SIS | Career Services

THE REALITY FOR MOST INSTITUTIONS

Career Outcomes Are Your Most Powerful Selling Point, and the Hardest to Track.

Placement Data Is Manual, Incomplete, and Always Late

Most institutions track graduate placements through surveys, phone calls, and spreadsheets, producing unreliable data that arrives months after graduation and rarely captures the full picture of student outcomes.

Career Services Lives Outside the Academic System

When career services tools aren't connected to academic records, advisors and career counselors are working from different versions of student information, making it impossible to proactively connect the right student with the right opportunity at the right time.

Compliance Reporting Is a Recurring Scramble

For career schools with placement rate disclosure requirements, pulling accurate, auditable placement data under accreditor or regulatory timelines is a high-stakes, labor-intensive process, especially when data lives in disconnected systems.

WHY STUDENT FIRST IS DIFFERENT

Career Outcomes Built Into the System of Record, Not Tracked Separately.

Most career services tools are standalone platforms that sit outside the SIS, requiring manual data imports, duplicate record-keeping, and constant reconciliation between what the academic system knows about a student and what the career platform tracks.

Student First connects career services directly to the student record. Academic progress, program completion, skills attainment, and placement outcomes all live in the same unified system. That means career counselors see the full student picture without switching platforms. It means placement data is current, not assembled after the fact. And it means the institution can demonstrate outcomes with confidence, whether the audience is a prospective student, an accreditor, or a state regulatory agency.

Career preparedness isn’t an afterthought in Student First. It’s built into the same data model that tracks everything else about a student's journey, from first inquiry to first job.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Every Tool Your Institution Needs to Connect Students to Careers.

Placement Tracking & Management

Track graduate placements by program, employer, position type, and wage, with real-time visibility into placement rates and outcomes across your entire student population.

Compliance-Ready Placement Reporting

Generate accurate, auditable placement rate reports for accreditors, state regulatory agencies, and institutional marketing, directly from the student record, without manual data assembly.

Matched Job Opportunities

Surface relevant job openings and employer connections for each student based on their program, skills, academic progress, and career interests, automatically and continuously.

Employer Relationship Management

Build and manage employer partnerships, track hiring history, and monitor relationship health, giving career services teams the tools to cultivate the employer network that drives student placements.

Career Counselor Workflow Tools

Career counselors manage student caseloads, track engagement, schedule appointments, and document career development activity, all within the same system as the student's academic record.

Job Board & Opportunity Management

Post, manage, and match students to job listings from employer partners, with application tracking and outcome documentation built in.

Skills & Competency Tracking

Track skills and competency attainment alongside academic progress, connecting program-specific skill development to employer expectations and career pathway requirements.

Internship & Experiential Learning Tracking

Document internship placements, experiential learning hours, and work-based learning outcomes, with compliance tracking for programs that require work experience components.

Alumni Outcome Tracking

Extend career services beyond graduation, tracking alumni employment outcomes over time and building the longitudinal outcome data that strengthens accreditation reports and institutional reputation.

Outcome Dashboards & Marketing Assets

Real-time placement rate dashboards give leadership instant visibility into career outcomes, and give marketing teams accurate, current data to showcase institutional performance to prospective students.

AI INTELLIGENCE FOR STUDENT RECORDS

Records That Don't Just Store Data, They Work With It.

Student First's AI brings intelligence to records management, automating compliance monitoring, surfacing discrepancies before they become errors, and giving staff the visibility to manage complex student populations with confidence.

Program Completion Readiness

Student First monitors each student's progress toward program completion in real time, flagging gaps in requirements, outstanding financial aid obligations, and missing credentials before they delay graduation. Career services and advising teams get a clear, shared view of who is ready, who is at risk, and who needs a nudge.

Real-Time Placement Tracking & Reporting

Placement outcomes are tracked and reported in real time, pulling from the same student record that manages academic progress and program completion. No manual surveys. No data assembly. Accurate, auditable placement rates available on demand for accreditors, regulators, and prospective students.

Program Completion & Placement Risk Alerts

AI monitors students approaching graduation who haven't engaged with career services or employer connections, triggering proactive outreach from career counselors before students leave without a placement plan. Institutions catch disengaged students before they become unfavorable statistics.

Employer Relationship Intelligence

Track employer partnerships, hiring patterns, and placement success rates by employer, giving career services teams the data to prioritize the relationships that produce the best outcomes for students and strengthen new employer pipeline development.

Outcome Analytics & Accreditation Reporting

Real-time dashboards show placement rates by program, employer type, geographic area, and time-to-placement, with exportable reports formatted for accreditation submissions, regulatory disclosures, and institutional marketing. Turn outcome data into a recruiting asset.

AI-First. Human-Verified.

AI surfaces opportunities and flags at-risk students. Career counselors build the relationships and make the decisions.

DESIGNED FOR YOUR SECTOR

Career Outcomes Mean Different Things Depending on Who You Serve. Student First Delivers for All of Them.

Career & Vocational Schools

Placement rates aren't just a marketing metric for career schools, they're a compliance requirement and an accreditation standard. Student First tracks placements in real time, generates audit-ready reports on demand, and gives career schools the accurate, defensible outcome data they need to satisfy regulators and attract the next class of students.

Community Colleges

Help students navigate transfer pathways, workforce entry, and continuing education options with career services tools that connect academic progress to next steps, whether that's a four-year transfer or immediate employment. Student First gives community colleges the infrastructure to support career outcomes across a diverse student population with varying definitions of success.

Four-Year Colleges & Universities

Support career development across undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs with employer relationship management, internship tracking, alumni outcome monitoring, and placement analytics that demonstrate the long-term value of a degree. Student First gives four-year institutions the career services infrastructure to compete on outcomes, not just reputation.

International & Online Institutions

Connect students to global employer networks and track cross-border placement outcomes with career services tools that work as effectively for an online student in another country as for a student on campus. Student First's flexible architecture supports career outcome tracking for institutions serving students across geographies and time zones.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

What Academic Operations Teams Are Saying.

“Our implementation projects are customarily delivered in less than one year. Thus, your school is up and running on the new solution faster and with less staff fatigue than other competitive offerings.”

David Meek

CEO

“Student First offers incredible performance and scalability using a micro-services architecture. No competitive product is more technologically advanced, which guarantees the value of your investment for the future. Many existing solutions are built on legacy platforms that are near end of life.”