This is the hardest early-career market in decades, and nearly everything written about it documents what's broken. Almost no one is collecting what isn't.
The Education-to-Work Study asks the people who see the handoff firsthand, career services leaders, employer relations professionals, and employers, to share what actually worked this year, and compiles their answers into a playbook for the entire field.
The study uses a positive-deviance approach: identifying success in a difficult environment and documenting the practices behind it.
Think of the students from your institution who landed strong outcomes this past year, despite the market. What did your office do that contributed most to their success?
Every participant receives the complete first-edition findings, free, before public release. Founding participants are credited by name and institution in the published report, if they choose, and receive the first invitation to participate in future editions.
Responses are confidential and published only in aggregate. Direct quotes are used only with explicit permission.
The study is conducted by Dr. Alina Okun, DBA, an independent researcher and analyst working at the intersection of the future of work and higher education, and published by Nariway.