Alumni Job Placement Analytics

Owned by Melanie Hoven
Last updated: Jul 11, 2023
4 min read

Access the Alumni Job Placement Dashboard via GradPoint and click the “Reports” tab and select the Alumni Placement Analytics from the drop down and click view. For users that have access via PowerBI, the Dashboard can be accessed by going directly to PowerBI and finding the App Alumni Placement .

Dashboard

The Doctoral Alumni Job Placement dashboard allows departments and administrators to track career outcomes of their doctoral alumni. The dashboard uses data from the annual University of California Office of the President Doctoral Job Placement survey. Data ranges from 2014-2022 with graduation years 2012-2020 since data is collected for students graduating two years prior. Data will be updated annually following survey results. This data has been cleaned, edited, and adjusted and may reflect different outcomes from what departments have inputed in their responses. For example, if the category Employer Type was selected as “Business/Industry” by the department respondent, but the Employer Name category is a university, then we have adjusted Employer Type to be “University”.

Dashboard Pages

The dashboard is composed of multiple pages

  1. Position by Doctoral Award Year

    1. This page provides count outcomes by year

  2. Position by Division & Department

    1. This page shows count outcomes by department and division (option to choose)

  3. Position Percentage by Division & Department

    1. This page shows outcomes as a percentage by department and division

  4. Position by Gender and Ethnicity

    1. This page shows outcomes by gender and ethnicity count

  5. Position Totals and Employer Name

    1. This page shows outcomes as a total as well as by the employers

Filters

In addition to pages, viewers have the option of changing the slicer (described below), using the Zoom bar to zoom in on visuals on additional information, or using the various filters on top.

  • Gender provides information on the Male, Female, or Unknown gender categories as are collected

  • Ethnicity provides information on the IPEDS ethnicity categories including “Foreign Alien” which we know of as International students

  • The Department and Division option allow viewers to zoom into their own departments and divisions

  • Doctoral Awarded Date refers to the year and quarter of the doctoral award received. The last digit refers to the quarter: 4 for Fall, 1 for Winter, 2 for Spring, and 3 for Summer. 20184 refers to Fall 2018, 20191 refers to Winter 2019 (all part of the 2018-2019 award year)

  • Doctoral Award Year places the quarters into an award year (Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Summer 2019 refers to 2018-2019 award year).

  • Start Quarter is when the student began their doctoral education for the degree that was awarded.

  • Employed in Education - whether the alumni was employed in a position education related

  • Employed in Academia - whether the alumni was employed in a position in academia

  • Research Position - whether the alumni’s position employed research

  • Tenure Track - whether the alumni’s position was a tenure track position

  • Position Type Name provides different position category names

 

Slicers

In addition to the different pages, viewers have the option to use the slicer on the left to view various employment breakdowns. Position Type lists the various positions for the alumni.

  • Employer Type lists the various employer categories

  • Employer Short Categories are an aggregate of Employer Type categories to allow for easier viewing.

  • Employed in Academia is a category that indicates whether or not the job is in Academia

  • Employed in Education is a category that indicates whether or not the job is in Education (not necessarily Academia i.e. K-12)

  • Research Position is a category that indicates whether the job is a research position.

 

 

The dashboard is interactive and you can choose different filters or click on different parts of the visuals to see how things change including the count (upper right hand side).