Case Study
80% of Students Were Graduating Without Career Support. Nobody Noticed.
Devslopes had no career services infrastructure. Coaching was ad-hoc, tracking was nonexistent, and hundreds of students were entering the job market without the support they had paid for. The gap was invisible until they looked.
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From 80% Unsupported
20%
Admin Waste Eliminated
100%
Centralized Platform
240
Active Jobseekers
The Challenge
No Tracking. No Accountability. No One Noticed.
Career support at Devslopes was informal, scattered across individual conversations. There was no system to track who was getting help and who wasn't. Beanie Brady, Director of Career Services and Partnerships, could see the problem but had no data to prove it.
With 240 active jobseekers and no infrastructure, the vast majority were getting zero structured career support. But because it was never measured, the gap was invisible. Students were falling through the cracks quietly, and no one had a way to know.
Coaching time was consumed by admin tasks instead of actual student interaction. The team was busy but not effective. And students were graduating and falling off a cliff with no follow-up, no tracking, and no way to know who landed a job and who didn't.
The Solution
The Graduated Access System
Basic Networking
From day one, students gain access to networking features and basic career resources, normalizing career preparation as part of the learning process.
Full Job Seeker Access
At two-thirds through the curriculum, students unlock the complete job seeker toolkit: job board access, application tracking, resume tools, and direct employer connections.
Alumni Access
After graduation, students transition to alumni-level access with continued resources, community connection, and ongoing support.
Accountability Measures
Weekly Coding Challenges
Students participate in weekly coding challenges tracked within Prentus, keeping skills sharp while giving coaches visibility into participation.
Daily Group Coaching
Daily group coaching calls create a rhythm of engagement and peer accountability, with attendance tracked directly in the platform.
The Results
From Zero Infrastructure to Cohesive Program
5x
Student Engagement
Four out of five students had been getting zero meaningful career support. Not because the team didn't care, but because there was no system to deliver it. The 5x engagement jump didn't come from making career services more appealing. It came from making them actually reachable for the first time.
100%
Centralized Platform
Before Prentus, student progress data didn't exist in any usable form. Tracking was scattered across conversations, notes, and memory. The real cost wasn't the admin burden. It was the complete lack of visibility into which students needed help and weren't getting it.
20%
Less Administrative Work
One in five hours of the career services team's time was being consumed by manual coordination that a platform should handle. Beanie Brady's team was doing the work of career coaches and data entry clerks simultaneously. Once the busywork was stripped out, they could finally focus on the students who needed them.
Career services went from a fragmented set of tasks into a cohesive, student-centered experience. The graduated access model changed how our students think about career readiness.
Beanie Brady
Director of Career Services and Partnerships, Devslopes
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