Case Study: Shawnee State University boosts career services efficiency with Hiration

How Shawnee State Is Scaling Career Services for 3,000 Students With a Small Team

Shawnee State University, a public university in southern Ohio, faced a challenge in scaling personalized career services for its 3,000+ students with a small team. The career services staff was overwhelmed, struggling to provide foundational resume and interview support to students with varying levels of preparation. They turned to the vendor Hiration and its AI-powered platform to help offload this initial work and free up advisors for more high-impact coaching.

By implementing Hiration's AI tools, including a resume builder and mock interview platform, Shawnee State empowered students to take ownership of their career development. The results from the pilot were significant: students created 127 resumes, and the automated mock interviews alone saved over 40 hours of staff preparation time. This efficiency gain allowed the small team to serve three times more students and led to a 6% increase in career services appointments, demonstrating Hiration's measurable impact.

Shawnee State University

Austin Raines

Associate Director of Career Services