Hi, folks.
Sorry again.
Seems like we had some technical difficulties.
I seem to be cutting in and out here.
But we're going to go ahead and get started.
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We'll actually be taking quite a look at that website today.
I'm looking forward to taking any questions you have,
and you're welcome to submit them
throughout the presentation using the Q&A chat box
at the bottom of the screen.
Only I will be able to see these questions, so no worries at all
about confidentiality or anything like that.
I'll try to keep an eye on this Q&A box
as I go through my presentation, but we'll certainly keep time
at the end to cover any questions that I
don't get to while I go through my little slide deck here.
And with that, let's get started.
Throughout your career, the BU Alumni Association
is committed to helping you define and achieve
your professional goals.
We aim to do this by providing alumni
with access to a series of valuable online tools
and social media communities.
My goal today is to give you a very brief overview of these
resources, 90% of which you're going to access right from
our website, and that's, again, bu.edu/alumni/careers.
Or if all you can remember is bu.edu/alumni,
use the menu on the left-hand side of the screen and click
on Careers to access all this stuff.
So my plan for the next, probably 30, 35 minutes or so
is to run through some slides.
We'll jump back and forth between the resources
on the web and on our website.
Looking over my registration list for this webinar today,
looks like we have a really even spread of ages.
I don't know if this is interesting to you,
but I'm throwing this up here.
We've got just as many folks in their 20s
as we do in their 50s, even some folks, some alumni, who are
working well into their 60s.
One other piece of information that
would be really helpful for me to know
is what career stage you might be in.
So I'm going to go ahead and throw up a poll here
that if you could go ahead and select the answer that you
feel best describes you.
Are you a new professional seeking advancement?
Are you middle management looking to break through?
Are you an experienced professional considering
a complete career change?
Unemployed or underemployed?
Are you happily employed, just looking to stay competitive?
None of the above?
Or maybe you just love doing these free lunchtime webinars
that we do.
So obviously, we have a lot of folks here
who are actively looking for work.
Great.
I hope that we can shed some light on some things that
might be helpful to you.
Also, for folks who are actively working, but are really
trying to think about making a big move,
I think we'll talk about a couple of resources
that you might find to be helpful.
So thank you, all of you, for weighing in on this poll.
All right.
I'm going to go ahead end that.
Just move that out of the way here.
So our resources are best explained,
I think, by putting them into four categories.
And you'll find that they are laid out
in a pretty similar fashion on our website when you get there.
We've got tools that I think are able to help you prepare
for your career and a specific job search, tools
and social media communities that I think can help
you build a strong BU network.
And that's where I think the alumni office and BU can really
add some value for you.
And then lastly, specific resources
to help you find open positions in the open markets.
Lastly, I want to talk a little bit about the importance of us
all building a strong alumni community that
supports each other by kind of paying it forward.
So we'll dive right in with our eight ways.
You'll see that I've put nice big, red numbers
next to the ways that I think that we can add some help.
First and foremost, in terms of preparing yourself,
is our alumni webinar series.
You're taking part in that right now.
We do these monthly.
They normally are all done by alumni for alumni.
I think it's great that we've got some amazingly talented
career coaches and speakers around the globe who
are willing to give back to the community
by sharing their expertise.
And I'll show you some of the sessions
we've done in the past.
You can take a look at our extensive online archive
of on-demand webinars.
Secondly, social media is obviously a huge piece
of anybody's job search.
We'll talk quite a bit about LinkedIn.
But we're doing some cool things with social media,
specifically, Twitter.
We run a great series called Terriers@Work
that I think of as an online job shadowing experience.
And we'll show you where you can access an archive of all
those things and follow the account
to see what might be coming up in the next couple months.
And of course, one really important thing
for all of you to know is that as alumni, you will always
have access to specific and skilled career counselors
at the Center for Career Development.
I want to make sure that you check out their website
at bu.edu/careers.
They offer regular skills workshops that you are
welcome to attend as an alum.
Many of you also might know that some of our school and colleges
also offer specific dedicated career staff.
