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EMBARK

First Destination Survey + Actionable Analytics

Elevate decision making and demonstrate ROI with career outcomes data from the Embark first destination survey.

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Simplify and supercharge your first destination survey (FDS)

CheckmarkSophisticated data collection and messaging process
CheckmarkAn access point for your FDS data
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Why Embark?

By streamlining the FDS process and automating data collection, Embark liberates career centers from monotonous tasks, allowing staff to focus on higher-value activities while also providing valuable demographic filters to gain insights into serving diverse student populations. 

What does Embark include?

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Go beyond traditional FDS data

Understand the value of a degree and identify high-impact practices

Traditional FDS questions focus on the basics: Career outcomes rate, first job or further education, salary, employer, etc.

These data points are foundational, but not sufficient. Today's institutions need deeper, more holistic insight into how alumni think about the value of their education, and specific practices they identify as essential to their post-college success.

To provide this, Embark includes 14 questions from the National Alumni Career Mobility Survey (NACM). These questions add critical depth to your FDS findings while laying the groundwork to track trends over time if you choose to deploy the full NACM five and ten-year career mobility surveys.

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Achieve your first destination survey goals with Embark

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Branded email messaging campaign

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Lightcast career profiles data

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Data cleaning and integration

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Response rate updates

HR Tech Solutions

Export data to submit to NACE for benchmarking

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Campus summary report (all questions included)

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Export demographic filtered view of dashboard to PDF

See for yourself.

Wondering what Embark survey results look like? Our team is happy to walk you through an example dashboard and answer any questions you have. Just reach out, and we’ll be in touch soon.

Available in two tiers

Get all the data you need, and nothing you don't, with the Embark tier that's right for you.

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Tier 1: Embark Light

    3 custom questions

    Survey undergraduate OR graduate students

    Results summary and wrap-up meeting with data team

    1 results summary report

    Standard (FDS and NACM core) Dashboard

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Tier 2: Embark

    10 custom questions

    Survey undergraduate AND graduate students

    2 results summary and wrap-up meetings with data team

    2 dashboards (Standard Dashboard from Tier 1 + internal dashboard with 3 custom questions)

    Curated campus highlights in slide deck format

Wondering which tier is right for your institution?

We'd love to learn more about the work you're doing and explore how our alumni survey solutions can help.

book a demo

Embark was developed by the Career Leadership Collective to be the premier first destination survey solution for higher education. It is now part of Lightcast’s suite of data-driven solutions powering learner career success. 

Lightcast and the Collective maintain a strategic partnership to serve the alumni tracking and career-readiness needs of higher education.