For career services
A cohort that raises your own knowledge rate
NACE asks for a First-Destination Survey with a defensible knowledge rate, minimum 65%. Every graduate you cannot reach after they leave is a mark against that number. This is a career-readiness cohort built on the same evidence discipline, run for students who are still on campus and easy to reach.
The gap between the résumé workshop and the survey
A résumé workshop produces attendance. NACE’s standard asks for something else entirely: a classified, published outcome for each graduate, with the collection method disclosed, six months after they leave. The workshop and the survey are measuring different things, which is why a well-attended workshop and a poor knowledge rate can both be true at once.
The reason the gap is hard to close from the survey side is timing: by the time you are trying to reach a graduate for their first-destination outcome, they are gone, and so is your leverage to get a real answer. The reason it is easy to close from this side is that students are still on campus, still checking their student email, and still willing to fill in a form.
What a cohort includes
A taught workshop
Reading a posting as requirements, recovering evidence from coursework, internships and campus work most students have never written down as accomplishments, and writing only what survives a second question.
A printed workbook each
The method works entirely on paper. Students write in it during the session and keep working from it afterward.
Individual accounts
Free accounts, claimed with a code, that continue on the free plan after the term ends — the record does not expire when the semester does.
Aggregate reporting
How many claimed a seat, how many built a working evidence base, how many are still actively maintaining it at 30, 60 and 90 days, what representation gaps the cohort surfaced, and how many closed the loop on an application they tracked here with a final result — an offer, a rejection, an accepted role.
What you will not receive, and why that is the point
You receive counts. You do not receive a student’s record, their documents, or their name against any of it. A student writing candidly about what they have not yet proven will not do it if they believe the office administering their financial aid is reading it.
Students are told this in the product itself, at the moment they claim their seat, rather than being left to wonder.
Being straight about what this is
We have not run a campus cohort before. The method, the platform and the reporting are built and in use; this packaging of them for a career-services office is new, and you would be among the first. If that matters to you, it should, and we would rather you knew now.
We do not promise a knowledge-rate lift. We will not tell you a number of points your survey will improve by, because we could not support it. What we will tell you is exactly how many students engaged and can be reached, in numbers you can check.
There is no job board and never will be. This is not a placement service. It makes students able to describe and prove their work; where they take that is theirs.
Tell us the situation
How many students, which class or program, and what your survey already shows about the gap. A real person answers.
Book a conversationPrefer email? hello@standingproof.com
Running this for a workforce or WIOA-funded program instead? See the workforce pilot.