COM has them, Questrom has them, the Law School has them.
People who can really, really help you
hyper-focus in a job search.
So one thing I will mention about the Center for Career
Development is that some of you who have been out of school
longer than two years-- and there are certainly a number
of you on the call today--
might find that you have to pay a fee
for a one-on-one dedicated coaching
appointment, which can be done in person or online
or virtually.
I think it's $25.
You will find that it is pennies on the dollar compared
to what you might pay a private coach on the open market.
And in many cases, if there's any kind of economic hardship,
if you're currently going through unemployment,
you might find that they waive that fee.
All right.
So let's take a quick look at these resources
on our actual website.
I'm going to try to pull that up here.
And there we go.
So you've landed on bu.edu/alumni.
As I mentioned, right on the left-hand side,
click on Careers.
There's a bit of an intro page here,
and then the important piece is this hyperlink
on the second paragraph, or even on the right-hand side.
Click on Career Development Resources,
and that's where you'll find everything listed out.
We talked about the webinar series a little bit.
And I wanted to show you our library.
So this landing page will show you all the webinars
we've got coming up.
We've got one that's going to be great
next week about strategically increasing your media exposure
for your practice, an awesome one in February, Seven
Ideas for Workplace Health from a Silicon Valley professional.
But then the second part of the page is our library.
And this is an extensive--
I think we've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 50
or 60 webinars that we've done over the years, everything
from industry-specific topics and just basic topics that
apply to everybody.
Boosting your Career Confidence.
Who couldn't benefit from doing a little bit of that?
So it's a long list.
We are actually working on a way, a tag system, where you'll
be able to search through these little bit more,
and I hope to roll that out in the next couple months.
But again, a great, great resource, I think.
For those of you who are looking for something
to do during a lunch break or with a second cup of coffee
in the morning, this is a great thing to try out.
I mentioned Terriers@Work.
You'll need a Twitter account to be able to follow this.
But we regularly have many, many alumni
who will take over this account for a day
and tweet about what it's like to work at their company,
in their industry, in their specific job,
and be available to answer questions from folks.
So definitely, if you're a Twitter user,
follow Terriers@Work.
The other thing I would mention is
you can access an archive of all of our previous participants
by going to Storify.
So it's Storify, S-T-O-R-I-F-Y, .com/TerriersatWork.com.
And you can browse through every single session
we've ever, ever done.
We've had some really interesting ones.
My favorite was we had an alum who
works for the Boston Celtics doing,
I think, social media stuff, and that
was really interesting to see the behind the scenes of what
it's like to work at the Celtics.
So definitely check that out.
I also mentioned accessing staff at the Center
for Career Development.
Again, their website is bu.edu/careers.
I should also back up for a second and mention,
I will turn my presentation into a PDF
and email it to all of you later today.
So you'll have direct links to all of these things.
You don't have to remember them or memorize them.
So the CCD's website is a huge wealth of resources.
And then right through this site here,
you can find information about how
you can schedule a one-on-one appointment
or attend some of the upcoming events
that they have that are highlighted here.
So make sure that you spend some time to visit their website
and check that out.
OK.
Back to our next section of topics.
And I mention, again, building a strong BU
network is an area where I feel BU can really
add some value for you.
First and foremost, and I've bolded it here,
I think the most valuable resource
that I think that we offer is the BU Career Advisory Network.
This is a database of 7,517 alumni advisors
who have raised their hands, made themselves available,
said that they want to be mentors.
They're willing to network with you.
They're willing to share their experience and their advice.
They're willing to meet for coffee.
They have the ability to sort of say the different types of help
that they're willing to do, whether resume
review or a mock interview, those kinds of things.
And so we'll take a spin through that database in just a minute,
but definitely make sure that you note that.
I think it's a really incredible resource.
Number five on our list of eight ways
is sort of an amalgamation of things that my office offers,
but certainly attending alumni events,
being a part of the BU alumni community networks
in our specific cities.
By visiting our website, you can get a look
at where our alumni live, where events
are happening around the globe.
