Our Graduates

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Our Graduates

• UNC Charlottes Class of 2001 Post-Graduation
  Survey
• and the
• University Career Center

2001 Survey Results Session April 25, 2002
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• Welcome
• and
• University Career Center
• Staff Introductions

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Agenda

• Presentation of the 2001 Post-Graduation Survey
• Future Plans for the Post Grad Study
• Campus Professional Updates
• UCC Usage, Career Prospector Program, Discover,
  Career Moments
• Evaluation

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Uses of Post-Graduation Survey

• Faculty / Staff / Administration/SACS
• Students
• Alumni
• Employers (current / potential)
• Parents
• Prospective students and their parents
• NACE and other associations

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Data Collection Method

• Questions 42
• 4 mailings to August 2000, December 2000 and May
  2001 graduates
• 954 or 32.34 return
• Surveys mailed 3-12 months after graduation
• 6th survey of all 3 graduating classes

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Data Collection Method

• 1st 3rd mailings included full survey
  materials, introduction letter, etc.
• 2nd and 4th mailing reminder postcard with an
  on-line survey option
• 654 (68) responded on-line vs. 70

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Responses

• 45 3.4-4.0 GPA
• 40.6 Male
• 59.4 Female
• 79.3 Caucasian
• 20.6 Master/PH.D

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Highlights

• 94.4 Employed or in graduate school
• 79 Education adequately prepared
  them to enter their chosen field
• 89.7 Obtained position within 6 months
• 82.2 Position related to study
• 82.2 Satisfied with position

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Experiential Learning

• 57.1
• Co-op, 49ership, Internship (for credit),
  Community Service, Special Professional Program,
  or Related TA/GA
• 58
• University SIS Report on Experiential Learning

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Adequately Prepared forChosen Career Field

• 2001 1996 1997 1998 1999
• Overall 79 81 81 81.8 80.5
• ARCH 85.7 70 71 53.6 58.3
• AS 73.2 75 75 72.7 74.2
• BUSN 81 84 89 86.8 86.5
• EDUC 84.9 89 90 91.3 88.7
• ENGR 84.5 84 78 86.3 78.6
• NURS/HP 85.7 84 81 83.6 84.2
• IT 68.8 na na na na

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Highest Job Satisfaction?

• 89 or greater
• from which 2 colleges?

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Job Satisfaction withCurrent Position

• 2001 1996 1997 1998 1999
• OVERALL 82.1 95 88 86.2 88
• ARCH 85.7 100 88 88.2 100
• AS 78.2 91 81 79.2 82
• BUSN 78.1 97 89 87.2 87.1
• EDUC 90.6 99 91 95.1 95.4
• ENGR 86.9 95 95 89.6 94.2
• NURS/HP 89.6 98 93 90.9 85.5
• IT 87.5 na na na na

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Working While In School

• 90 worked
• 67 in career related position
• 64.5 more than 2 years
• 72.1 16 hours
• 32.1 over 30 hours
• 63.5 necessary to pay for college

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Highest Median Salaryby College?

• Undergraduate 49,000
• Graduate 60,000

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Salary Information

• UNDERGRADUATE
• Median 30,000
• Females 8750 less than males
• GRADUATE Median 50,000

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Undergraduate Salaries (Median) by College

• 2001 1996 1997 1998 1999
• ARCH 30,000 24,000 23,750 24,000 37,000
• AS 26,000 21,000
  22,000 24,000 26,000
• BUSN 33,000 26,000 26,773 30,000 32,00
  0
• EDUC 25,000 21,000 22,139 23,100 24,000
• ENGR 43,000 30,500 36,000 35,737 40,000
• NURS/HP 35,750 26,371 30,500 30,000 31,50
  0
• IT 49,000 NA NA NA NA
• Female 27,250 21,763 23,000 24,000
  25,500
• Male 36,000 26,000
  30,000 30,000 34,000

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Graduate Salaries(Median) by College

• 2001 1996 1997 1998 1999
• ARCH 32,000 NA 44,000 49,500 31,000
• AS 39,750 31,000
  30,000 33,500 35,000
• BUSN 57,000 50,000 50,000 45,000 57,50
  0
• EDUC 36,750 26,000 28,028 30,000 32,250
• ENGR 56,800 45,100 50,850 50,000 51,500
  
• NURS/HP 51,000 41,000 42,000 45,000 50,0
  00
• IT 60,000 na na na na
• Female 45,000 30,000 31,289 24,000
  34,000
• Male 54,500 39,980 45,000 30,000 47
  ,500

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Top Graduate Schools

• UNC Charlotte (44)
• NC State (5)
• USC (4)
• UNC Chapel Hill
• UNCG
• Univ Tennessee
• Wake Forest

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Grad School Acceptances

• Columbia
• Medical College of SC
• Vanderbilt
• UVA
• UT- Austin
• Univ Michigan
• Parsons School of Design
• Univ Chicago

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Further Education

• 26.3 interest in pursuing Masters Degree
• 0 interest in pursuing Doctorate Degree
• 51.3 Interest in Certification

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Top Employers

• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
• Bank of America
• Carolinas Health Care System
• UNC Charlotte
• Cabarrus County Schools
• Duke Energy
• IBM
• First Union National Bank
• Gaston County Schools
• Union County Public Schools
• Northeast Medical Center
• US Army

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Employment Locations

• 86.5 employed in NC
• Others employed in 27 states
• Scotland, Mexico, Bosnia, Sweden

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Annual Survey Comparisons

• 2001 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
• resp. 954 1,008 1,049 1,108 1,141
  963
• emp/gs 94 96 96 95 93.6 94
• exp. lrn. 67 33 45 51 44.3
  57.3
• ad. prep. 79 79 81 81 81.8
  80.5
• job sat. 82.2 85 88 88 86 88
• pos. rel. 82.2 86 87 84 84 82.4
• consultant 299 393 375 475 692 513

