Student Attitudes

Many students may want to negotiate after receiving a job offer but don’t know how, so it's up to career services staff to prepare them for this process.

To understand the needs and attitudes of nontraditional students, defined here as students who are age 25 and older, we analyzed results from our 2025 Student Survey. Among our findings: Nontraditional students use AI differently from their traditional-aged peers, don't use the career center as frequently, and have a deep sense of pride in their institution and feel connected and supported by their peers and faculty.

By using a gamified approach to career development, college career services can create scenarios that simulate the workplace and encourage active student participation.

For many, success is shaped by external factors, but career services staff can help guide individuals to reflect on what success means to them through their own lens.

New college graduates embrace the value of higher education, with 91% reporting that, if they had a chance to do it again, they would opt to pursue a college education.

Mary Scott compared data from 2016 to that from 2022 to gauge students’ assessment that an employer “made it seem as though they were interested in me.” What she found was astonishing.