Career Services

Class of 2016

Follow-up Study

Executive Summary

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Most members of the Class of 2016 are working or engaged in advanced study; those employed are “generally” or “very” satisfied with their current situation, and they are earning higher salaries than the co-hort of graduates from the previous year. These are among insights gained from the follow-up survey con-ducted 6- to 10-months after graduation. A 97.1 percent career outcomes rate for these new alumni contin-ues the steady success reported over the past several years from the annual survey.

The study, conducted by the offices of Career Services and Institutional Research, helps the St. Lawrence community to assess its effectiveness by capturing first destinations, and it informs future planning based on responses received directly from the newly-minted graduates. Open-ended comments at the end of the sur-vey are especially useful in identifying potential areas to improve efforts to guide and inspire the personal and career development of current students. Information collected in this summary is shared with the St. Lawrence community including University Communications, Admissions, academic departments and Universi-ty Advancement to assist them in accomplishing their work objectives, and it is shared with the general public through prominent placement on the University’s web site and in other media. The results also serve as a source of pride as we celebrate our graduates' successes.

This year’s survey includes the responses of 414 members of the Class of 2016 (students who graduated in May 2016 and August 2016) for an overall response rate of 77 percent (down from 79 percent for the Class of 2015). Respondents completed the survey on-line or over the phone with a career services student staff member. Graduates were mailed a postcard with the survey site address, and subsequent follow-up was con-ducted through personalized emails, phone calls and social media outlets. Career Services also collaborated with faculty, other administrative staff and coaches, who contacted many non-respondents to urge them to complete the survey. Data were collected beginning in late November, 2016, and the survey closed on March 12, 2017.

Those reporting graduate studies as their primary activity rose slightly from 18 percent of the class of 2015 to 19 percent of the 2016 class, but the overall acceptance rate fell from 96 percent to 94 percent and the aver-age number of graduate schools applied to fell from 4.2 to 3.5 schools. Full-time employment dropped a cou-ple of points to 66 percent after having risen to 68 percent in 2015, with a corresponding rise in those re-porting part-time work over last year’s report. But overall satisfaction with work remained strong with 94 percent saying they are generally or very satisfied and only 6 percent being generally or very dissatisfied. Me-dian entry salaries for full-time positions are up $3,000 ($40,500 is the median salary reported by 2016 re-spondents), and 86 percent report their job is one that typically requires completion of a bachelor’s degree.

There were no significant changes in industry or job category listed, with education, finance and banking, health care and sports and recreation leading the pack, but the survey captured an interesting shift in the number of graduates who describe themselves as entrepreneurs or engaged in temporary or contract work. That number increased from 12 graduates (3 percent) in 2015 to 35 graduates (9 percent) in 2016. An adjustment to this year’s survey produced relevant insight by capturing the ways graduates of the Class of 2016 responded to the question “Which of the following were influential in finding your current position?”

Executive Summary

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Prior to this year, the wording of the question was “How did you learn about your current position?” – fo-cusing more on a specific job referral that often resulted in a narrow response such as “job posting site.” The change in emphasis has generated useful information about the iterative process of finding a destina-tion.

Highlights:

The importance of internships/previous employment for finding a job (35 percent of all graduates of 2016 vs. 20 percent for 2015 and 18 percent for 2014 in responding to the earlier, more restrictive question);

The role of faculty and staff (cited by 22 percent of all graduates of 2016 as being influential, compared to 5 percent of 2015 graduates who learned directly about their current position from faculty/staff);

The importance of SLU’s alumni network, recruiting events such as the Eastern College Career Days and Career Services in general – all praised in many open-ended comments as well.

Open-ended comments highlighted areas for improvement, such as the following:

Career advice is still perceived to be strongest for economics/business/government majors (and by the geology department through its robust network) and weakest in health and science career fields, anthropology and the arts. Students perceived a lack of representation of these fields in recruit-ment and networking events. They seek more specific advice in individual career services appoint-ments and are looking for better graduate school counseling. This is an ongoing concern for St. Law-rence, but might be on the rise with the increase in students in life and health sciences fields. Inten-tional programming and messaging by Career Services this past year may help to alleviate the per-ception, and we continue to seek effective ways to meet students’ interests and needs, especially focusing on following the successes of alumni in various fields and engaging them in our program-ming and as mentors. We will watch future follow-up studies to see if those efforts have helped to shift such perceptions.

Some reported interest in more international options for post-graduate internships and graduate school. Is there an opportunity for special or better networking with alumni who live abroad to help address this? Several respondents mentioned they were pointed to LinkedIn and felt that was inad-equate.