I'm a member of a team of about 20 people.
We collectively do nearly 1,000 in-person events
and online events around the globe
during the course of an average year.
We also, in the last couple years,
have added a series of online speed networking
events, a really efficient way to jump online for an hour
during your lunch break and make seven or eight new connections,
sometimes by industry, sometimes by region.
And so all of those things, again,
I can't stress it enough, visiting our website
to learn more about those things.
Now here's the key.
Your zip code is key for you to be invited to the events that
are happening in your area.
We send out way too many emails every week
announcing some of the events that are taking place
in cities near you.
And if we don't have your updated address,
we're either not sending you invitations at all
or sending you information about a city that you don't live in.
We've really gotten away from doing things via snail mail.
It's very expensive.
It certainly wastes a lot of paper in doing that.
And so we really rely on our digital email marketing efforts
and social media to get the word out
to you about things that are happening in your area.
So make sure that you're keeping us updated on what
your address is.
As many of you probably know, the top three cities
that alumni live in are Boston, New York, and DC.
We certainly have active volunteers running events
in the California Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Miami.
Internationally, BU alumni networks are really growing.
Obviously, many of you know that our international student
population has exploded in the last decade.
And we've got some amazing alumni networks
that are thriving in China, the UK, India, UAE,
Turkey, and others.
I've talked about the importance of attending these events
to build your network.
You never know who you might meet.
One thing to plop on your calendars,
if you're not familiar with it already,
during the month of April, we do volunteer community service
programs all over the world in our series
called Global Days of Service.
That's an awesome opportunity to meet alumni in your city.
They happen in our big alumni networks
and in very, very small cities where
we don't have a ton of alumni, places like Phoenix or Dubai.
So definitely make sure to check that out.
That's a good thing to sort of circle
on your calendar for April.
And then again, our online speed networking series
has been really popular.
So far in the last two years, we've
helped alumni make 8,756 networking connections.
So I'd definitely recommend checking that out.
Obviously, we'll talk quite a bit about LinkedIn.
And this, to me, is always sort of a hotbed topic
whenever I connect with alumni.
And I want to ask you a question to hear about your experience
on LinkedIn.
First and foremost-- and I'll throw up another poll question
here--
how many of you are actually on LinkedIn?
You have a profile.
And then while you're clicking on that,
I'll ask my follow up question that's sometimes
a little bit more interesting.
How many of you actually know what to do with LinkedIn?
So if you would take a second to click on both of those polls.
Yeah, certainly.
100% of you so far have an active LinkedIn profile.
Few of you feel like you really know how to use it, 30%.
But we've got another 65 who know a little bit.
Only a couple of you willing to admit that you really
don't know what it's good for.
I won't belabor the point.
I have something to share with you
that I think that you will be excited to learn about.
Many people don't know about the alumni search tool on LinkedIn.
So we'll talk about that.
And then certainly, we've got a huge group on LinkedIn.
The Boston University Alumni Group is a great resource
that I'll show you.
And then lastly, a really amazing tool
that we've had in the last couple of years
is our mobile app.
You can find out more information about that
at bu.edu/alumni/app.
This puts the power of the alumni directory
on your mobile device.
And I'll give you a little sneak peek into how that works,
but basically, using map functionality plus the ability
to link your LinkedIn connection,
you can see where you alumni live and work near you.
A really great resource.
So let's take a look at those real quick.
OK.
Hang on while I get my screen share pulled up here.
OK.
The Career Advisory Network.
Let's go back to Career Resources.
We're going to go back to the Career landing page.
And under the Networking section,
you'll find Career Advisory Network.
Now here's the thing.
You will need to log in to our website to do this.
And I know many of you probably haven't logged into our site
before.
You might have created an online profile for yourself
10 years ago, and maybe you haven't visit our website
again.
That's fine.
We have staff who can help you recreate a login account.
We do not keep anybody's password on file,
but I think that's actually against some kind
of internet law.
But just be aware that it might take
a day or two for us to support you in launching
a new online account.
