First Destination Report: 2018-2019 Undergraduate Degree Recipients

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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The number of respondents (N) and percentage of respondents (%) are shown for each topic and question.

Response Rate
%
892 Total Graduates
404 45% Reported first destination / respondents
488 55% Unreported / non-respondents

Outcome

What are you primarily doing after graduation?
%
141 35% Working
4 1% Military
6 1% Volunteering
134 33% Continuing Education
0 0% Fellowship
83 21% Still Seeking Employment
34 8% Still Seeking Continuing Education
2 0% Not Seeking (traveling, gap year, taking time off, other)

Continuing Education Details

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Working Details

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Salary and Bonus

Question for working and military respondents.

Medians are shown when four or more individuals reported salary or bonus.
See Salary Detail Report which includes 25th and 75th percentiles where sufficient Ns were reported.
See Bonus Detail Report which provides more detail on numbers and percentages reporting.

%
101 70% Number and percent of working and military who reported salary.
Salary median for working and military: $40000
17 12% Number and percent of working who reported receiving a bonus above $0.
Bonus Median: $5000

Job Source

Question for working respondents

Regarding the job you accepted: Which best describes the way you first made contact with this employer?
%
18 13% Worked / volunteered with this employer in the past.
22 16% Knew / met the employer through someone I know (networking).
16 11% Career fair.
5 4% Handshake.
0 0% On-Campus Interviewing Program (employer interviewed in Smith Career Center).
16 11% Went directly to employer website.
13 9% Used job-seeker website, other than Handshake.
7 5% Information posted or messaged from my academic department.
4 3% Employer spoke at a presentation I attended.
40 28% Did not answer

Job Related to Career Goals

Question for working respondents

Do you consider your job to be related to your career goals?
%
74 52% Very
24 17% Somewhat
8 6% Not
35 25% Did not answer

Job Related to Major

Question for working respondents

Do you consider your job to be related to your major?
%
64 45% Very
26 18% Somewhat
15 11% Not
36 26% Did not answer

Number of Job Offers

Question for working respondents

As best as you recall, how many job offers have you received?
%
41 29% One
36 26% Two
15 11% Three
8 6% Four
5 4% Five or more
36 26% Did not answer

Career Planning and Preparation

Learned Job Search Skills | Source of Learning

Questions for working and still seeking employment respondents.

Which best describes the extent to which you learned job search skills during college?
%
52 23% Learned most that I needed.
111 50% Learned some, but not all, that I needed.
16 7% Learned nothing, or very little
45 20% Did not answer
If you learned job search skills, where did you learn them? Check all that apply.
%
81 36% Career & Professional Development; advising, presentations, website, resource center.
36 16% Career Planning Guide; booklet free to VT students from CPD.
12 5% Other books, magazines, print materials.
73 33% Websites external to Virginia Tech.
73 33% Academic-credit course in my major or college.
13 6% Not-for-credit program in my major or college.
98 44% Advisors, staff, professors in my major or college.
27 12% Other VT advisors, staff, professors, NOT in my major or college.
91 41% Employers, mentors at jobs, internships.
99 44% Parents, adult relatives, family friends.
77 34% Peers.
53 24% Did not answer

Advising on Continuing Education

Questions for continuing education respondents only.

Where did you get advice about graduate or professional school? Check all that apply.
%
68 51% Professors at Virginia Tech.
50 37% Academic advisors at Virginia Tech.
16 12% Pre-professional school advisors at Virginia Tech.
13 10% Career center advisors at Virginia Tech.
65 49% Professionals working in the field I want to pursue.
51 38% Faculty or staff at the graduate or professional schools I considered.
63 47% Websites of the graduate or professional schools I considered.
24 18% Websites about professions and graduate schools.
43 32% Parents, adult relatives
51 38% Peers.
4 3% Print information: books, magazines, etc.
9 7% Did not answer

Experience During College

Questions for all respondents

Did you have any type of career-related experience during college?
%
322 80% Yes
29 7% No
53 13% Did not answer
If yes, what types of experience did you have? Check all that apply.
%
181 45% Volunteer work
164 41% Part-time job
143 35% Summer job
0 0% Unpaid internship
179 44% Paid internship
5 1% Co-op
118 29% Undergraduate research
90 22% Field study
77 19% Did not answer
If you checked "UNPAID internship," how many did you have?
%
67 17% One
24 6% Two
8 2% Three
3 1% Four or More
302 75% Did not answer
If you checked "PAID internship," how many did you have?
%
89 22% One
25 6% Two
10 2% Three
2 0% Four or More
278 69% Did not answer

Used Career Center

Questions for all respondents.

As you recall: During college did you use any resources provided by Virginia Tech Career and Professional Development)? (could include advising, workshops, publications, website, Handshake, employment interviews, etc.)

%
65 16% Never
42 10% Don't recall or unsure
214 53% Yes, but not often
26 6% Yes, often
57 14% Did not answer

Regrets

Questions for all respondents.

If you could start over in college, is there anything you would do differently related to career planning

%
136 34% No. Mostly I did what I needed to achieve my goals.
209 52% Yes. I would do something differently.
59 15% Did not answer

If yes, please check all that apply. I wish I had...

%
156 39% Learned more, or earlier, about career options.
116 29% Learned more, or earlier, about graduate or professional school.
132 33% Asked advisors, staff, professors for advice, earlier, or more often.
136 34% Gotten more experience related to my major or career goals.
78 19% Started my job search earlier.
41 10% Used more or different job search resources.
168 42% Did not answer