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18:le3, 1 To the Editor: Universities are at long last undertaking efforts to collect and disseminate information about student career outcomes, after decades of calls to action. Organizations such as Rescuing Biomedical Research and Future of Research brought this issue to the forefront of graduate education, and the second Future of Biomedical Graduate and Postdoctoral Training conference featured the collection of career outcomes data in its final recommendations (Hitchcock et al., 2017). More recently, 48 institutions have assembled as the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science (CNGLS), committing to ongoing collection and dissemination of career data for both graduate and postdoc alumni. A few individual institutions have shared snapshots of the data in peerreviewed publications (Silva et al., 2016; Mathur et al., 2018) and on websites. As more and more institutions take up this call to action, they will be looking for tools, protocols, and best practices for ongoing career outcomes data collection, management, and dissemination. Here, we describe the development and implementation of a methodology for collecting, examining, and reporting graduate and postdoctoral career outcomes data at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). As a service to the community, we describe and share all tools we have developed, and we provide calculations of the time and resources required to accomplish both retrospective and annual data collection and reporting. We also include practical advice for implementation by other institutions, which we hope will increase the feasibility of this endeavor.