Suggested graduate contact plan

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Providers play a vital part in the success of Graduate Outcomes. It’s important that providers are engaging with the cohort population directly in the build up to the contact period commencing. We know from our work looking at response rates, that engagement with the online survey is dependent on recognition of the Graduate Outcomes brand. Providers play a key role in legitimising the online survey via their own direct and trusted engagement routes.

To support providers in carrying out the suggested contact with graduates prior to being surveyed, we’ve created a simple contact plan to follow. This covers the suggested emails that providers should send to collect updated personal contact details and the recommended “warm up” contact shortly before the contact period starts.

These are based around the following points:

• 6 months after graduation / completion of the course
• Again at 12 months after graduation / completion of the course
• Two weeks before the start of the contact period

Under no circumstances should providers contact graduates once a cohort has commenced surveying. This is due to the risk of over-communication and the creation of potential bias. For more information about this, visit our operational FAQs. This shares more detail about what providers can / can't do during a cohort.

We’ve supplied a large number of promotional materials to help you carry out the warm up communications activity, including a suggested email template for use with the recommended emails. We’re keen to hear from providers who are getting success from this contact plan so we can share this best practice with the sector, and continually evolve it.

Providers are encouraged to adapt these materials to their needs but we ask that all contact made with graduates should, at a minimum, include the Graduate Outcomes logo to ensure you take the opportunity to establish brand awareness.

Suggested graduate contact plan

Below are the timings for the C20071 collection: 

Below are the timings for the C21071 collection:

This plan will be updated as we move through future collections.

Other vital promotional periods

Providers should also be promoting Graduate Outcomes to graduates during the following suggested points:

• During their time as a student
• During the student’s final weeks of teaching
• At graduation
• Embedded into any existing post-graduation engagement activity i.e. driven by Alumni teams / Careers services (if relevant)

Communications materials

Please use the links below to access all of the communications materials we have provided to you, including provider case studies.

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