But here's the Career Advisory Network, again,
a giant database of people who've
made themselves available.
And you can search by a lot of different parameters.
If you want to search specifically to your region,
specifically to what you studied, specific to a company
that you're interested in, you can do all of those things
here.
If you know somebody who works at a company
that you're interested in and want to find out if they've
made themselves available, you can
search by their first name and last name.
You can also search by, again, the type of assistance
they are willing to offer-- if it's
a one-time meeting, long-term mentoring,
resume review, all these sorts of things.
So as with any search, I would recommend starting broadly,
and then narrowing down from there.
So let's say, for example, you went to Engineering
and are looking to connect with other engineering grads who
work in Chicago.
Now what I would suggest doing is
clicking on College of Engineering,
and you could put Chicago in the city field.
But what I have found is that sometimes it
pulls a person's home address.
They might not live in Chicago.
So I would start with the state, and then again,
narrow it down from there.
So let's see engineering grads who live in Illinois.
And this is probably going to give us a huge number,
and that's OK.
OK, just nine.
But we've got nine folks in Illinois
who've signed up to be career advisors.
Some of them, you can see, have linked their social media
accounts.
You can see what their titles are,
the organizations that they work for,
and the type of assistance they're willing to offer.
Let's refine this search a little bit.
Let's say I want to specifically,
and this is sort of my go to, because people always
are interested to see alumni who work at Google.
I'm going to unselect engineering,
because I'm not worried if they specifically
went to Engineering or not.
I'm also going to remove Illinois.
And let's see.
I'm interested in Massachusetts now.
I know that we've got several folks working for Google here
in Boston.
And I'm going to search for that.
We've got a couple of folks.
So this is interesting.
I searched for Massachusetts, but we got a San Francisco.
Somebody might have not updated their home address,
but gave us their business address, that kind of thing.
But then you can click on their name
and connect with them right through the system here.
I'm actually seeing something different,
because I am an admin on the site.
But I can see here that Seth has published an email address.
Any questions about the Career Advisory Network
that I can answer for you?
I'll jump back to my other screen
real quick to see if we've got anything that's come up.
Nothing so far.
OK.
But like I said, we'll have plenty of time
at the end for questions.
We talked a little bit about alumni networks.
This gets us away from the career-specific pages
of our website.
But definitely, by checking out Community on the left-hand side
here, and you can search for alumni near you,
will talk all about where our alumni networks are.
Here's a great map showing where alumni live around the globe.
Let's say, again, I was looking to connect
with folks in Chicago.
Well, I can see here that we've got an Alumni Association
contact.
There's a way to get more information about things
that are happening in Chicago.
So definitely take a look at that.
OK.
Let's talk a little bit about LinkedIn.
First and foremost, I want to make sure
that you all, if you haven't already,
join the Boston University Alumni Group.
Again, we've got nearly 40,000 members.
And it's just an opportunity for alumni
to connect with each other.
We certainly share information about upcoming events
that you might be interested in, interesting articles.
This was a great event that happened yesterday online,
an opportunity to connect with some C-suite coaches.
This is, to me, Peter's post here is exactly
what this group should be for.
Peter's relocating to Cleveland and looking
to make some connections.
I was so glad to see so many people respond
to him offering to help.
This to me is exactly what the BU spirit
should be about and helping each other out and serving
as a resource for other alumni.
So definitely make sure that you join this group.
I also talked about, to me, the real value of LinkedIn,
I think this next thing will really raise a lot of eyebrows.
So just remember, LinkedIn.com/alumni.
I'm typing that into my browser.
Uh-oh.
What a time for that to happen.
I wonder if this is down.
OK.
I know the other thing that I can do
is search for the school.
So just by doing a generic search for Boston University,
I can pick up the university page.
Bear with me one more minute here.
It comes up when I start searching in the box here.
You'll want the selection for Boston University School.
On this page, it has the same tool
that I was trying to do a quick link to before, See Alumni.
So this is automatically pulling up
because Boston University is also the last school
I have listed on my profile.
It'll pull this up.
Different from the Career Advisory Network.
