Your Guidance Looks Right. But Is It Aligned?
Many career centers follow best practices and still see disappointing outcomes. The gap between what you teach and how employers actually evaluate candidates is often invisible — until results don't improve.
The Problem Isn't Quality. It's Relevance.
Employment outcomes don't improve because a resume is perfectly formatted. They improve when a resume speaks the language of the employer. Most career centers invest heavily in resources, workshops, and advising — but three structural gaps persist.
The Demand Gap
Most students make career decisions independently — relying on templates, Google, and peers instead of career services.
~33% of students never engage at allThe Supply Gap
At current ratios, deep individualized guidance simply cannot scale to reach every student who needs it.
~1:2,000 advisor-to-student ratioThe Alignment Gap
Career services optimizes for standardization and best practices. Employers evaluate using context-specific, variable criteria.
Students are taught one way, evaluated anotherThis assessment measures how well your center's guidance aligns to what employers actually evaluate — across 8 dimensions and 4 pillars of employer alignment. It takes about 3 minutes.
Your Employer Alignment Results
Dimension Breakdown
Where to Focus
For each dimension where your score fell below full alignment, here's what employer-aligned looks like — and an AI prompt you can use to build an action plan.
Your Comprehensive Action Plan Prompt
Copy this prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant to generate a complete improvement roadmap based on your specific results.
See Employer Alignment in Action
Jobscan helps career centers close the alignment gap with tools built on real employer data — ATS parsing intelligence, JD-based scoring, and scalable career readiness technology.
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