Student view, for students who opt in
Applications with company, role, stage and dates on a timeline, their personal funnel, upcoming deadlines and activity. Enough to open a useful conversation with one student.
Target careers support at the right students, at the right time.
Jobstead gives careers and employability teams live data on students’ job searches: who’s applying, where applications stall and who’s gone quiet, by faculty and cohort. Build your strategy on what’s happening this week, and act while it can still make a difference.
30-minute call Free pilot, limited places [email protected]
University overviewSample data
3,412students joined, of 9,871
61%active in the last 14 days
262offers this season
- Engineering and Physical SciencesOn track
- Business SchoolOn track
- Medicine and HealthWatch
- Social SciencesWatch
- Arts and HumanitiesNeeds attention
What live data adds to Careers Registration and Graduate Outcomes
QuestionSurveysJobstead
How oftenCareers Registration once a year; Graduate Outcomes once, after graduationEvery day, all year
What it tells youHow ready students say they feel, or where they ended upApplications, interviews and offers, as students log them
When you see itAt enrolment, or 15 months or more after graduationThe same week
What you can do with itPlan the year ahead from a snapshotAdjust support each week, at the right students
Where to act this week, on one screen.
One place for your whole team to plan from: the university, each faculty, each cohort and, where students opt in, individual students.
- 1Headline numbers that move
Reach, activity, applications, interviews and offers, each with its trend and the change since last week.
- 2Status you can act on
Every cohort marked on track, watch or needs attention from clear thresholds, ranked so the cohorts that need you come first.
- 3Trends over time
Eight weeks of activity by cohort, faculty or the whole university, so you can see which way things are moving.
- 4Honest about coverage
Every view shows how many students it’s based on, and how many haven’t joined or aren’t sharing.
What your team will know on a Monday morning.
Four views from the careers dashboard that turn live data into next week’s plan. Every number shows how many students it’s based on.
Cohorts needing attention firstSample data
CohortStatusActiveApplications each
English Literature, Year 3Arts and Humanities · 47 of 183 sharingNeeds attention31%1.9
Sociology, Year 2Social Sciences · 33 of 151 sharingNeeds attention36%1.4
Mechanical Engineering, Year 3Engineering · 118 of 262 sharingWatch45%5.1
Psychology, Year 2Medicine and Health · 81 of 279 sharingWatch57%3.2
Law, Year 3Social Sciences · 117 of 231 sharingOn track73%11.3
English Literature’s activity has fallen three weeks running. Last week it was on Watch.
This week’s shortlist · Mechanical Engineering, Year 3Sample data
- Niamh HughesQuiet for 4 weeks in peak seasonA saved role closes Thursday
- Ben OkaforQuiet for 3 weeks in peak season
- Isla Wright3 rejections after screening
- Zara HartA saved role closes Wednesday
- Ethan Carter5 roles saved, none applied to
These students opted in to be named. 23 more match these reasons but chose not to be. You see them as a count, and can nudge them as a group.
Where applications stall, this seasonSample data
Law, Year 3
- Applied1,312
- Screening538
- Interview289
- Offer41
Plenty of interviews, few offers. Interview practice.
Sociology, Year 2
- Applied47
- Screening6
- Interview<5
- Offer0
Few get past the first sift. CV and application support.
Final-year students, all facultiesSample data
Based on 1,183 of 2,214 finalists who share their activity
- Applied somewhere71%
- Had an interview38%
- Holding an offer12%
343finalists haven’t applied anywhere yet. Most are in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences.
An early indicator from students’ own activity. It isn’t Graduate Outcomes data.
See it with sample data shaped like your university. A 30-minute call with the team who built it. Or email [email protected].
Book a demoWhat your team gets in the pilot.
The tools your team will use each week, shown as they look in the dashboard.
Nudges that reach the right students
Write a short message, pick a group, see exactly how many students it reaches and how it will look in their app. Every nudge is logged and measured.
Cohort goals
Set targets for each cohort and watch progress week by week.
Cohorts and join codes
Set up a cohort by faculty, course and year in a minute. No integration needed.
Exports for reporting
Cohort totals as a CSV for board papers and returns. Never a row for an individual student.
Shared team notes
Cohort-level notes so the whole team knows what’s been tried.
