Repeat of SOLD OUT sessions in August and September!

From 15% to 30% to now 57% attendance: What Actually Drives Student Engagement in Employability Programs

Most universities already have employability programs.

However the problem isn’t content - it’s getting students to actually show up.

Our first program got a 15% attendance rate.

That didn't make us happy, so we got to work!

4 months later we ran the same program at the same university and got 30% attendance...

...an outstanding result for a program that was:

FREE

ALL day

AND during peak study hours!

So, what did we do differently in the second program?

Join us and find out.

In this live interactive workshop we’ll share a real-world comparison across two university implementations and break down what we did to ACTUALLY change student attendance rates.

(The last free all day employability program we ran got 57% attendance - so we’ll be be sharing engagement lessons learned from that too)

Same program. Same university. Double the engagement.

We’ll unpack:

Why students don’t attend employability programs (even when they register)
What actually moved attendance from 15% to 30%
The secrets behind 57% attendance
The role of event sequencing in improving attendance rates
The role of “pre-event momentum” in participation rates
Critical program elements that boosted employability in just one day

You'll take away:

By the end of this session, you’ll understand:

Why traditional employability workshops underperform on attendance
What a participation-first employability program looks like in practice
Practical ways universities can lift attendance and engagement without changing core content

Who is this for?

Employability and careers staff
International student support teams
Work-integrated learning coordinators
Faculty engagement staff
Anyone responsible for student participation in programs, including at PBSAs

About this session

This session is based on real delivery across multiple university contexts, including a comparative case study of engagement strategies and outcomes in employability programs.

Who's running this session

🌟 Karalyn Brown is a career coach based in Melbourne. Since 2010 she's helped 1000's of capable people who know what they want to do – but who've gotten stuck or don’t know how to get there. Typically, that's people not seen by recruiters as a “perfect fit” for the job on offer. They have a non-linear career, want to do something different, are new to Australia, or have limited/no experience in their target area.

She offers robust, strategically sequenced, confidence-boosting, easy-to-follow job search and networking programs.

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