An easy way to display
career & alumni information on your website.
Customized. Relevant. Always up to date.
Prospective students care about career outcomes. Show them what's possible.
Students expect a college education to lead to a worthwhile career. Earn their trust by showing the connection between your academic programs and career outlooks. With Widget Builder, you can display trusted career and alumni outcome data from Lightcast anywhere on your website.
Scroll down to learn about the three types of widgets you can customize and embed using the Widget Builder.
Program Widget
The Program Widget gives you the power to customize a visual display of career information, embeddable on your website—no web developer needed. Deploy a curated selection of career data, including:
Wages (hourly or salary)
Job openings
Current employment
10-year projected outlook
Option for national and regional data
Assessment Widget
The Assessment Widget gives you the power to provide an embedded career exploration experience, starting with learners' interests.
Brief, 6-question interest assessment makes it easy for users to get started
Assessment is based on Holland Occupational Themes (RIASEC traits)
Matches users’ interests to 16 career categories, ranked in order of match quality
For Career Coach subscribers, the Program and Assessment widgets can be set to link directly to your full Career Coach site, offering current and prospective students an even more in-depth career exploration experience.
Alumni Widget
The Alumni Widget offers the same easy implementation, but with a data set that proves value by displaying program-specific alumni career pathways:
Average estimated salary (range band or single number)
Percentage of alumni employed in a field related to their program of study
Percentage of alumni completing subsequent education (bachelor’s or graduate)
Top 6 companies employing alumni from the selected program(s)
Top 6 most common occupations for alumni of the program OR top 6 skills alumni report on their profiles, with descriptions and growth trends
The Alumni Widget is powered by Alumni Pathways – a software platform that delivers unparalleled, program-specific insight into where your students go after they transfer or graduate.
Powerful data integration, zero hassle
Trusted Lightcast data combined with a simple visual interface, Widget Builder is tailor-made for anyone with web content editing experience to build, customize, and embed career outlook information. Maintain your brand identity while harnessing the power of Lightcast's robust datasets. Our data offers seamless integration that’s always up to date.
Embeddable widget
Launch quickly with an easy-to-embed iframe code
Customization options
Choose from a variety of curated data points, relevant to your students
Always up-to-date data
Save time and rest easy knowing your widget is always up to date – no maintenance required
Built-in analytics
Back-end tools allow you to see usage and demonstrate ROI