Welcome to the Graduate Insights section of the Help Center. These articles walk you through the platform and help you get the most from it.
What Graduate Insights is
Graduate Insights is a set of online dashboards for faculty and staff, hosted at data.steppingblocks.com. It shows alumni outcomes, employer trends and skills data for your institution, drawn from Steppingblocks' data on more than 150 million people across the U.S. Alumni data is updated quarterly.
Graduate Insights includes:
Graduate Outcomes: a high-level view of where your graduates work, what they earn, who hires them and which skills they hold.
Graduate Explorer: individual-level alumni data with advanced filters and downloadable lists.
The Data tab: filtered downloads of more than 10,000 records, for users with the Data Exports permission.
What you see depends on the permissions your administrator sets. See Graduate Outcomes vs. Graduate Explorer for how the dashboards differ, and Graduate Insights Permission Levels Explained for what each access level includes.
Try a few starter searches
The fastest way to get comfortable is to jump in: run a few searches and watch the dashboard update as you add filters. Not sure where to start? Try one of these:
In Graduate Outcomes, filter for a specific major, then narrow to graduates from the past five years. Compare the skill sets of the two groups to see how the field is changing.
In Graduate Outcomes, find your top employers and see which ones are trending up or down in hiring.
In Graduate Explorer, filter for everyone working in human resources in any industry. Then open the Graduate Data tab and download the list for targeted outreach, such as inviting employers to a job fair.
Learn more
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