Notes on career readiness, placement and what institutions can measure

Writing from SkillDrift on measuring career readiness, running placement at cohort scale, and what universities and career centres can act on before graduation.

28 October 20265 min read

How to measure graduate employability before students graduate

How a career centre can measure graduate employability while students are still enrolled, starting from what employers in its own market ask for now.

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22 October 20264 min read

A career readiness assessment and a job readiness score answer different questions

A career readiness assessment, a job readiness score and an employability skills assessment answer different questions. Here is what each measures, and what to ask.

20 October 20264 min read

A readiness score is only useful if it can go down

Most readiness numbers only go up, so they never warn a career centre in time. Here are three things a useful readiness score has to do.

15 October 20269 min read

Most fresher jobs never reach campus. Here is how to get your students to them

We read over 6,000 fresher job postings in Singapore, seven Indian cities, the UAE and the US. Most never reach a campus. Here is where students without a campus offer can go, and how your office can get them there.

13 October 20265 min read

Your career centre serves more people than the placement rate counts

Exam takers, working adults and students in careers courses now use the career centre too. The placement rate was never built to count them.

8 October 20265 min read

What the Graduate Outcomes survey measures, and why it arrives too late to act on

Graduate Outcomes surveys graduates about 15 months after they finish, and the results arrive later still. What it measures, and what to add to it.

6 October 20266 min read

Two conversations that never meet

Students cannot say what they are short of, and placement heads cannot say who is at risk. Why the two conversations never meet, and what would join them.

29 September 20266 min read

By the time you know the placement rate, you cannot change it

The placement rate is measured after the students in it have gone. What a career centre can measure early instead, and what that measurement has to do.

14 September 20266 min read

What a career centre can see in week one, and what it cannot

Week one of a deployment gives a career centre a real map, not a finding. What the first week honestly shows, what it cannot, and why the limits matter.

8 September 20265 min read

Career Launchpad: what changes when a university can measure readiness across a whole cohort

There are two conversations about employability on every campus and they never meet. What changes when an institution can measure readiness across the whole cohort while there is still time to act.