Optimize Job Placement Outcomes and Student Satisfaction
Facilitate a better student career development experience with a personalized and guided career journey.
TL;DR
We recognize your pain points as leaders of career services at colleges/universities seeking to support your students on their career development journey, ready them for entry into the work world upon graduation, and achieve job placement outcomes.
CareerXray is building a solution that can help you better meet student expectations for career development support, while improving job placement outcomes, with a structured and personalized career journey for students.
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If you would like to learn more about this, please share your email address with us to contact you for an exploratory discussion.
The Problem & Your Role
Career services teams are facing a multitude of pressures to justify tuition with job placement outcomes and to differentiate from the competition: high expectations of students to see the value of their education, outcome-based accountability and competition, achievement of strong rankings and reputation, and employer partnerships.
This emphasis on outcomes is understandable given the increasingly challenging economy that job seekers are facing, which is displacing experienced professionals faster than creating clear new paths. Career services leaders are seeking new and innovative solutions for their students, but many face similar challenges with their efforts:
"They don’t know what they’re good at — and we don’t have time to help them find out." Students often approach graduation without clarity on their interest, skills, and potential career paths. Staffing constraints force career teams to be reactive instead of strategic, resulting in barriers to student access to valuable resources.
"We showed them career pathways, but they still didn’t see themselves in them." Students want examples of “people like me” who made it, as well as help with interpreting labor market data and job titles.
"We had the tools, but the students didn’t use them." You may have invested in a suite of career tech tools, but usage is extremely low. Students can be overwhelmed by the fragmentation: too many tools and logins and not knowing which tool did what.
"We told them what to do, but they didn’t do it." You want students to take concrete steps on their career journey, but even with nudges, follow-through on tasks is low.
"We graduated a class, but don’t know where they landed." Your institution’s data on employment outcomes may be thin and anecdotal success stories only go so far.
What We Can Do: Help Your Students as They Start Their Career Journeys
We're building CareerXray to reduce friction for individuals on their career journey. We can help you expand the value you deliver to your students with a structured, personalized experience that supports the student’s entire journey by:
- Uniquely helping to identify hidden skills that open new career paths
- Providing actionable steps to get feedback and explore and pursue paths of interest
- Offering layers of additional support like advising, upskilling programs, and custom research and job search strategies
This journey can complement and offer connections to resources that your organization currently offers, with content tailored for the unique needs of your student base and employer recruiting.
What Would a Collaboration Look Like?
We currently have a beta version of our solution available and are quickly evolving it to meet the needs of our different user types. Our vision is for CareerXray to be the backbone for career support that can include connections to resources that your organization offers and content tailored for the unique needs of your student base.
So far we have enabled individual exploration and supporting community-hosted pilots that test pieces of this vision. If even one part of this vision clicks with you, please reach out to explore any of the following:
Sharing more about the problems you are facing and exploring how we can be a partner in helping you solve them.
Referring students to our website, CareerXray.com. Much of our support is free, with optional layers of support for a discounted fee. We in turn can refer leads to your website, establish affiliate/CPA relationships, and share data on your students’ journeys.
Exploring a potential pilot of a customized version of our solution, which would offer the following benefits:
- Impact dashboard to track student journeys and inform job placement outcomes reporting
- Input to the design & evolution of our tool, including new features like transition research, market analysis, and networking tools
- Adaptation for your local market, to incorporate relevant employer opportunities
- Market intelligence & data that includes cross-industry analyses
- Founding community/association partner recognition, with priority access to new features and programs