This report presents the results of tracking graduates from the six initial providers supported by Skills for Jobs (S4J) project, starting with the 2015 – 2016 cohort. It summarizes key findings from the 2023 Tracer Study and highlights significant trends that have emerged between 2016 and 2022. Some of the key findings are as follows:

1. 71.2% of graduates were employed or self-employed within a year of graduation.
2. Graduates from the Tourism & Hospitality (80%), Electrotechnics (72.9%), and ICT (64.4%) programs reported the highest employment rates among the 2022-2023 cohorts.
3. Apprenticeships in business have become the second most popular method for the 2023 graduates, at 12%, after “personal connections”. This method has increased from 7% in 2016 to 18% in 2022 before slightly decreasing to 12% in 2023. Among the 2023 graduates who found their first job through an apprenticeship in business, a notable 59.5% were still employed with the same business at the time of the interview.
4. Over the period from 2016 to 2023, there has been a substantial increase in the percentage of graduates earning more than 80,001 ALL, rising from 2.3% to 25.6%.
5. In 2023, 62.3% of graduates reported that their jobs were related to their field of study, an increase of 6 percentage points from the previous year’s 55.7%.
6. In 2023, 70.2% of graduates were either ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ with their jobs.
7. In 2023, 78.7% of graduates would choose the same school again, an increase from 76.8% in 2022.
8. The top goal for 2023 graduates over the next two years was ‘starting their own business’ (44.6%), increasing from 16.4% in 2016.

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