Collect first destination and outcomes data
Survey graduates with the NACE First Destination Survey or a survey of your own, track responses by cohort, and export the results.
First Destination & Outcomes, start to finish
Start from the NACE template, or from scratch
The NACE First Destination Survey is built in. Reword its questions and answers, and they stay mapped to the NACE standard.
- Sections with skip logic and visibility rules
- Add sections before or after existing ones
- A survey of your own for anything else
- Templates and one-click exports for other standards (MBA CSEA, ABA, NALP) built on request
Who gets asked, and when
A cohort is a group of students enrolled in a survey, built by search, filter or an uploaded list, each with its own email schedule.
- A student can be in several cohorts
- Scheduled reminders with automatic spacing, and ad hoc sends
- Record a result as a student response or as staff knowledge
Set once, at the level it belongs to
Each career center on a campus runs its own first destination & outcomes; what the institution shares is set once for all of them.
| Setting | Set where |
|---|---|
| Start from the NACE First Destination Survey template or from scratch | Per survey |
| The wording of each question and its answers, mapped to the NACE standard question and response | Per survey |
| Sections, their visibility rules and skip logic; new sections before or after existing ones | Per survey |
| Cohorts: who is enrolled, by search, by filter or from an uploaded list of emails | Per survey |
| The email schedule: send dates, reminder spacing, the emails' text, and unscheduled sends | Per cohort |
| Whether a result is a response from the student or knowledge gathered by staff | Per submission |
First Destination & Outcomes next to Handshake, Symplicity and 12twenty
NACE First Destination Survey template built in, with cohorts and email schedules; templates and one-click exports for other standards (MBA CSEA, ABA, NALP) are built on request.
| How it works there | |
|---|---|
| Handshake | Pre-built NACE or MBA CSEA surveys whose standard questions cannot be changed, with additional questions and skip logic; a one-click NACE download; staff can enter a knowledge answer for a student. Included in the school's contract. Source Full comparison |
| Symplicity | Unlimited surveys and placement-outcome tracking; students can explore the First Destination Survey data a school chooses to share. Source Full comparison |
| 12twenty | Survey templates with standards-compliant fields, skip logic and a survey-on-login prompt; one-click NACE, MBA CSEA, ABA and NALP reports with an audit log of outcome changes. Source Full comparison |
Statements about other products come from their own sites, linked in each row.
What First Destination & Outcomes does not make you do
The standard underneath, your words on top
Reword a NACE question or add answer options for your audience; each stays mapped to the standard question and response, so the NACE export is still the NACE export.
Cohorts are campaigns
A cohort is a group of graduates with its own email schedule. The same graduate can sit in two cohorts of the same survey and be asked at two different times.
Knowledge counts
An outcome staff confirm by their own research is recorded as knowledge, next to the responses students gave, and reported with them.
Questions people ask about First Destination & Outcomes
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