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New features on Lightcast's Alumni Pathways platform will help colleges and universities get more value out of their alumni outcomes data, providing actionable insights into education pathways, career journeys, diversity, and more. 

New Tools to Measure and Improve Alumni Career Success

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GoRecruit makes it easy to customize and share outcomes data from <a href="https://lightcast.io/solutions/education/alumni-pathways" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alumni Pathways</a>.

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The Alumni Pathways platform makes it easy to visualize your students' career outcomes, by program.

“It’s interesting information, but what do we do with it?” When it comes to alumni outcomes data, this is the question many institutions face. In this article, we answer with 6 high-impact ways you can put alumni data to work.

6 Ways to Use Alumni Outcomes Data

Learner Success

<img src="https://www.datocms-assets.com/62658/1685116784-jenna_unm.jpg" width="276" height="258" style="float: right; margin-top: 0; padding: 0 10px;" />As director of career services at the <a href="http://www.unm.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of New Mexico</a> (UNM) and president of the <a href="http://www.nmccee.org/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Mexico Consortium of Career Educators and Employers</a>, Dr. Jenna Crabb has a lot on her plate. But being a counselor at heart (she&rsquo;s a licensed mental health counselor and has two graduate degrees in the subject), she still makes time to meet with students&mdash;students who are looking to their future and wondering how to make their college investment worthwhile. In fact, one of the most frequent questions she hears from students is, What can I do with my major?
In the past, Jenna and her team tried to answer this question by putting together resources based on O*NET and BLS data. This strategy worked for providing a high-level overview of possible program-to-career mappings, but it was time-consuming and couldn&rsquo;t provide information specific to UNM.
Recently though, Jenna began experimenting with the <a href="https://www.datocms-assets.com/62658/1706049338-profile-analytics-factsheet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Profile Analytics</a> module of <a href="https://lightcast.io/solutions/education/analyst" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Analyst</a>, Lightcast's web-based software that provides access to over 100 million alumni profiles and r&eacute;sum&eacute;s in the U.S., with the option to filter by alma mater, current occupation, degree type, and more. With this data, Jenna can see the actual employment outcomes of thousands of UNM graduates.
Now, Jenna uses Profile Analytics to help students expand their horizons and understand the full breadth of career opportunities open to them. For example, she recently ran a report to see all UNM alumni who are employed by the U.S. Forest Service. It showed that the number-one occupation for alumni working at the agency was HR specialist, and the top program of study was business administration.
When Jenna shared this with a student at UNM and asked what stood out to them, they responded, &ldquo;I guess you don&rsquo;t have to have a science degree to work for the forest service!&rdquo;
&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s so cool about this for students,&rdquo; said Jenna. &ldquo;They get to see that there are alumni just like them working at the Forest Service in finance, or HR, or IT.&rdquo;

<img src="https://www.datocms-assets.com/62658/1685128050-forest-svc-profile-list_1-1024x498_unm.png" width="435" height="419" style="float: right; margin-top: 0; padding: 0 10px; border: 2px solid;" />In particular, the U.S. Forest Service was intrigued by the report showing UNM alumni who worked at the agency. By showing not only the number of UNM alumni employed by the Forest Service, but also their job titles, top skills, and city of employment, the alumni data gave the Forest Service a more complete grasp of UNM&rsquo;s contribution to their own workforce and the value of their partnership.
Furthermore, the data is informing the Forest Service&rsquo;s&nbsp;own marketing efforts. As part of their on-campus recruiting process, the Forest Service likes to have student interns present to their peers about their work experience. Based on the new alumni data, the Forest Service plans to expand the range of positions that participate in these events to better reflect the diversity of job opportunities in their organization.

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