?

          How do you recruit mentors?

          How do you screen them?

          I have seen grammar errors on the profiles, will these be fixed?

          If we register our school how would it work?

        What if we have alumni or students that no longer have a working school email address?

          Will our student's contact information be protected and confidential?

          What information we will provide your school with if registered

          Disclaimer & General information

What is the Career Project?

The Career Project is an interactive career profile database that allows students and job seekers a personal and uncensored look into thousands of real careers and jobs through the eyes of the people who work them. Each career profile has three sections; an extensive interview with the participant about their job, a detailed personal account of an average day on that job, and a question and answer section titled "Ask Me" where you can ask each participant any additional questions about their career.

Can I use The Career Project Questionnaire for my class? Where can I get it?

The Career Project Questionnaire is now available for educational and personal use! It has been popular with our younger students to use it for career day or any assigned career research project. Please email info@thecareerproject.org and we would be happy to send you The Career Project Questionnaire.

If it is free, why do I need to register my school?

The profiles are currently available for your use, free of charge. NEW(3/2009) Within the year access to view the profiles will require registration. Currently we only charge a fee to allow users to directly contact and question our mentors on the "Ask Me" feature of the profile. Many schools have found the direct question feature important for their students. The ability to ask mentors questions in an anonymous safe environment has proven invaluable to students and furthering their career journey.

How do I register my school?

Please email info@thecareerproject.org or use our feedback form on the Contact Us page. List your school, population, who you are and your email and phone number. We will work with schools individually to come up with a plan that is cost effective.

How does The Career Project recruit mentors?

The Career Project began as a grass roots effort! We started by contacting family, friends and co-workers in a variety of fields and word of mouth quickly spread across the United States. Once a mentor's profile has been verified as complete we compensate our mentors with specialty coffee cards. We are proud that we have thousands of profiles of mentors from all walks of life in hundreds of different professions. We add 200-300 profiles monthly of only quality, complete profiles.

How do you screen them?

The director has the final approval regarding all profiles. We do not accept profiles that do not meet our criteria; criteria includes but is not limited too, participants being at least 23 years of age, having at least an associate degree or having worked a minimum of three years and worked at least 25 hours per week in their chosen profession. We do require mentors to use their work email, and if they do not have one, they must provide a contact phone number for work verification. To register as a mentor please visit www.TheCareerProject.com.

I have seen grammar errors on the profiles, will these be fixed?

We do not alter the mentor's content. We do not want to alter their voice, message or information in any capacity. This includes spelling and grammatical errors. We do ask them to review their profile before submitting it to be live on The Career Project.

If we register our school how would it work?

Students must use their school email address to register. They will have to confirm this email address via a confirmation email that is automatically sent after registering.

We will list your school in the section titled "Students." Students can view the list to see if their school has free registration. Please contact us if there is any conflict.

You may tell your students about The Career Project in any way you see fit. It is not mandatory to list The Career Project on your career center’s site or list of resources, but we do find it is the best way to let your students know we exist and are available to them for free.

What if we have alumni or students that no longer have a working school email address?

We will provide your school with a password that your student will email us direclty and we will manually approve their registration.

Will our student's contact information be protected and confidential?

The Career Project will not rent, sell or lease your student's personal and or contact information. Only their statistical data will be used. This include gender, age, and geographic location. Eventually we will offer a monthly newsletter. No advertiser or outside party will ever have access to your student's information.

We will give you:

1. A Semester report that includes the name and email of every student who registers from your school.

General Disclaimer:

The Career Project is a wholly owned by the 13th Grade, LLC (hereinafter the “13th Grade.”) The Career Project is a database of thousands of real people career profiles in hundreds of professions.
1. The 13th Grade will not rent, sell or lease your student’s registration information.
2. The 13th Grade will use statistical data such as age, gender and geographic location for advertisers
3. Please be advised that there will be an upcoming newsletter in the spring. It is an optional feature for each student and as such, each student may unsubscribe at any time.
4. The 13th Grade will not be held liable for any interaction of any kind outside the use of this website. The 13th Grade will prohibit a student (a “User”) and a Mentor from asking each other for any kind of personal contact information. If a User or a Mentor relays any personal information the 13th Grade will do their best to notify you, and immediately cancel that User’s registration on the site.
5. You agree to indemnify and hold The 13th Grade, LLC and it's associates, employees, partners and licensors harmless from any claim or action or demand, including reasonable attorney fees, made by a User from your school due to or arising out of any content submitted, posted, transmitted or otherwise available by a User from your school through the service, the User’s use of the service, the User’s connection to the service, the User’s violation of the Terms of Service, or a User’s violation of any rights of another.
6. You further agree to indemnify and hold The 13th Grade, and it's associates, employees, partners and licensors harmless from any claim or action or demand, including reasonable attorney fees, made by a User from your school due to or arising out of any and all conversations (either via email or telephonic) or any meetings between a Mentor and a User, from your school, of the this service outside of the scope of this site. The 13th Grade is not responsible for any meetings held between parties outside this Site.

General Information

Entire Agreement. The Terms of Service (“TOS”) constitutes the entire agreement between you and The 13th Grade and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and The 13th Grade with respect to the Service. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other of The 13th Grade services, affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.
Choice of Law and Forum. The TOS and the relationship between you and The 13th Grade shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and The 13th Grade agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of New York, New York.
Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of The 13th Grade to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect.
No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your The 13th Grade account is non-transferable and any rights to your Career Project ID or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.
Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.