The following detailed report contains information on the top career industries and job functions, salary ranges, a sampling of jobs, a breakdown of graduate school attendance, a sampling of graduate and professional school programs and internship information.

Respectfully submitted,

Ron Albertson, Director of Career Services, July 2017

Follow-up Study: Class of 2016

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St. Lawrence University, as of March 12, 2017

Category Respondents Percentage CAREERS

Employed Full-Time 248 60.6%

Employed Full-Time Volunteer Activity 15 3.7%

Employed Full-Time, Attending Graduate School Part-Time 6 1.5%

Employed Full-Time, Other Professional/Baccalaureate Education FT 1 0.2%

Employed Full-Time, Other Professional/Baccalaureate Education PT 1 0.2%

Employed Full-Time Volunteer, Graduate School Part-Time 0 0.0%

Total Employed Full-Time 271 66.3%

Employed Part-Time 43 10.5%

Employed Part-Time, Attending Graduate School Part-Time 3 0.7%

Total Employed Part-Time 46 11.2%

Internships or Research Experience, Unpaid 2 0.5%

Total Primarily Pursuing a Career 319 78.0%

POSTBACCALAUREATE EDUCATION

TRANSITION

Final Outcome Rate: 397/409 97.1%

Total Primarily Pursuing Education 78 19.1%

In Transition -- Pursuing Employment or Graduate School 12 2.9%

Graduate School Full-Time 28 6.8%

Graduate School Full-Time, Volunteer/Internship Part-Time Unpaid 1 0.2%

Graduate School Full-Time, Employed Full-Time 9 2.2%

Graduate School Full-Time, Employed Part-Time 34 8.3%

Graduate School Part-Time 0 0.0%

Other Professional Post-Baccalaureate Education FT 3 0.7%

Other Professional Post-Baccalaureate Education PT 3 0.7%

Total Primarily Graduate/Professional School 78 19.1%

SUMMARY

Other Post-Baccalaureate Education 0 0.0%

Final Report Comparison: 2005-2016

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Careers (primary)

Graduate/Professional

School (primary)

Other Post-baccalaureate

Education

In Transition

Outcome Rate Diff

2005 71.6% 25.5% 2.9% 97.1% 1.7%

2006 76.1% 21.4% 2.5% 97.5% 1.6%

2007 78.2% 20.1% 1.7% 98.3% 0.9%

2008 72.7% 20.1% 1.3% 5.9% 94.1% 0.5%

2009 75.4% 19.9% 0.8% 3.9% 96.1% 2.6%

2010 74.3% 19.6% 0.3% 5.8% 94.2% 1.0%

2011 78.2% 17.8% 4.0% 96.0% 0.7%

2012 72.6% 20.8% 0.7% 5.9% 94.1% 1.3%

2013 75.3% 20.7% 0.5% 3.5% 96.5% 1.7% 2014 78.1% 18.7% 3.2% 96.8% 0.4%

2015 78.4% 18.4% 3.1% 96.9% 0.4%

2016 77.5% 19.6% 2.9% 97.1% 1.2%

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05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Graduate/prof. school

Total Outcome

Careers(primary)

In Transition

Top Career Industries and Functions

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Rank Job Function % of Respondents # of Respondents

1 Teaching/Coaching/Training 16% 43

2 Sales 9% 24

3 Research/Analysis 8% 22

4 Customer Service 7% 19

4 Financial Services 5% 13

5 Administration Management 4% 12

5 Consulting 4% 11

7 Business Development 3% 9

7 Marketing/Brand Management 3% 9

The top career industries represented by the Class of 2016 for those employed are below. Each industry represents the type of employer where each graduate is working as their primary status.

Graduates were also asked about their specific job function. The top job functions for the class are listed below for primary status as employed.

Rank Field % of Respondents # of Respondents

1 Education 18% 49

2 Finance/Banking 12% 33 3 Sports and Recreation 7% 18 4 Health Care 6% 16

5 Government/Public Administration 5% 14

6 Social/ Human Services 4% 11

7 Advertising 3% 9

7 Insurance 3% 9

7 Marketing 3% 9

7 Staffing and Executive Search 3% 9

7 Technology 3% 9

Employment Type

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Employment Type

More St. Lawrence University graduates in the Class of 2016 identified their “employment type” as either “entrepreneur” or “temporary/contract work” than the previous year, with 6 percent of those listing their primary job as employed full-time (16 of 257 students) calling themselves entrepreneurs. Only 2 percent (5 of 283 students) of the 2015 class identified that way. Combined, 15 percent listing their primary job as full-time employment in the Class of 2016 were either “entrepreneurs” or “temporary/contract work” compared to 9 percent in 2015. Overall, across all primary and secondary jobs and all full-time and part-time positions, 5.4 percent of the entire class self-identified as entrepreneurs, 9.5 percent were in post-baccalaureate intern-ships (mostly paid), and about 12 percent had temporary/contract work. The significant points here are that more graduates in 2016 fall in work categories outside of traditional or “regular” part-time or full-time em-ployment than in the year before. This may signal a new trend, perhaps even a more universal trend about the changing nature of work and job types, although we will need more data over time to know for sure.

