NACE Foundation Funding Priorities 2009
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The NACE Foundation supports research on issues related to the employment of college graduates and the corporate and educational organizations that facilitate the process of linking graduates to the job market. For the current academic year, the Foundation has chosen to emphasize several broad issues as research priorities. These priorities are identified below. While these are areas of emphasis, research proposals that address other issues related to the employment of college graduates will be considered for support.
Accountability—Career Services
This involves research into conceptualizing performance metrics to evaluate office outcomes. These outcomes can include student learning objectives, placement programs, services delivered relative to the cost of operations, or other relevant benchmarking objectives.
Value of College Recruiting During a Recessionary Cycle
Should an employer maintain a college relations program in the face of declining revenues and profits? Does maintaining the program position an employer to meet recruiting demands better when the market reverses and revenues and profitability increase? Company examples from past recessionary periods can shed light on these questions and identify the critical components of the college relations program that should be continued even as staffing declines overall.
College Career Services—Employer Relationship
How does the career services-employer relationship have to change to be more effective? What are the parameters of this relationship and how well understood are those parameters by the participants in the process? Research should focus on operational changes in both the practices of employer/recruiters and career center offices that would point to facilitating the networking of employers with graduating students seeking employment.
College Recruiting
What is the effective cost-per-hire of a college recruit versus that of an experienced employee? Research should be directed to the full range of costs involved, including: the operations of the recruiting programs; effective training for the position of hire; retention rates for new employees; and the full range of personnel/compensation costs associated with each type of employee.