So think of the Career Advisory Network
as sort of a database of warm calls.
This would be more of a cold call.
But similar function in that I can
search by where alumni live, where they work, what they do.
If I use the next arrow in the upper right-hand corner,
I can also search by what they studied,
what they're skilled at, and most importantly,
how you might be connected.
So let's use that same example I was using before.
We're going to show more, and I'm
going to click on the Chicago area.
If I'm clicking on Chicago--
no, it's not letting me click on that.
So one of my gripes about LinkedIn-- there we go.
I had to click on the actual blue bar.
So this brought up the profiles of 3,486 alumni.
I can scroll through them down at the bottom of the screen
here.
And also, it automatically will show me where these folks work.
So a lot of folks living in Chicago
are in higher education, Chicago Public Schools,
United Airlines, health care.
So I also want to add in, OK, I also
want to connect with engineering alumni.
Let's use computer science instead.
But you can search by all those things
by using the search box up top here.
All right, so now I've narrowed it down to 94 alumni,
and then I can see I have 60 third-degree connections.
And then there are 11 people, computer science alumni
in Chicago, that I have a second-degree connection with,
meaning that somebody I'm connected to
can introduce me to these folks.
So this to me is super valuable for those of you
who, maybe you know there's a company that you're
trying to break in at, and you're trying to find contacts
within that company.
This is a great tool for that.
If you know that you're interested in moving
to a new city, you can see what alumni are living and working
in that city.
Or maybe for those of you who are thinking about a career
change, use this.
Plug in roughly the time that you graduated
and what you studied, and take a look
at what those folks are doing with their degrees
and how your experience might translate
into what they're doing.
And then finally, I mentioned briefly the alumni app.
I can't show you that, because it's mobile device only right
now.
They are working on a desktop version.
But I do have a couple of screenshots
that I wanted to share with you about the app.
This is what the icon looks like in the app store.
And if you visit our web page, you
can find direct links to download from the Apple Store,
and also, the Google Play Store.
I think that might be another version as well.
But this one screenshot I wanted to show
you is where I think the real networking value is in the app,
that by pulling up New York, it literally
shows these little terrier icons, all the places where
alumni are working.
It defaults to work addresses.
We thought it might not be a good idea
to publish people's home addresses in this fashion.
So this is where people work.
Let's say if you are visiting New York for a conference
and wanted to connect with people in the area.
Pull this up.
And as you can see, when I look at Manhattan,
this is only showing me 97 of 16,000 results.
We've got a lot of alumni in the New York area.
So a great, great resource that I hope you all
check out, and connect your LinkedIn profile to it.
That way you don't have to worry about going back and updating
it.
While we're on the subject of networking,
and again, I think leveraging your BU connections
is a great way to advance in your career.
But for those of you who maybe haven't done it in a while,
or if you're just out of school and really don't
have a lot of experience with networking,
I wanted to share a couple of thoughts with you
about how to go about doing it.
First and foremost, when you're connecting
with somebody in the Career Advisory Network
or, particularly, finding them on LinkedIn,
the first thing to do is ask for advice and info.
Don't say hey, I'm looking for a job.
Can you help?
That's going to turn folks off.
A lot of people use the dating analogy,
that recommending somebody for a job
is a little bit like dating.
You really want to get to know them a little bit before you
recommend somebody for a position at your organization,
before they put their reputation on the line for somebody
they don't know.
So my request to you is say, hey,
could we meet for a cup of coffee
so I can learn more about the company that you work at,
how you got there, and any advice you might have to share?
When you're contacting them, be really specific.
Say hey, I saw that you also attended Boston University.
Here's why I think that you might be able to help me.
Obviously, being professional is a no-brainer.
Refrain from using jargon in your emails.
Don't use all caps.
Don't use slang and anything like that.
I also want to take a minute to talk
about responsible networking.
I always recommend that people try
to meet in person if that's at all possible.
Phone meetings are great, but if you can share coffee and share
space with somebody for 30 minutes, that's, I
think, always more powerful.
But do it in public.
