July 20, 2026
Canadian postsecondary institutions keep growing the alumni pool that their careers services and alumni relations teams are asked to keep engaged. Total postsecondary enrolments reached 2.3 million students in 2023/2024, up 5.8% from 2.2 million the year before, and 662,751 students graduated from Canadian public postsecondary institutions in 2023, up 7.4% on 2022 (source: Statistics Canada, Canadian postsecondary enrolments and graduates 2023/2024, 2025). Bachelor's or equivalent graduates alone numbered 226,971 in 2023, and for the first time since 2014 short-cycle tertiary graduates outnumbered bachelor's graduates, so alumni pools are becoming more mixed by credential (source: Statistics Canada, Canadian postsecondary enrolments and graduates 2023/2024, 2025).
The alumni pool grows with every cohort. Canadian university enrolments in 2023/2024 reached 1,152,105 Canadian students plus 284,160 international students, a total of about 1.44 million, while colleges enrolled 611,718 Canadian students plus 288,801 international students (source: Statistics Canada, Canadian postsecondary enrolments and graduates 2023/2024, 2025). Graduates in 2023 numbered 662,751 across colleges and universities, including 226,971 with a bachelor's or equivalent degree (source: Statistics Canada, Canadian postsecondary enrolments and graduates 2023/2024, 2025). For an alumni network, the constraint is rarely the size of the audience, it is access to genuine, still-open roles to place graduates into.
Spacewalk gives your institution a private, branded alumni job board, so your team spends its time engaging graduates rather than curating aggregated listings.
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Whether you choose to stream roles automatically, invite employers or post them yourself they are automatically matched to your talent pool
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Unlike generic job boards, Spacewalk gives you a branded, private or public jobs marketplace your talent actually trust, with sourcing, matching and reporting running automatically in the background.
Canadian universities and colleges sit under a mix of privacy regimes. Publicly-funded institutions are generally covered by their provincial public-sector privacy legislation and, where health information is involved, by provincial health privacy law. Where an institution or its alumni association carries on commercial activity that touches personal information, PIPEDA applies at the federal level and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada oversees it (source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, PIPEDA requirements in brief).
Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia have substantially similar provincial private-sector privacy laws that apply within those provinces, so an alumni programme running commercial activity there needs to follow the provincial statute (source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, PIPEDA requirements in brief). Right-to-work verification remains with the hiring employer, not the institution or Spacewalk. This is context, not legal advice.
This is an illustrative scenario, not a customer story. A Canadian university alumni team stands up a branded board and invites its graduating cohort before final results. Instead of emailing job links, staff watch an employer-direct feed match each graduate to live, relevant roles, and see application and interview activity by faculty. When the institution asks for evidence of employability support, the team exports landings by cohort rather than assembling screenshots at year end.
With graduate-level data. Spacewalk tracks registrations, board usage, applications, interviews and landings by cohort and faculty, so your team can show what happened to graduates rather than reporting engagement activity alone.
Because the roles are curated and employer-direct rather than re-listed from public platforms. Each graduate sees verified, active vacancies matched to their discipline, credential level and location, which a generic board cannot offer.
Yes. Your alumni community gets a private, branded board carrying your institution's identity rather than a generic job site.
From an employer-direct stream of verified, active roles with direct apply links, matched to each graduate's discipline, credential level and location. Your team can also invite employers to post, but roles are not scraped from job boards or aggregators.
No. Right-to-work verification stays with the hiring employer under Canadian immigration and employment rules. Spacewalk connects graduates to live vacancies and tracks their progress.
It depends on the institution and the activity. Publicly-funded institutions sit under provincial public-sector privacy law, while commercial activity touching personal information is covered by PIPEDA. Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia have substantially similar provincial private-sector laws.
Spacewalk supports alumni networks and careers services worldwide, including alumni career platforms for UK institutions, alumni job board software in the United States and alumni careers platforms for Australian institutions.
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