Career-Related Posts on Switchboard

We asked our dev team to pull numbers on career-related posts across all Switchboards.

The results are clear: Students and alumni trust Switchboard to help them find their next job and plan their careers in the long-term.

Not only that—they also turn to Switchboard to offer their communities career-related help. The majority of career-related posts on Switchboard are offers to lend a hand.

Switchboard allows students, young alumni, and older alumni to form intergenerational connections that benefit them and their alma maters. Most career-related asks are posted by students and younger alumni. Most career-related offers are posted by older alumni.

A full 70% of users who checked in on their career-related posts said they had a good experience after posting.

We also tracked 5513 connections (comments on a post or messages that result from a post) that Switchboard users made as a result of 2999 career-related posts. That's 1.84 connections per post, and there are even more that we can't track—connections made over email, by phone, and in person.

These numbers aren't surprising, given the vast array of narrative evidencewe've gathered to support the claim that Switchboard works. Alumni and students trust each other to lend a hand, and Switchboard is where they go to find that help.