Career Compass AI: An AI-Powered Career Guidance Platform

The increasing complexity of academic and professional decision-making requires intelligent systems capable of delivering personalized and data-oriented guidance. This paper proposes Career Compass AI, an AI-based career guidance platform designed to generate adaptive and explainable career recommendations. The system processes academic records, interests, aptitude assessments, and resume data to suggest appropriate education streams, career roles, and skill development paths. It utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs), namely Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash, to perform contextual reasoning, skill-gap identification, and resume evaluation. A resume plagiarism detection module ensures originality by identifying duplicated content using Natural Language Processing techniques. Additionally, an AI- powered career mentor chatbot offers continuous conversational assistance and personalized career insights. Experimental evaluation conducted on datasets from students and working professionals demonstrates high accuracy in career prediction, skill-gap analysis, and plagiarism detection, along with strong user satisfaction. The results confirm that Career Compass AI provides an effective, scalable, and future-ready solution for intelligent career planning.