There are several reasons a student may be classified as Employment Status Unknown for the ABA Survey. This article will highlight the reasons that could happen.
Sections
1. Students without an Outcome
2. Student who have 'No Information Available'
3. Students who are 'Enrolled in Graduate Studies,' but have a start date after March 15
4. Students with a Blank Start Date
Students without an outcome
Students without an outcome in the system are classified as unknown. This can occur when no outcome is reported or when an 'At-Grad' Outcome is not copied to create a '10-Months' Outcome. For more information on this, visit How do I copy an ‘At Grad’ outcome to create a ‘10 Months’ outcome?
To identify these students use the Student Directory to filter for "Post Grad Reported Outcome = No Reported Outcomes/All"
Students who have 'No Information Available'
Students who have 'No Available Information' selected will also be classified as Unknown.
To identify these students use the Student Directory to filter for "Post Grad Reported Outcome = No Reported Outcomes/No Recent Information Available."
Additionally, this is how the Career Office would mark a student as Unknown, if they cannot get in touch with the student or gather information before the reporting deadline. The benefit of marking a student a student as 'No Information Available' is that the Career Office can leave an Outcome Note with their attempts to contact the student.
Students who have identified themselves as 'Enrolled in Graduate Studies,' but have a Start Date after March 15
If a student is showing as 'Unknown' who is 'Enrolled in Graduate Studies,' check that their Start Date is correct. This often happens when the Start Date or Year are entered wrong.
An employed student who has a blank or NULL start date
If a student is missing a start date, they will be classified as 'Unknown'.
To identify these students, search for "use the "Custom Outcome Report" to filter for "Outcome Type" = Job and Offer Status = Accepted, and include Start Date as a column in the report. You can export the report to filter the Start Date column for blank values.