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You don't need to know what you want to do.
You need to know where to start.

A 10-minute assessment that maps your natural strengths to career paths you've probably never considered. No work experience needed. No BS personality labels.

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Everyone keeps asking. You keep not knowing.

Teachers, parents, LinkedIn, that uncle at Thanksgiving. "So what are you going to do?" And the honest answer is you don't know. That's fine. Most people who say they know are guessing too.

The problem isn't that you lack direction. It's that nobody's given you good enough information to form one.

"Follow your passion" doesn't help when you have twelve interests and zero clarity. "Pick a stable major" doesn't help when AI is rewriting what stable means.

You don't need more time to think about it. You need better data about who you actually are and where that fits.

Not a personality quiz. A direction.

First Leap connects what you're naturally good at, what actually energizes you, and where those things have real-world market value. In 10 minutes.

Your Strengths Map

What comes naturally to you, what energizes you vs. drains you, and the gap most people never see - being good at something doesn't mean you should build a career around it.

3 Career Paths

Not vague categories like "business" or "healthcare." Specific roles with real entry-level income ranges, education requirements, and what a typical Tuesday actually looks like.

AI-Proof Check

Which of your strengths are uniquely human - the things AI can't replace. So you build a career on solid ground, not on skills that'll be automated by the time you're 30.

Built for the ones who don't have it figured out yet.

Choosing a major

The stakes feel enormous and the options feel infinite. First Leap narrows it down to career paths that match who you actually are, not who you think you should be.

Halfway through a degree

Not sure it's the right one - or graduating soon with no idea what to do with it. First Leap connects what you've learned to where it leads.

Just graduated, now what

Working a random job while figuring out the "real" career. First Leap cuts through the noise and shows you where your actual strengths have market value.

“Is what I'm studying going to be automated in five years?”

You've thought about it. Probably late at night. Probably more than once.

The honest answer is nobody knows exactly how AI reshapes every industry. But we do know this: the careers that last are built on skills AI is worst at. Judgment, empathy, creativity, physical presence, complex problem-solving, human connection.

First Leap doesn't just match you to a career. It identifies which of your strengths are uniquely human and maps those to career paths where you'll have a lasting advantage. Not the careers of 2015. The ones that are growing right now.

That's not something a guidance counselor can do in a 15-minute meeting.

10 minutes. Four phases.

1

Where You Are

Your situation, your education, what kind of pressure you're feeling and where it's coming from.

2

What You Bring

Your natural strengths, what energizes you, what you nerd out about, what you've built on your own.

3

What You Want

Your values, your dream scenario (or your honest "I don't know"), and what you definitely want to avoid.

4

Reality Check

How bold you're willing to be, what's actually stopping you, and the one thing you want to walk away knowing.

Not knowing is normal. Staying stuck isn't.

Here's what nobody says: most 20-year-olds who "know what they want to do" are performing confidence, not feeling it. The ones who admit they don't know are actually further ahead - because they're not locked into the wrong thing.

The difference between someone who figures it out and someone who doesn't isn't talent or certainty. It's information. The right data about what you're wired for, where that has value, and what the first step looks like.

First Leap gives you that in 10 minutes. What you do with it is up to you.

Jon Miksis - founder of Make the Leap

Built by Jon

“I changed careers four times before I was 30. Went from finance to travel to retreat facilitation to building this. Every time, I wished someone had shown me the map instead of telling me to figure it out. First Leap is the tool I wish existed when I was 19.”

Jon Miksis. Entrepreneur. 73 countries. Founder of 4 Companies. 9+ years of coaching/mentorship experience.

Start free. Go deeper if it clicks.

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The Full Assessment

  • 27-question assessment
  • Your strengths map
  • 3 AI-generated career paths
  • AI-proof check
  • Resistance pattern

Free forever.

Career Blueprint - $19

The Full Plan

  • Everything in the free results
  • Full path breakdowns with specific job titles
  • Education roadmaps and shortcuts
  • Income projections with 5-year growth
  • AI-proof analysis for each path
  • First steps you can take this month
  • Parent conversation guide
  • 5 free messages with your AI career coach (knows your full results)

This level of personalization didn't exist before.

A guidance counselor gets 15 minutes and a course catalog. A career coach charges $150-300/hour and takes weeks to learn your situation. Your parents mean well but they're working from a playbook that was written before AI rewrote the rules.

First Leap reads your actual answers - not a template - and generates career paths built specifically around your strengths, your values, your situation, and your constraints. The income ranges are anchored to your education level. The difficulty ratings account for where you're starting from. The first steps are things you can do this week.

The free results would take 3-4 coaching sessions to replicate. The $19 Blueprint goes deeper than most coaches go in a month.

This is what happens when real career methodology meets AI that actually understands context. It's not a quiz with a label at the end. It's the most specific career guidance you've ever received - for less than the cost of the textbook you're not sure you should be buying.

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The 6 Career Identity Types

Which one are you? A quick visual guide to the 6 Strengths Identity types - what energizes each one, which careers fit, and which to avoid. Find yours in 2 minutes.

Your first career decision is coming. Make it an informed one.

10 minutes. 27 questions. 3 career paths you've never considered.