Satisfaction levels remained relatively constant, with 94 percent of those employed indicating they are gener-ally or very satisfied with their work, compared to 95 percent in 2015.

Salary Information

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Salary Information

The overall median salary range for those in full-time employment increased from $37,000-37,999 in 2015 to $40,000-40,999 in 2016. The median entry salary of $40,500 exceeded the previous year by $3,000.

Sampling of Jobs

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Industry Company/Organization Job Title Location

Accounting Ernst and Young Intern - FSO Boston, MA Advertising Indeed.com Account Executive Stamford, CT Omnicom Media Group Assistant Buyer New York, NY TMP Worldwide Inc. Account executive Waltham, MA Yelp inc. Account Executive New York, NY Agriculture & Natural Resources The Nature Conservancy Development Coordinator Boston, MA Wüstner Brothers Honey Beekeeper's Assistant Missoula, MT West Coast Wildlife Centre Customer Service and Junior Assistant Kiwi

Ranger Franz Josef, West Coast, New Zealand

Arts & Entertainment EDG Art Self-Employed artist Newport RI ICM Partners Assistant in Comedy Touring Los Angeles, CA LiveAuctioneers Cataloguer New York, NY Business Services Cushman Wakefield Senior Exec Assistant Atlanta, GA Forrester Research Senior Research Associate Cambridge, MA Communications/Media Ketchum Account Coordinator- Brand Department Washington DC NBC Sports Network Live Streaming Coordinator Stamford, CT Construction Foremost Builders Estimator and Designer West Lebanon, NH Schessl construction Assistant Waterloo NY Consulting Economic Consulting Services Research Assistant Washington, DC Russell Reynolds Associates Knowlege Analyst Washington, DC Signal Group Associate Washington, DC Consumer Goods New Balance Athletics Inc Account Service Representaive (French) Boston, MA Wayfair Business Analyst Boston, MA Education Anatolia College High School English Fellow Thessaloniki, Greece City Year AmeriCorps Member Boston, MA Minmahaw Education Foundation Teacher Thailand The New England Center for Children (3) Special Education Teacher Southborough, MA Williams College Assistant Coach Williamstown, MA Energy GlobalData Energy Business development manager New York, NY PowerOptions Policy Analyst Boston, MA Engineering Doble Engineering Chemist Watertown, MA Entrepreneur MassChallenge Executive Coordinator Boston, MA Environmental Environmental Defense Fund Admin for Creative Team New York, NY SolarCity Field Energy Specialist Albany NY US Environmental Protection Agency Economist Washington, DC

World Wildlife Fund Development Coordinator Washington, DC Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary Administrative Assistant/Grant Writer Red Lodge, MT

Fashion Marissa Webb Sales marketing for a fashion designer NYC Stitch Fix Client Services Agent Austin, TX, USA Finance/Banking Carlyle Group Junior Analyst Washington, DC Congressional Bank Account manager Columbus, Ohio Eaton Vance Research Associate Boston, MA General Electric Energy Financial Services Risk Analyst Stamford, CT Goldman Sachs Analyst Salt Lake City, UT Morgan Stanley Client Service Associate Boston, MA State Street Finance Rotation Development Program Boston, MA Food and Beverage Ace Eat Serve Server Denver, CO Gwyn's High Alpine Baker Snowmass Village, CO TGI Friday's bartender Aurora Colorado Government/Public Administration ECO AmeriCorps Americorps Member, Program Assistant Middlebury VT Peace Corps Dominican Republic U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Outreach Coordinator Cortland, NY US Senate Staff Assistant Washington, DC

Sampling of Jobs

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Industry Company/Organization Job Title Location

