A review of 48 follow-up surveys of two-year college vocational education graduates conducted at the institutional and state levels reveals some common findings regarding the graduates' employment experiences. Most survey respondents (70% to 80%) reported that they were employed full-time; 66% to 96% indicated that their jobs were in some way related to their programs of study at college; and most indicated satisfaction with the technical knowledge or job skills they gained at college, while expressing less satisfaction with the colleges' helpfulness in providing knowledge about career opportunities or in preparing them for career advances. In spite of the commonality of these findings, survey limitations and methodological weaknesses make it difficult to assess the extent to which graduates' career outcomes can be attributed to their vocational studies. Among these weaknesses are the fact that most studies were conducted on a "one-shot" basis; many studies were conducted too soon after graduation to provide a long-term view of students' career lives; many surveys obtained low response rates; and many suffered from a lack of control groups against which to assess graduates' employment experiences. To improve vocational follow-up studies several steps could be taken, including: (1) reduce the size of the survey instrument to improve response rates; (2) solicit information on graduates' educational goals and prior employment experiences; (3) gather longitudinal data to trace career develpment patterns; and (4) base studies on well-chosen samples as an alternative to surveying all program graduates. (EJV)