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Steppingblocks Digital Career Counselor & Graduate Insights

Last modified 12/4/2024

Steppingblocks Digital Career Counselor

Steppingblocks Digital Career Counselor is an innovative AI-powered tool that helps students explore and plan their career paths by providing personalized insights based on their skills, interests, and academic background. It offers detailed information on job opportunities, salary projections, required skills, and industry trends that empower students to make informed decisions about their future career field. The Digital Career Counselor module is available to all current ISU Students, Faculty, and Staff automatically.

To log in, visit https://ilstu.steppingblocks.com/ and click Illinois State University Sign On and sign in with your University Email and password using Central Login

    1. For more information about Central Login at ISU, please refer to: Central Login

Steppingblocks Graduate Insights

Steppingblocks Graduate Insights focuses on data analytics to provide institutions with a clear picture of alumni career outcomes. It tracks trends such as salary progression, employment industries, geographic locations, and advanced education pursuits. It is commonly used by universities to assess program effectiveness as well as support data-driven improvements. For students, it highlights real-world applications of their degrees and offers some additional transparency about potential career trajectories. It is a powerful tool for both institutions and students to understand and leverage the connections between their education and career success. The Graduate Insights module is only available to current ISU faculty and staff and requires an access request. See Requesting Access below for more information on how to request access.

Requesting Access

Steppingblocks can be used by anyone who has an ISU login including students, faculty, and staff and should be automatically available to you without the need to request access.

However, Steppingblocks Graduate Insights module is only available to existing ISU faculty and staff. To gain access to the SteppingBlocks Graduate Insights module, please submit a ticket to the Technology Support Center via any of the contact methods below.

Please include:

  • Your ULID
  • Your name (first and last)
  • Your phone number
  • The reason you would like access to the Graduate Insights module within Steppingblocks

How to Get Help

Technical assistance is available through the Illinois State University Technology Support Center at: