Montana Technological University · Career ServicesA metric the Chancellor never had
Career Services at Montana Tech moved its whole operation to Career Forge for the 2025 fall term: career fairs and invoicing, coaching, experiential learning, interviews and outcomes, with iPad check-in and badge printing at its fairs. A year on, the fall fair sold out, employers pay from a link, and the office reported second-day interviews for the first time.
Published 4 November 2026
- Where
- Butte, Montana. A public university of engineering, science and technology.
- Before
- 12twenty.
- Since
- Set up in summer 2025; events, coaching, experiential learning, interviews and surveys live by spring 2026.
- Runs on Career Forge
- Event Management, Check-in & Badge Printing, Coaching, Experiential Learning, Interviews, Jobs, First Destination & Outcomes, Reporting.
The fair
Packages, pricing by organization type and an invoice per registration meant employers paid from a link in their email. The fall 2026 fair sold out. When the office asked in September for the packages remaining per session to show on the event overview, because employers phone to ask, it was on the page by the October call.
Second-day interviews, counted
Employers interview in the gym the day after the fair. The office set up a second kiosk session in Career Forge, and students checked in for their interview the way they had for the fair. For the first time the Chancellor got the number of unique students who went on to interviews.
Outcomes, the first cycle
The 2026 graduating cohort is the first collected in Career Forge: email campaigns first, then student workers phone the non-responders. Phone calls are what take the knowledge rate past the NACE standard; stakeholders watch the outcome rate. The survey closes at the end of March and results are released in April.
Students
When students log in and look at an event, everything they need is on the page: sessions, employers, registration status, and what to bring.
On the school's own site: Montana Tech news: a new career services platform (January 2026)
From recorded calls with the Career Forge team, cleaned for reading, nothing added. Every career center on Career Forge
