Steppingblocks utilizes big data analytics and machine learning to provide actionable insights on graduate outcomes, career paths, and employer profiles. This platform enables educational institutions to enhance career services, support data-driven decision-making, and foster alumni engagement by quantifying the value of degrees through comprehensive workforce data.
Funding
$750K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Students and job seekers often lack clear insights into career paths, graduate outcomes, and the connection between education and employment, leading to uncertainty and potential underemployment. Educational institutions struggle to quantify the value of their programs and tailor their offerings to meet evolving workforce demands. Alumni relations teams need better tools to identify and engage potential donors based on their career success and philanthropic interests.
Solution
Steppingblocks provides a comprehensive data analytics platform that empowers students, educational institutions, and alumni relations teams with actionable insights derived from a vast database of career paths and graduate outcomes. The platform aggregates and analyzes over 150 million real career paths, 25 million employer profiles, and 30,000 job skills to provide users with a data-driven understanding of the career landscape. For students, Steppingblocks offers a digital career counselor that leverages personality assessments and alumni data to suggest potential career paths and skill-building strategies. For institutions, the platform facilitates data-driven decision-making by quantifying the value of degree programs and identifying trends in graduate employment. Alumni relations departments can use Steppingblocks to identify and engage alumni based on their career achievements and philanthropic potential, fostering a lifelong community of support.
Target Audience
Steppingblocks serves career services departments, institutional research teams, and alumni relations offices within higher education, as well as students and job seekers seeking data-driven career guidance.
Features
- Digital Career Counselor: Personality assessment to match interests with potential career paths.
- Career Path Analysis: Analyze over 150M career paths by job title, major, or school.
- Institutional Outcomes: Understand potential with relevant outcomes for institutional alumni.
- Skills Data: Insights into in-demand job skills and salary expectations.
- Alumni Engagement: Identify alumni working for donation-matching employers.
- Trend Identification: Identify trends by major, graduation year, employer, and location.
- Data Visualization: Summarize high-level demographic, geographic, and employment data.
- Reporting: Download detailed record-level data for actionable lists.