Primary Research Group has published Survey of Career Services Offices in Higher Education, ISBN 978-1-57440-265-0.

This report looks closely at college offices of career services highlighting developments in budgets, staffing, use of student and alumni staff, cooperation with other offices of the college, use of social media, trends in job fairs, and much more.

The study provides useful benchmarking information on fundraising, tracking of student outcomes, student buy in, employment workshops and workshop attendance, internships, career fairs, job boards and number of jobs listed on job boards, number of employers conducting on campus interviews and more. Data is broken out for public and private colleges, by general Carnegie Class, enrollment, tuition level, and for colleges with on or more than one office of career services. The study gives an in-depth view of how American institutions of higher education are helping their students and alumni find jobs and prosper in a difficult job market.

Just a few of the 153-page report's many findings are that:

• Research universities in the sample had one full time career services employee per 1,740 students
• Over the past two years the colleges in the sample have increased mean career services staff size from 6.22 to 6.78 FTE employees
• Private colleges spent 14.2% of career services staff time on helping college alumni
• Nearly 82% of colleges sampled track the percentage of recent graduates who have a job within a certain period after graduation
• Only 6.82% of colleges surveyed track the employment situation of recent graduates by the variable of their grade point average
• Community colleges in the sample gave a median of 25 workshop sessions to students to improve their job seeking skills

The report is available directly from Primary Research Group and from major book and research report distributors such as Amazon, Baker & Taylor, and others. The price of the report is $139; site licenses are also available. For a free excerpt, table of contents, and list of survey participants, or to place an order, visit our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.