Spotlight Online for Career Services Professionals, June 23, 2010
NACE’s 2010 Student Survey shows a strong link between use of career services and a student’s ability to get a job offer.
Results show that, the more frequently a senior used career services, the more likely he/she would receive a job offer. Just under 29 percent of those who received job offers had not used the career center—meaning the remaining 71 percent with offers were career center users.
In addition, the study found that the likelihood of getting a job offer increased with the frequency of use, so that those who used the career center four or more times a semester were more likely to have job offers than those who used it once a semester.
Among those who had used the career center, the most services they were most likely to use were:
- Resume writing/reviewing assistance (used by 70.1 percent of those using career services)
- Career center job listings (66.2 percent)
- Job-search assistance (62.3 percent)
- Career counseling (51.3 percent)
- Internship assistance (51.2 percent)
Resume writing help was not only the most used service, but also the most highly rated in terms of its helpfulness, followed by practice interview sessions (used only by a handful of users), job listings, and individual career counseling.
NACE’s 2010 Student Survey was conducted February 9, 2010, through April 30, 2010. More than 31,470 students representing more than 400 colleges and universities nationwide took part; more than 13,000 of those were graduating seniors. A final report on the study’s findings will be available later this year.