In today's day and age, I think it's really important to make
sure that we're being safe.
And so if somebody invites you to meet in a private location,
I urge you to make sure that the first time you're doing it
is at a coffee shop or something along those lines.
And then lastly, again, to me a no-brainer.
But if somebody is willing to respond to your email,
thank them for that.
They took time to answer a question
that you had, particularly if they're going out of their way
to meet you in person.
A little thank-you note certainly never hurt anybody.
Lastly, in terms of resources that BU can provide,
there are some things that we can do specifically
to help you find open positions.
First and foremost is BU Handshake.
This is a recently refreshed platform that we have
that I'll do a little bit of a guided tour for you
so you can see where jobs are posted specifically
for the BU community.
Our alumni LinkedIn group is also a place to look for jobs.
People regularly post open positions.
There's a jobs section that I'll show you in a minute.
Again, social media, a great way to hear about open positions.
And one of the things that we've been doing over the last couple
years is asking folks to post open positions
at their employers using the hashtag #HireBU.
I think that you'll find that Twitter is
the primary platform for this.
But as, I think, Facebook and Instagram are also
utilizing hashtag functionality, you might try that as well.
And then lastly, we talked about attending events, connecting
with your network locally.
But there are some specific things
happening both on campus and online that
will allow you to search through open positions
and connect with employers.
I specifically want to highlight,
for those of you who are somewhat
local to Boston, on Valentine's Day, February 14,
we have our annual, quote unquote, "spring" career fair.
That refers more, I think, to the semester
than the actual season of year in February.
But the career fairs are primarily for students,
but all alumni are welcome to attend.
I think those of you who are maybe just a couple of years
out from BU will find more opportunities than some
of you who are more seasoned professionals,
but you never know who you might connect with.
And so I definitely encourage anybody
who's interested to plan on coming back to campus for that.
And then in March, there's going to be a very large series
of workshops I'll talk about in a second that
are going to be great opportunities
to connect with folks and hear about open positions.
So again, let's go back to our website.
And I'm going to go back to the Alumni Career page,
clicking Career Development Resources.
Under here, you'll find a job.
You'll find the link for Handshake.
Now you'll have to request an alumni account.
Those of you who attended BU full time
when Handshake was active probably
can just to log in with your Kerberos and BU username.
But there is a--
I'll send a link in the slide deck to request your account.
This automatically logged me in, because I've
been in here before.
There's a lot of things that you can do in Handshake, finding
out about upcoming events.
One important thing I want to make sure to mention.
It defaults to refer to everybody as a student.
My apologies about that.
Don't be turned off by it.
So you'll have a student account when you log in to Handshake,
even if you're an alum.
But again, I think the bread and butter of Handshake
is certainly the open positions.
So right up at the top, I'm going to click on Jobs.
And yesterday, when I checked, looking down, scrolling down
here, I see that there were 5,955 positions posted
specifically for the BU community.
And again, that's students and alumni.
You will see a lot of internships posted,
but you can, by selecting some of the search filters,
really drill down on the positions that
might be most applicable to you if you're looking for full time
or part time.
So there are positions posted all over the globe.
This is a really fantastic resource.
And I'd be happy to answer any questions you
have about Handshake.
It also, similarly, allows you to browse through some events
that are happening.
Again, the majority of these are really directed at students,
but many of them that you'll find are open to alumni
as well.
We talked again about LinkedIn.
Let's go back to the Boston University Alumni Group.
And it defaults to conversations,
but you'll see here right up at the top,
there's also a tab for jobs.
This should be in the other category.
I'll move that.
Greg's looking for somebody who recently
graduated from business school in New Jersey.
Austin, Texas, somebody's posted a job.
So this is, again, a great resource, and I ask all of you
to post open positions at your organizations as well.
I think the more that the BU community
can help each other by sharing this information, the better
off we all are.
And then we talked about social media, using hashtag #HireBU.
I'm sure you can find that on your own.
Sorry, one important thing that I didn't highlight for you
is alumni events.