Health Care athenahealth Healthcare Transactions associate Watertown, MA Boston Children's Hospital Clinical Research Study Assistant Boston, MA University of Utah Heathcare Psychiatric Technician Salt Lake City, UT Hotel, Restaurant, Hospitality Bordeaux Bakery Front of House Wellington, New Zealand Omni Mount Washington Barista Bretton Woods, NH Steamboat Resort rental/retail hybrid Steamboat Springs, CO Insurance Amica Mutual Insurance Adjuster Westborough, MA Liberty mutual Analyst Boston, MA Legal Buckley Sandler Paralegal Washington, D.C. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bersen & Loewy, LLP Legal Assistant New York, NY Sullivan and Cromwell LLP Litigation Legal Assistant New York, NY Manufacturing Pratt and Whitney Canada Logistics and Distribution South Burlington, VT, USA Marketing CSM Sport and Entertainment Account Coordinator Westport, CT Fenway Sports Management Sales Associate Boston, MA PepsiCo Brand Marketing Analyst White Plains, NY Museums and Libraries Peggy Guggenheim Collection Intern Venice, Italy Art Institute of Chicago Chicago，IL Other Attitash Mountain Resort Ski Patrol Bartlett, NH Audley Travel Office Administrator to Country Specialist Boston, MA Elizabeth Dole Foundation Operations Administrator Washington, DC Ski Butlers Ski Technician Steamboat Springs, CO

Print & Publishing Inc. Magazine Sales &a Marketing Coordinator New York, NY Time Inc. Sales Assistant New York, NY Public Relations Di Petroff PR PR Assistant New York, NY FleishmanHillard Assistant Account Executive Washington, DC Real Estate Avison Young Associate Morristown, NJ The Yellowstone Club Sales Intern Big Sky, MT Research Dana Farber Cancer Institute Research Technician Boston, MA West Virginia U Research Corporation Astronomy Technician Green Bank, WV NYU Langone Medical Center Research Associate New York, NY Retail/Wholesale Target Corporation IT Project Coordinator Brooklyn Park, MN Social/Human Services Autism Speaks Special Events Assistant New York, NY Casa de Esperanza Hands of Hope Intern Houston, TX Congressional Hunger Center Hunger Fellow Washington DC

Sports & Recreation Alta Lead Sales Associate Alta, UT Florida Panthers Hockey Club Hockey Operations Intern Sunrise, FL Greenville Swamprabbits Professional hockey player Greenville, SC

Staffing and Executive Search Eliassen Group Resource Specialist Boston, MA The Talener Group Relationship Manager Boston, MA Indeed.com Client Operations Coordinator Stamford, CT Technology IBM Solution sales New York, NY NetSuite | Oracle Business development representative Centennial, CO Placester Business Development Boston, MA Telecommunications Verizon Systems Engineer Basking Ridge, NJ

Graduate/Professional School Attendance

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Program Type 2013 2014 2015 2016 2012

Arts & Humanities 8 4 4 6 4

Business 6 7 5 5 8

Education 22 11 20 18 20

Health-Related 6 19 12 13 14

Law 4 4 8 1 10

Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmacy/Veterinary 8 12 10 12 7

Science & Technology 18 24 13 24 20

Social Sciences 9 5 8 8 13

Other Graduate Programs 3 2 5 2 4

Not Indicated 2 0 0 0 4

Total Graduate/Professional School 86 88 85 89 104 *Percentage of class attending graduate/professional school 20.0% 20.7% 19.1% 21.8% 24.2%

*Total percentage of class attending graduate/professional school as primary and secondary function.

Graduate/Professional School Programs

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*Total percentage of class attending graduate/professional school as primary and secondary function.

Graduate Program Type Number Attending % of Attending Science & Technology 24 27.0%

Education 18 20.2%

Health-Related 13 14.6%

Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmacy/Veterinary 12 13.5%

Social Sciences 8 9.0%

Arts & Humanities 6 6.7%

Business 5 5.6%

Law 1 1.1%

Other Graduate Programs 2 2.2%

Not Indicated 0 0.0%

Total Graduate/Professional School 89 100%

**Based on all full-time and part-time graduate school attendance.

Business6%

Law1%

Medicine13%

Health-Related15%

Education20%

Arts &Humanities7%

Science & Technology27%

Social Sciences9%

Other Graduate Programs2%

Graduate/Professional School Acceptance Rates

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Graduate Program Type

# Students who Applied1

# Accepted to one or more schools

Acceptance Rate

Business 6 5 83.3%

Law 2 2 100.0%

Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmacy/Veterinary 18 13 72.2%

Education 15 15 100.0%

Other Masters Programs 50 49 98.0%

Doctoral Programs 8 6 75.0%

Other Professional Fields (BSN, etc.) 9 9 100.0%

Total Applicants (unduplicated count) 101 95 94.1%

Sampling of Graduate Programs

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Name of School Program Degree

Arts&Humanities Brown University Religious Studies Ph.D.

