Incomplete response data
Students graduate and go quiet. Survey response rates rarely hit 100%, leaving gaps that make it hard to report confidently on placement outcomes - or know which students still need follow-up.
Higher Education · Use Case
Career Services
Career services teams spend months chasing outcomes data from students, employers, and survey platforms - then weeks cleaning it before a single report can be produced. Prismio shortens that cycle so your team can focus on what the data says, not what's wrong with it.
The problems career services teams run into
Fragmented data sources
Outcomes live in Handshake, survey platforms, SIS exports, and custom spreadsheets. Merging them is manual, error-prone, and has to be redone every reporting cycle.
Inconsistent employer records
"Google," "Google LLC," "Google, Inc." - all the same employer, but not to a database. Normalizing employer names and mapping roles to NACE categories takes hours of manual review.
Reporting under deadline pressure
NACE First Destinations Survey deadlines don't move. When the data isn't clean, teams are forced to publish numbers they aren't fully confident in - or miss the window entirely.
How Prismio helps
1
Bring in your data
- Survey exports
- Handshake or platform data
- SIS or registrar files
- Manual tracking spreadsheets
2
Prismio Nexus cleans it
- Deduplicate student records
- Normalize employer names
- Map job titles to NACE categories
- Flag missing or conflicting outcomes
3
Enrich with external context
- Employer industry classification
- Labor market salary benchmarks
- Geographic placement patterns
- Alumni network signals
4
Report with confidence
- NACE-aligned summary tables
- Program-level breakdowns
- Employer diversity metrics
- Trend comparisons across cohorts
Specific workflows we support
First Destination Reporting
- Track knowledge rate by program, school, or college
- Reconcile survey responses with verified employment data
- Produce NACE First Destinations Survey output files
- Compare outcomes across graduating cohorts
Employer Relationship Management
- Standardize employer records from multiple recruiting systems
- Identify top hiring employers by major or department
- Map industry trends in graduate placement
- Surface employer engagement gaps
Student Outreach Prioritization
- Identify graduating seniors with no recorded outcome
- Segment by program, advisor, or cohort
- Reduce the time between graduation and survey close
- Track response completeness in real time
Institutional Benchmarking
- Align data with NACE and IPEDS reporting formats
- Prepare clean inputs for accreditation documentation
- Compare placement rates across departments
- Support provost and board-level reporting