Job-seeking students who want to know what the success rate is for others in their fields can look to an NIU publication for the answer.

Each year the Career Planning and Placement Center puts out a Graduate Follow-up Report. The report is based on a mail survey of the past year’s NIU graduates about their success in the job search and their job satisfaction.

“Students can come in and see what kinds of jobs others with their same majors are getting,” said Vickie Oliver, a placement counselor who prepares the report.

Students also can find information on the salaries those with the same degrees are earning, she said.

The graduates answer questions about whether they feel their employment is related to their college major and whether they consider themselves underemployed.

Copies of the follow-up report as well as copies of “Who’s Hiring NIU Graduates?” are available for students to look at in the placement center, she said.

“Who’s Hiring NIU Graduates?” uses some of the results of the graduate survey to list job titles and employers of recent graduates, she said.

The report for 1989 August and December and 1990 May graduates has just come out, Oliver said. Recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees are surveyed.

Forty-seven percent of the 3,683 students who received bachelor’s degrees in 1989-90 responded to the survey. Over half of those who received graduate degrees responded.

“That’s a normal response rate,” Oliver said.