Life After Graduation

Learn more about the benefits and services for alumni offered by CSUDH Alumni Relations Office.

Outcomes Survey

Every year, CSUDH Career Center administers a first destination survey, which captures how new college graduates enter their careers within six months of graduation. The annual initiative provides precise, concise, and consistent data on the outcomes associated with a college education on a national scale.

Outcomes include:

1. Types of employment—full or part-time, contract, freelance, etc.
2. Additional education, e.g., accepted to graduate or professional school
3. Still seeking either employment or further education
4. Starting salary for those employed full time.

Also, by providing outcomes for individual classes, the outcomes survey is designed to provide trends data over time to inform CSUDH about education and career readiness.

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Lifelong Learning Points

Below are several areas of key skills and competencies you will need in order to grow and be successful in your career. These are all areas in which you can continue to learn and evolve, and should be considered a part of your lifelong learning:

• Career & Self Development: Proactively develop oneself and one's career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one's strength and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without ones organization.
• Communication: Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization.
• Critical Thinking: Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.
• Equity & Inclusion: Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures. Engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism.
• Leadership: Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
• Professionalism: Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace.
• Teamwork: Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities. 
• Technology: Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.

Source: www.naceweb.org