- Early-warning list with plain-English reasons
- Stage funnel by cohort
- Finalists and graduates view
- Monday digest email
- Faculty compared with the university
- Dashboard and list views of every screen
- Leader and adviser roles
- Groups under five hidden automatically
- Works on phone, tablet and desktop
All of this is included in the free pilot. See it working with sample data shaped like your university. Or email [email protected].
Book a demoSee which interventions move activity, for your APP and TEF evidence.
Every nudge your team sends is compared with the week before it, so you can plan next term around what works. Results are indicative and work best alongside your own evaluation.
Trends sit side by side by faculty, and totals export as a CSV for board papers and returns.
Nudge · Civil Engineering, Year 2Sample data
“Placement applications open this month. Drop-in sessions every afternoon this week.”
43 students reached: those who hadn’t applied yet
Monday digest · EngineeringSample data
- Active students58%▲ 4 pts
- Applications this week412▲ 37
- Offers this week9▲ 3
- Civil Engineering, Year 2Needs attention → Watch
Free for students, and something they want to use.
Jobstead is the tracker students use for themselves: every application, deadline and follow-up in one place, a Chrome extension that saves a job in one click, and a garden that grows as they go. The data comes from a tool students choose to use for themselves.
Mechanical Engineering, Year 3Sample data
141 of 262 students joined (54%)
Every dashboard shows its reach, so you always know how much of a cohort you’re seeing. In a pilot, we help you grow it with join codes shared in modules, by placement teams and by personal tutors.
Built to get through information governance.
Designed around what your data protection officer will ask, from the first conversation.
What careers staff seeAccess
Cohort and faculty trends, with how many students each is based onYes
Company, role, stage and dates, for students who opt in to be namedIf opted in
Outreach and feedbackCounts only
Any group of fewer than five studentsHidden
Messages, contacts, employer feedback and students’ notesNever
- You’re the controller, we’re the processor. A data processing agreement is signed before any student data is shared.
- Hosted in the UK/EU. Student data stays in UK or EU data centres.
- Your DPIA, done together. We’ll work through it with your DPO and information governance team.
- Students stay in control. Each chooses whether to be named, counted or left out, and can stop at any time.
Bring your DPO to the demo. We’ll take them through how student data is handled.
A free pilot that’s quick to set up.
We’re working with a small number of universities to shape Jobstead for careers services. Places are limited.
You can start with one faculty or a handful of cohorts. Setting up a cohort takes a minute, there’s nothing for IT to integrate, and the Monday digest brings the week’s changes to you.
- 1Demo and scope
We agree the faculties and cohorts to start with.
- 2Cohorts and join codes
Students join with a code and their university email.
- 3Live data from week one
Dashboards fill in as students log activity, with a digest every Monday.
Book a demo
or email [email protected]
Questions from careers leaders and DPOs.
Careers Registration and Graduate Outcomes are surveys: a once-a-year picture of how students feel or where they ended up. Jobstead adds live data on applications, interviews and offers, week by week, so you can target support while it can still make a difference. It works alongside your CRM.
Every view shows how many students it’s based on and how many haven’t joined, so you never mistake part of a cohort for all of it. In a pilot we help you grow reach with join codes shared in modules, by placement teams and by personal tutors. The students who haven’t joined are a useful list in their own right.
It’s what students record as they apply, and the Chrome extension saves a job in one click. Every view shows its base, so you can judge how far to rely on it.
A demo, then a short scoping call to choose the faculties and cohorts to start with. We put a data processing agreement in place, set up your cohorts and join codes, and work with you on sign-up. Pilots are free, and places are limited.
Only what a student chooses to share. If they opt in to be named, their adviser sees their applications: company, role, stage and dates. Outreach and feedback are only ever counts, and messages, contacts and notes are never shared. More on data protection.
Each student chooses whether to be named, counted or left out, and can stop at any time. Messages, contacts and notes are never shared.
No. You create cohorts and share a join code, and students join with the code and their university email.
Yes. Every tracker, the Chrome extension and the garden are free for students, whether or not their university uses Jobstead.
See the dashboard set up like your university.
In 30 minutes we’ll walk you through the dashboard with sample data shaped like your university, talk about how live data could shape your careers strategy, and answer your questions on data protection and the pilot.