Career Forge is a career management platform that connects students, career services staff, and employers through a centralized system featuring event management, coaching, and employer relationship tools. It addresses the inefficiencies in career services by streamlining workflows and enhancing data-driven decision-making, allowing professionals to focus on building meaningful student relationships.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
University career services departments often manage multiple disconnected tools for events, coaching, experiential learning, employer relations, and job postings, leading to fragmented workflows, high administrative overhead, and limited ability to track outcomes.
Solution
Career Forge offers a unified, web‑based platform that consolidates all core career services functions into a single interface. The system provides modular tools for event management, student coaching, experiential learning tracking, employer relationship management, job board engagement, and outcome reporting. By centralizing data, staff can automate routine tasks, generate real‑time analytics, and focus on high‑value activities such as building student relationships and enhancing employer experiences. The platform’s intuitive design reduces the time spent on software maintenance while delivering scalable solutions that grow with the institution’s needs.
Target Audience
Career Forge is designed for university career services offices, including career counselors, program managers, and employer liaison teams that require a consolidated solution to manage student‑employer interactions at scale.
Features
- Integrated event scheduling and registration with automated communications
- Coaching module for managing appointments, notes, and progress tracking
- Experiential learning management to record internships, co‑ops, and project experiences
- Employer relationship management tools for outreach, tracking interactions, and partnership analytics
- Job board integration that aggregates postings and enables targeted student engagement
- First‑destination and outcomes reporting with customizable dashboards and exportable data
- Workflow automation features to streamline approvals, notifications, and data entry