Before implementing Symplicity's platform, the University of Nottingham's careers service operated with limited visibility into student engagement and lacked comprehensive data reporting capabilities. This hindered their ability to demonstrate the impact of their services and make evidence-based decisions about resource allocation.
The University of Nottingham implemented Symplicity's platform across two key areas: careers service management and student campus life services, with the careers team taking a leading role in its deployment. The platform enables students to book appointments, promotes event attendance, and provides comprehensive career planning resources including CV templates.
"The biggest thing that we found is increased credibility across the university, because we have accurate data on appointments and student engagement with job opportunities. It gives us a huge amount of data that we can analyse, which means we can present lots of interesting information to our colleagues at the university.”
Stuart Marriott, Associate Director in Career Services, University of Nottingham
The implementation has delivered exceptional results in data collection and analysis capabilities:
Enhanced Data Analytics: The university now captures comprehensive metrics on student appointments, event bookings, and job application interactions, providing unprecedented visibility into service usage and effectiveness.
Improved Reporting Capabilities: The platform's robust reporting features enable the careers service to present compelling data to university leadership, demonstrating clear value and impact.
Evidence-Based Success: The data reporting capabilities have contributed significantly to the university's success in regulatory frameworks, helping to build value-added metrics and provide evidence for major achievements.
"I can honestly say that the data reporting contributed massively to our success in the teaching regulatory framework. We were able to build value-added metrics to provide evidence, and we achieved excellent Student Outcomes, which is a massive achievement."
Pauline Maiden, Director of Career and Employability, University of Nottingham
The platform has revolutionised how the University of Nottingham delivers careers services:
Seamless Access: Students can easily access services online and via mobile phones, making it convenient to search for jobs and opportunities.
Enhanced Functionality: The platform includes question features, queues, and the ability for students to submit queries for direct response from the careers team.
Consistency Across Services: The implementation has improved consistency of experience across the university's career service provision.
The success of the platform has led to expanded interest from other university departments:
"Other parts of the university are interested because it has such good functionality and is adaptable. Our biggest focus now is on building transparency," explains Stuart Marriott.
Future developments include:
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"Come and talk to us. We will gladly demonstrate and help out with how we've developed the platform," encourages Pauline.
The University of Nottingham's experience demonstrates how Symplicity CareerHub's comprehensive data analytics and reporting capabilities can transform careers services, providing the evidence base needed for continuous improvement and institutional recognition.
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