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Alumni Mentoring Program
With the support of the Office of Alumni Relations and the Alumni Executive Board, the Office of Career Services has recently inaugurated an Alumni Mentoring Program to provide a forum for matriculates and alumni to discuss areas of mutual career interest. In the future, the program will also be available to alumni who want to network for career information and advancement. To make the program a success, representation is needed across all divisions, job functions, and degree dates.
Should you decide to participate in the Program, Mailman students and other alumni will have on-line access to your name, employer name and location, title, job function, degree type/date and department and business e-mail address only. Students will contact you via e-mail. Although your contact with students could be as brief as a telephone conversation, the most beneficial form of contact would be a meeting at your place of business or other mutually agreeable venue.
Each Summer, we will contact you to ask if you would like to continue to participate in the program. However, prior to that time, you will always have the option of "retiring" from the program by contacting Sheila Viswanathan, Office of Career Services, at 212.342.3600.
Should you elect to participate in the program, you should expect to share, at a minimum:
- Personal and professional insights into your chosen field of work.
- Reflections on the most and least satisfying aspects of your work.
- Information on professional opportunities (e.g., the career ladder) that exist in your chosen field.
- Comments regarding your education and experiential preparation for your chosen career. Was it adequate? How might you have been better prepared?
- The names of other personal and/or professional contacts who might provide additional insights.
- Additional areas of inquiry might focus on more specific job function, industry and employer information.
To participate, simply complete the on-line Alumni Mentoring Program Survey below.
In addition to volunteering for the Alumni Mentoring Program, please consider assisting us by:
- Informing us of practica, internship and full-time permanent positions with your employer. Simply click here to post a job.
- Volunteering to participate in career planning and development activities (e.g., career panels, job/career fairs) sponsored by the Office of Career Services.
We look forward to your positive response to our invitation to participate in the Alumni Mentoring Program. In the interim, should you have questions, please contact Sheila Viswanathan, Office of Career Services, at 212. 342.3600.
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