Get Your Students Hired
This is a general discussion forum for the following learning topic:
Setting Up an Effective Career Services Department --> Measuring Your Career Success
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Feedback and data as well as qualitative measures are key to outcomes and is directly related to marketing efforts that foster retention, persistence and enrollment
This module emphasized the value of staying connected with graduates and maintaining accurate job placement and retention data. Beyond meeting state audit requirements, this kind of tracking helps us understand what’s working, identify gaps, and continuously improve our services. Consistently managing this data is key to building a transparent, accountable, and ultimately successful Career Services department that supports both students and institutional goals.
Building relationships with current and past graduates by keeping track of their job placement, asking students for feedback on their experience while searching for gainful employment, keeping a detailed placement log, that includes where the student is working, and other possible opening at that location, using student and employer surveys to gain feedback on placement, graduate performance on the job. ultimately maintaining contact ensures the success of the Career Services Department.
Kelly Fulghum
I have learned that keeping data is vital to the institution. It will help develop our students better from a Career Services perspective. It can also help the institution with getting employers to sit on our board that can help us with ideas on how to develop our students better for the workforce. Alumni can help us develop a plan to help current students find employment and to help us change curriculum in the ever-changing world of nursing by telling us what is changing in the workplace.
Sesiones individuales de asesoramiento de carrera.
Talleres de CV, cartas de presentación y entrevistas de trabajo.
Coaching en desarrollo de habilidades blandas y networking.
I've learned on this module how important is feedback from students, grads, alumni and employers are for enhancing our services and skills that we provide. Keeping track of employers, graduates and placements is a key role for CS.
I learned about the importance of feedback. A school isn't just about providing education and forgetting about their students after graduation. A school needs to continue their relationships with past graduates and in doing so will benefit from many connections and improvements.
Keeping in touch with graduates who are gainfully employed is important. It is equally important to keep in contact with employers; to get feedback about students, as well as getting feedback from students regarding the Career Services Department.
Following up with employers is crucial; this will give an insight into how graduates are doing. This will also notify if any changes need to be made.
Employer relationship building is a major component in continuing to get feedback and employment placements.
I learned how important it is to keep track of your graduates and to get feedback from them. I think the one thing that I learned that I did not know and was impressed by is that some employers will actually offer scholarships to employees. I think this is a great motivator for any graduate who wants to grow in their career field and will encourage outstanding work.
This module reiterated the importance of employer partnerships and relationship building with your students. Employers and Students are the primary people we serve.
I learned the significant impact staying connected with graduates and employers can have on improving our programs and services.
Alumni/Graduate feedback is just as important as current student and employer feedback. It can help the department and institution in updating certain information in curriculum or seminars that departments provide to better suite the needs of the students once they are out in the workforce.
It is important to gain both student feedback and employer feedback to better understand if your program and career services department are helping graduates succeed.
Constructive feedback today is the key to a better tomorrow! If we don't continually evaluate our processes, how can we ever call our institutions competitive for a student's success? Reaching out to all individuals involved is important....from student to graduate to employer. Every level provides unique insights and suggestions for improvement. I look forward to implementing regular check-ins with each population to gain a better understanding of the fluency of our college.
It is important to gather feedback from students, graduates and employers to make sure we are preparing students to succeed in their fields.
I have learned that it is important to gather and track stats from students, graduates, employers, and employment outcomes. It will be difficult to gauge institutional effectiveness without the data to back it up and drive improvement.