Career E-Sandbox
Give students a better way to explore careers.
Students want career confidence before making costly commitments. Myrimaven builds the next generation continuous career exploration infrastructure connecting people, education, and the future of rapidly-changing work—not another generic career test or chatbot.
Program
Career Exploration
Ongoing
2026
Writing
60+ Blog Articles
What Is the Career E-Sandbox?
The Career E-Sandbox takes user inputs and gives users visibility into career paths for their profile. It is designed to guide students by considering their personality and preferences using large language models (LLMs) to process inputs and deliver career suggestions based on users' individual profiles.
Unlike other platforms, it is an approach that integrates multiple perspectives or trade-offs to build a user's profile and supports interactive exploration of careers. It enables productive friction, reflection, sense-making, and critical thinking through comparison of conflicting recommendations and reasons why careers are recommended or not recommended to help narrow down choices.
To scale this conceptually differentiated product design and educational philosophy, 20 students at multiple post-secondary institutions are currently engaged in work-integrated-learning projects related to the Career E-Sandbox.
The Problem
Many post-secondary students face uncertainty regarding their current career or program trajectory. This often stems from misalignments related to personality or preferences.
50% - 70%
of students, switch majors at least once.
25%
of graduates, would select a different program.
Effect on Students
Students that follow the wrong career path may experience challenges with:
1. Wasted Time
2. Draining Money
3. Burnout
4. Mental Health
5. Graduating Without a Clear Direction
Our Solution
The Career E-Sandbox is a web application approach that guides students by considering multiple perspectives including their personality and preferences, and helps narrow down career choices.
It is a sandbox (not a test) that focuses on the career exploration problem (not every problem), and it is a path to self knowledge.
"This application is a great way to explore your different career options and discover your strengths and how they could be used in the workforce. Really a tool worth trying!" -Valeria Rusnak
Bring the Career E-Sandbox to your students, career services team, or career education program.
Our Approach
1. Designed with a Sandbox Philosophy
A sandbox lets users experiment. Users should be able to change inputs, try different assumptions, compare scenarios, revisit previous explorations, and see what happens when something changes. This makes career exploration more like experimentation than examination.
2. Critical Thinking and AI Literacy
The Career E-Sandbox increases AI literacy by making the mechanics, assumptions, variability, and limitations of AI recommendations visible to users. Rather than positioning AI as an authoritative source that produces the right career, the sandbox lets users experiment with inputs and compare how different systems respond.
3. Structured Environment for Sense-Making
Unlike a career test or a job board, the Career E-Sandbox is infrastructure that supports high-stakes long-term career decision-making. It offers a structured environment to reflect, make sense of best matches, potential mismatches, adjacent careers, and unexpected careers for more comprehensive exploration.
Blog Posts
Learn more about the Career E-Sandbox from our blog posts.
