2024 CAREER READINESS REPORT: 

A look at how students use the career services office

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Career Services

Equip yourself with the data needed to tailor your services and outreach, ensuring every student can benefit from what you offer.

Employer and Recruiters

Understand what today's students are looking for in career support, helping you connect more effectively with potential candidates.

Educational Leaders

Discover the crucial role of career services in student satisfaction and success, and identify how your institution can further support these essential functions.

 

In a landscape where career readiness is more crucial than ever, understanding the student perspective can significantly shape the future of career services.

Symplicity's comprehensive survey, conducted across 166 schools with over 1,400 participants, dives deep into the current trends and needs of students interacting with career services offices.

The insights from our survey are tailored to help professionals in career services, recruitment, and higher education administration make informed decisions that can positively impact student career readiness and outcomes.

We explore: 

  • How often students are utilizing career services and which services they value most.
  • Insight into the effectiveness of career services from the student's viewpoint, highlighting areas of strength and opportunities for enhancement.
  • How career services are meeting the needs of various student groups, including those with disabilities and first-generation college students.
Don't miss out on these critical findings that could redefine your approach and enhance your strategies.
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Methodology

1,432 students across 166 schools  in the U.S.

were surveyed by Symplicity between October 13 through November 15, 2023. All students surveyed are part of the Symplicity Career Services Manager (CSM) network. The majority of survey respondents are currently attending a four-year institution (93 percent) with 7 percent attending a two-year, community college, or technical college. Additionally, 35 percent of survey respondents identified themselves as a “first generation college student.”

Symplicity CSM empowers higher education institutions with the right tools to develop career-ready graduates. 

For more than 20 years, Symplicity's integrated products have solved the challenges of multiple vendors and technology tools used in different departments, IT inefficiencies (data integration, training, and data security), students having multiple systems to log into, and departmental end users using different tools for different situations and variation from one campus to the next.

 
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