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WORTH NOTING RE CURRENT TIMES

• 44 felt that current job was step to long range
  goals
• 82 satisfied with their position
• Both are down in comparison to past years
• Note survey sent out around Sept 11th

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Employment Agencies

• 4.3 paid a fee 11.3 used
• Some positive, but many negative comments
• We have written a brochure on considerations
• of using one
• Over 250-300 in Charlotte
• We DO NOT generally recommend

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Services Used in Conducting Job Search

• UCC Related 43
• Newspaper Ads 1.9
• Internet 7.1
• Agencies .5

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Most Widely Used University Career Center Services

• Individual Appointments
• Mock Interviews
• Career Resource Collections
• Resume critiques
• Campus Professional
• UCC Homepage
• UCC Career Fairs

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Motivation to Use University Career Center
Services

• Class Assignment (20.2)
• Graduation Requirement (15.8)
• Faculty/Staff Referral (15.3)
• Nothing (17)
• Credited Career Course (20.9)
• Other (10.3)

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University Career Centers Services Used

• 67 of respondents used at least one UCC service
• Majority using UCC service felt they were more
  prepared to do own career decision making and
  planning

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First Learned of UCC

• Class Presentation 19
• Friend/peer/student club 14
• 1 SOAR/ Explore
• 24.1 Ads/promo
• 11.8 Parent
• 9.1 drop In

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Future Plans for PGS

• Provost/ Deans Council support for
• Every other year university wide survey
• (2003, 2005, 2007,)
• And Off Years, Nursing and IT study
• UCC Guided, Urban Institute administered
• Post Graduate Study Oversight team

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Urban Institute Features

• Will serve same basic purpose and focus (i.e.,
  not intended to serve all assessment needs)
• Learning outcomes will be regular question
• Separate undergraduate and graduate survey
• 3 mailings follow EACH Aug, Dec, May graduation
• Follow up with those answering as unemployed

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Questions?

• Post-Graduation
• Survey Section

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• University
• Career
• Center
• Highlights

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Campus Professional

• Web based administration, employer and student
  database, OCI on line sign up, resume database,
  EL on line, centralized job posting for all
  positions
• NO cost now part of UNC base line services for
  students

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Campus Professional Enhancements

• Student upgrades
• User friendly design and Intuitive language
• Unlimited number of documents per student
• Create Detailed profile for resume referrals
• Expanded resource library of career information
• Expanded Global Jobs Database
• Job Search Agents

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Campus Professional Enhancements

• Employer upgrades
• Fast, accessible due to live web
• Resume books for ease in searching
• Ability to post jobs directly into system
  (pending approval)
• UNC Charlotte profile

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Career Developmement Highlights

• 178 sponsors in Career Prospector, 61 in student
  usage increase
• Over 1069 Discover users (Get Connected, Freshmen
  Seminar outreach)693 new
• Over 70 Intro classes Career Moments
• 12 Outreach Booths
• Career advisor hours in academic buildings 400
  sessions

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E-leads for Liberal Arts majors

• 1400 opportunities
• 11 different career fields (sports, public
  policy, healthcare, social services, etc)
• 42 different countries
• Consortium with Duke, Elon, Greensboro College,
  Chapel Hill, UNCG, UNCW, Wake Forest, UNCA,
  NCSU, Meredith
• Non profit Career Fair- Durham

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Co-op and 49ership Applicants 2001-02 vs. 99-00
by College

• 321 (214) Business
• 174 (200) Engineering
• 173 (na) IT
• 71 (70) Arts Sciences
• (739) 484 Total (53 increase)
• Summer Semester still in progress

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Quality Measures for EL(1-5)

• I have better understanding of this field as a
  result of this experience 4.41
• My participation has enabled me to increase my
  career knowledge base and influenced my career
  planning and decision making 4.48
• My career goals have been clarified as a result
  of this experience 4.10
• As a result of this experience, I am more
  motivated to stay in school 4.38

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Experiential Learning
Top Employers

• IBM
• CIT
• Walt Disney World
• Transamerica Corp
• IRS
• General Electric
• Child Care Resources,
• Digital Design Inc.
• Cydecor
• TIAA CREF and Compass Group

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New Academic Initiatives

• MGMT 3160- CP, Mocks, Discover
• Engineering Mock Interview Day
• Education and CP
• Career Moments over 70
• Chemistry web service sessions

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Usage Highlights to Date

• Students at CP Orientations over 1100
• Website hits 154,553
• Faculty website 2,415
• Individual assistance 6,000
• 64 non seniors, 12 graduate students
• 7 alumni/post bac
• Business highest demand
• Freshmen, prospective, soph 33
• Other DCCEAP/staff, TIAA CREF, Sr/Jrs
• Over 3000 in completed resume database

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UCC Values

• v    The UCC is committed to YOU from campus to
  professional
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• v    We value providing accurate, timely,
  knowledgeable information and resources to assist
  you in your personal career assessment, career
  decision-making, experience building, employment
  search, and career change
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• v    We will provide a safe and responsive
  environment, information, and counseling in which
  you can explore your doubts, concerns, interests,
  and desires regarding your lifes work
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• v    We value trusting long-term relationships
  with our students, employers, and departments

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• v    We value providing customer service in a
  friendly, compassionate, caring, respectful, and
  honest manner
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• v    We value teaching you and helping you engage
  in career decision making and employment
  processes that you can learn and use over a life
  time
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Thank you for your attention.

• Final Questions
• and
• Evaluation
• copy will be on our website uncc.edu/career
  (faculty)
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