Version 2.0 · Launching August 15, 2026
The complete NACE career readiness assessment platform: student self-assessment, employer and faculty feedback, national benchmarks, and accreditation-ready reporting. Self-signup for any institution. No demo call. No contract. No cost, ever.
100% free · Unlimited students · Every feature included
What it is
The Career Readiness Report is a free career readiness assessment platform for colleges and universities. It measures the eight NACE Career Readiness Competencies through student self-assessment plus 360-degree feedback from employers and faculty, and returns national benchmarks and accreditation-ready reporting. It is free for every institution, with no per-student cost and no contract.
The instrument
The recognized national standard for what makes a graduate ready for work, measured consistently so results mean the same thing at every institution.
The NACE Career Readiness Competency framework is the intellectual property of the National Association of Colleges and Employers. This platform is an independent implementation and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NACE.
Everything included
Every capability here is free for every institution, with no upgrade path, because there is nothing to upgrade to. What follows is split honestly into what ships on August 15, 2026 and what lands later in 2026.
All eight NACE Career Readiness Competencies, measured across 25 validated items on a five-point frequency scale. The national standard, implemented faithfully.
Students invite internship supervisors, employers, mentors and faculty to rate the same competencies. Secure single-use links, no account required for raters.
The insight students actually need: where their self-perception diverges from how the people who work with them see them. Blind spots and hidden strengths, surfaced clearly.
Your logo, your colors, your institution name throughout. Students see your program, on your own subdomain or your own custom domain.
Organize by class, program, cohort or academic term. Track the same student across multiple experiences and watch growth over their whole degree.
Assessment is tied to a real experience: an internship, co-op, job, course or campus activity. Context makes the data meaningful.
CSV import for students, cohorts and terms, with validation that tells you exactly what went wrong before anything is written.
A polished PDF students are proud to share, plus a LinkedIn-ready summary. Their data belongs to them and follows them after graduation.
Strict tenant isolation, complete audit logging, configurable retention, and full student data export and deletion. Built for a security review, not around one.
Compare a student to their cohort, a cohort to your institution, and your institution to anonymized national norms by competency, major and institution type.
Purpose-built exports for AACSB, ABET and regional accreditors. Map competencies to your learning outcomes and produce the evidence your assessment office needs.
Every student receives a personalized development narrative for each competency: specific strengths, concrete actions and curated learning resources.
SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Shibboleth, InCommon, Azure AD and Google Workspace. Publish our metadata to your identity team and students sign in with their campus credentials.
Add your own competencies alongside the NACE eight. Institution-specific outcomes, high-impact practices and accreditation items, all in one instrument.
A documented REST API and webhooks so career readiness data flows into your SIS, your data warehouse and your existing dashboards.
Who it serves
For students
See how you rate yourself against how employers and faculty rate you, get specific development actions for every competency, and leave with a report worth putting in front of a recruiter.
For career services
Stand up your institution in an afternoon. Import a roster, launch an assessment window and see competency development across cohorts, majors and demographics.
For assessment and accreditation
Map the NACE competencies to your program learning outcomes and export the direct and indirect evidence AACSB, ABET and regional accreditors expect, with national comparison built in.
Why free
Career readiness measurement sits behind five-figure contracts and demo calls. That keeps it out of reach of exactly the institutions whose students need it most. We think that is backwards, so we removed the price.
Not a trial, not a freemium tier, not free for the first hundred students. The entire platform, every feature, unlimited students, permanently at no cost.
Student data is never sold, never brokered and never used to train third-party models. Benchmarks are computed from anonymized, aggregated data with minimum cohort thresholds.
No ads, no sponsored content, no upsells inside the student experience. Nobody is marketed to.
Full export at any time in open formats. If you leave, you take everything with you, including a complete archive for your records.
Questions
Yes. Every feature, unlimited students, no time limit and no credit card. There is no paid tier waiting behind a door.
The platform is built and maintained by Champlin Enterprises and runs at genuinely low cost. We believe career readiness measurement should not be gated behind a five-figure contract, and we are funded by our other software products rather than by this one.
It stays yours. We never sell it, never broker it and never hand it to third-party model training. National benchmarks use anonymized aggregates with minimum cohort sizes so no individual or small group is identifiable.
Yes. The instrument measures all eight NACE Career Readiness Competencies. The framework is NACE's; this platform is an independent implementation of it and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NACE.
Yes. Employers, supervisors and faculty rate a student through a secure single-use link with no signup and no password.
Yes. Your logo, colors and institution name throughout, on your own subdomain or a custom domain you control.
Yes, optionally. SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, covering Shibboleth, InCommon, Azure AD and Google Workspace. You can also run without SSO entirely.
Version 2.0 is a complete rebuild on a modern stack. If your institution has historical data, we will migrate it. Get in touch and we will handle it before launch.
Opening August 15, 2026
Leave your institutional email and we will send your signup link the morning we open, plus a short guide to standing up your first assessment window. One email at launch. Nothing else.
