‘There’s no going back’: The transformation of HE careers services using big data

Abstract

The capacity for UK Higher Education (HE) careers and employability services to collect and analyse career thinking and employability enhancing experience data – Careers Registration data - has provided unprecedented insight into levels of student career planning, (work) experience gained, and sectors of interest. This article draws on the research findings from the Careers Registration learning gain pilot project, to identify the ways in which careers and employability delivery has fundamentally changed since the introduction of Careers Registration, and considers the impact of big data for the future of HE careers and employability delivery.