For Post-Secondary Career Centres

Your graduates need more than application advice.
They need a readiness record.

COMPAS PSE turns graduate readiness, role criteria, evidence gaps, interview preparation, and advising actions into structured records career centres can review, explain, and report on.

  • Evaluate graduate readiness against role-specific criteria
  • Separate documented evidence from assumptions and weak framing
  • Generate student-ready action plans and advisor-ready records
  • Create programme-level documentation from the same advising workflow
Advisor Review

Graduate Readiness

Sample Evaluation
Readiness Index66Amber
Green

Relevant coursework and project evidence documented

Amber

Role-specific examples require stronger framing

Red

Interview proof points not yet prepared

Advisor Priority

Verify strongest evidence examples before rewriting the student-facing narrative.

Most career centres already support readiness.
The record is the missing layer.

Advisors make judgement calls every day. The challenge is that readiness, evidence, role fit, interview preparation, and next steps are often documented differently across advisors, faculties, and programmes.

Readiness

Can the graduate show evidence against the role they are targeting — not just present a polished resume?

Evidence

Which strengths are documented, which claims need verification, and which gaps are only framing issues?

Record

Can the advisor, student, programme lead, or review team understand what was assessed and what changed?

One advising workflow.
Four structured outputs.

COMPAS turns one graduate evaluation into the documents students, advisors, and institutional leaders need before, during, and after support.

ADVISOR RECORDSample Evaluation

Graduate Readiness Review

A structured advisor-facing record showing fit, evidence quality, gaps, readiness status, and next-session priorities.

STUDENT OUTPUTSample Evaluation

Student Action Plan

A plain-language roadmap that turns the evaluation into specific resume updates, evidence tasks, and interview preparation.

SESSION INTELLIGENCESample Evaluation

Interview Readiness Notes

Practice questions, success signals, and watch areas tied to documented readiness gaps — not generic mock interview prompts.

PROGRAMME DATASample Evaluation

Institutional Outcome Record

A reviewable record of what was assessed, what changed, and which cohort-level gaps are appearing across advising sessions.

What COMPAS actually does for institutions.

COMPAS turns student information, target roles, documented evidence, advisor review, and next steps into one governed readiness record.

01

Inputs

Student background, resume, target role, advising context, and programme goals are captured in one structured record.

02

Evaluation Logic

Role criteria are mapped to graduate evidence, documentation gaps, readiness signals, and support needs.

03

Advisor Review

The advisor sees what is strong, what is missing, what requires verification, and what should happen next.

04

Structured Outputs

Advisor records, student plans, interview notes, and programme documentation are generated from the same record.

See what a governed student evaluation produces.

Outputs are tied to role criteria, evidence, readiness status, advisor review, and next action — not generic resume advice.

Student Readiness
66
AmberEvidence present

Student shows relevant academic and project evidence. Overall readiness remains Amber because interview examples and role-specific proof need strengthening.

Priority Gaps
  • Role-specific project examples need sharper framing
  • Interview proof points are not yet prepared
  • Resume claims require evidence-backed wording
  • Target-role criteria need stronger alignment
Student Action Plan
  • Gather two verified project examples
  • Rewrite summary around documented strengths
  • Practise two interview stories
  • Confirm target-role criteria before applying
Institutional Signal
Evidence Quality

Amber

Interview Readiness

Red

Advisor Follow-Up

Required

How It Works

Five steps. One consistent advising workflow.

The same structured process supports every student, every advisor, and every programme review.

01

Capture Context

Collect the graduate profile, target role, resume, constraints, and advising objective.

02

Map Criteria

Separate required criteria, preferred criteria, readiness indicators, and review areas.

03

Validate Evidence

Distinguish documented strengths from assumptions, missing proof, and weak framing.

04

Plan the Session

Give the advisor a clear agenda for what to verify, strengthen, or avoid overstating.

05

Generate Records

Produce student-facing and institution-facing outputs from the same governed evaluation.

Governed advising means the record holds up.

COMPAS helps career centres keep readiness evaluation structured, evidence-led, student-aware, and reviewable across advisors and programmes.

Advisor judgement stays in the workflow

COMPAS structures the evaluation record. Advisors remain responsible for final guidance and student support decisions.

Evidence is separated from assumption

The system distinguishes documented readiness from unsupported claims, missing proof, and role-specific verification needs.

Recommendations are reviewable

Each action connects back to a criterion, evidence gap, readiness signal, or advising objective.

Programme consistency improves

Teams use the same evaluation structure without forcing every student into the same support path.

Built for students, advisors, and programme leaders.

Students

Receive clear, actionable next steps based on the role they are pursuing.

Advisors

Use one consistent evaluation structure without losing professional judgement.

Programmes

Gain structured readiness signals that can support reporting and continuous improvement.

Questions career centres ask before adopting.

Does COMPAS replace career advising?

No. It gives advisors a structured readiness record so the conversation starts with evidence, not guesswork.

Is this only for resume review?

No. Resume positioning is one output. The core value is role-fit evaluation, evidence review, interview readiness, and outcome documentation.

Can students understand the output?

Yes. Student-facing actions are written in plain language and tied to what the student can improve, verify, practise, or prepare.

How does this support institutional reporting?

Each session creates structured fields that can inform readiness patterns, advising impact, cohort gaps, and programme-level review.

Does this work across disciplines?

Yes. COMPAS evaluates against the target role criteria, so the same structure can support business, health, technology, trades, arts, and other pathways.

What does the career centre receive?

An advisor record, student action plan, interview readiness notes, and institutional documentation generated from one governed evaluation.

Get Started

Your graduates are building evidence.
Make sure the record shows it.

COMPAS PSE helps career centres turn graduate readiness into structured, explainable records and practical next steps.

Career advisors remain responsible for final guidance and student support decisions.