Education Boston College Higher Education Administration Masters

Boston University TESL Masters Masters

Simmons College Special Education Masters

Tufts University Education Masters

University College London Developmental and Educational Psychology MSc

University of Pennsylvania Education Masters in Education

Health-Related Dartmouth College The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

MPH

Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health Global Health Master of Public Health (MPH)

Indiana University Public Health Masters

Naropa University Mental Health and Counseling - Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy

Masters

Spaulding University Clinical Psychology Doctorate

University of Ottawa Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Master's of Science

Law Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law family law Juris Doctor

MBA Florida Atlantic University MBA Sport Management MBA

Northeastern University MSA/MBA Accounting and MBA

Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmacy/Veterinary

Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island

Veterinary Medicine Professional Prog DVM

New England College of Optometry Optometry OD

Trevecca Nazarene University Physician Assistant

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Doctor of Medicine MD

Upstate Medical University College of Medicine (MD) MD

Science & Technology Duke University Biostatistics Master

Johns Hopkins Biotechnology M.S. in Biotechnology

University of Cambridge Master of Advanced Study in Applied Mathe-matics

Masters

University of Copenhagen Masters in Human Biology Masters in Human Biology

University of Georgia Invertebrate Paleontology Masters in geology

University Pierre and Marie Curie - Sorbonne University Masters of Cellular and Molecular Biology in Cell and Stem Cell Biology

Masters of Science

Yale University Statistics MA

Internships

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Number of Respondents who Completed Internships

Of the 405 respondents to this question, 265 individuals (65.4%) reported that they had completed at least one internship. This represents a decrease from the Class of 2015, which was nearly 70.0%.

The average number of internships per student was 1.64 for members of the Class of 2016, up from 1.44% in 2015.

The full breakdown of the number of internships per student for the Class of 2016 is: 133 respondents (55%) completed one internship, 69 (29%) completed two, 24 (10%) completed three, 10 (4%) completed four, and 3 (1%) completed five. Students completed a total of 404 internships.

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Class of 2013 Class of 2014 Class of 2015 Class of 2016

Completed one or more internships while attending St. Lawrence

Alumni sponsored

7% SAINTSLink6%

SLU Off-Campus/Abroad

Program22%

Fac/Staff Contact14%

Parent/Relative/ Friend Contact

27%

Direct Application24%

HOW DID STUDENTS OBTAIN THE INTERNSHIP 2016

Sampling of Internships

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Adirondack Wildlife Refuge African Wildlife Foundation Albany Medical College American Lung Association

Amsterdam News Angelo, Gordon & Co. Bloomberg BMO Capital Markets BOMA Project Boston Children's Hospital Brooklyn DA's office Brown Brothers Harriman Canaras Capital Management

Inc. Magazine Jaguar Rescue Center Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Jones & Bartlett Learning Kantar Retail Laikipia Wildlife Forum Leadership Africa USA Library of Congress London Labor Party Lucror Capital Luther Law Firm MA Audubon Madison Square Garden Company Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust MassChallenge

Merrill Lynch

Canton Potsdam Hospital Central Park Conservancy China Merchant Bank Christies Auction House Congressman Leonard lance Congresswoman Louise Slaughter Conservative Party London Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Dempsey and Carroll Denmark Youth Contact Center Department of State Diane Von Furstenberg El Instituto Salvador Dalí ENDA Tiers Monde Endocrine Society Summer Fellow Engineers Gate LP

Erie Canal Museum

Estee Lauder - London

Federal Reserve

Fidelity Investments

First Data

Florida Panthers

Frederic Remington Museum

GardenShare

GE Energy Financial Services

General Electric Africa

General Henry Knox Museum

Graham Capital Management

Habitat for Humanity of the North Country

Half Full Brewery

Morgan Stanley Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

National Museum of Dance

Nature Up North

New Britain Museum of American Art

Office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Office of US Senator Elizabeth Warren

Oregon Sea Grant

PepsiCo

Pfizer Pharmaceutical inc.

PowerOptions

RBC Global Asset Management

Saatchi & Saatchi

St. Lawrence County Planning Office St. Lawrence County Public Health Department

IBM Il Cigno G.G. Edizioni iMedRIS Data Corporation

The Blue Elephant Theatre

Thomson Reuters

Time Magazine

TMP Worldwide

Tory Burch

U.S. Congress

UBS Wealth Management

United Technologies Aerospace Systems

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps

Warren County District Attorney's Office

Wayfair

Wells Fargo

Mission Media, UK

Wohler Realty