OK, so let's go back to the BU alumni web page
using one of my shortcuts.
You're seeing a different page because I'm
logged in as an admin.
My apologies.
OK.
Back to bu.edu/alumni, and then there's a whole section here
just for events.
Again, nearly 1,000 of them a year.
Here at the bottom of the page, we
highlight just a couple of them.
But by clicking on View Calendar,
you can see literally everything that's listed
and coming up over the next, and this probably goes all the way
to, I'm guessing, probably Alumni Weekend in September,
even past that.
We've got some trips that are happening for alumni
into November of 2018.
So again, just bu.edu/alumni/events will get
you here, but this is a great place to come and browse
and see what's happening near you.
And you can certainly search by your region up at the top here.
You can search by location, specific events for schools
and colleges, the type of event that you're looking for.
So you can just put in career and professional events
and see what comes up.
So that is pretty much it, folks.
A couple of other things that I wanted to highlight for you.
Got a couple questions here.
OK.
Riss, yes, I will absolutely share the slide deck.
I've got a PDF that I'm going to email to everybody later today.
I understand some folks are at work
and might have some other things going on,
so I'll email that out.
Cece, is there a list of available companies going
to the spring career fair?
Yes.
When you register for that, you'll actually
need to register on Handshake.
That's a great question.
The Center for Career Development runs that event,
and so you'll register using Handshake
once you've got a login.
But just by going to their--
why don't we take a look at that right now?
We've got some time.
I'm going to go back to share my screen.
I'm going to guess that I can find it
because I'm already logged in.
Handshake.
Boston University All Majors Spring Career Fair 2018.
All employers.
Here we go.
So yes, they will publish every employer
that's coming beforehand.
I know that even a month out, they
are still adding some folks.
But you probably have to be logged in order to access this.
Possibly not.
Not a great answer to your question.
But the bottom line is yes, they will publish that list.
Simone E. Delaney, never heard of Handshake before.
OK.
Yes, you did graduate a while ago.
And Jake's relatively new, but it's a great resource.
Andrea, or Andrea, has asked, do I recommend using--
hang on, folks, I'm going to adjust my screen here
for a second--
the university career site, or if your grad school
or individual school and college has its own career office,
you recommend that instead?
Yeah, no, it's both, right?
I certainly think starting with your school or college career
staff is probably going to be the most applicable to the work
that you might be doing.
But that being said, for those of you who
are thinking about a career change,
or kind of open to lots of different paths, the Center
for Career Development, I think, can be very, very helpful.
So two great resources.
Unfortunately, some of you don't have
school or college-specific ones, but I
think that you'll find the counseling staff at the Center
for Career Development is going to be really helpful.
Joseph asked, is there a BU alumni network in Dallas?
A small one.
We actually will have, I believe, a networking event
coming up in the Dallas-Forth Worth area in March.
So keep your eye out for that, Joseph.
What help can BU provide as I am semi-retired and pursuing
a board of directors assignment?
So Joseph, I think that's where, again, it's
going to be about using your BU network to find
those connections.
We certainly don't provide a list
of organizations that are looking to add board members.
But that's where I think if you can find organizations
that you're interested in or feel like you can be useful to,
that's where just using the BU network to make
some connections on folks who already have board positions
or folks who are senior level at the companies
that you're interested in, that's
where I think that you might find
some value in using the resources that I've
talked about.
OK.
Back to my presentation.
A couple of things I wanted to highlight for you
before we wrap up.
But again, I've got lots of time to answer any other specific
or sort of unique to individuals questions as they come up.
March 2018, we do a massive series of career programs
called Alumni Career Weeks.
This year, we're going to have over 50 events.
I know up at the top, we say 44 events.
It's already over 50.
We say 21 cities.
It's actually going to be over 30.
But we are going to be doing some awesome things,
some networking, some workshops, some guest speakers, some panel
discussions, all happening in the month of March.
And now is a great time to pay attention to that
and make sure we have your address on file
so that we can send you those invitations to those events
that are happening in your area, and of course, to be
able to find out more information
once we publish the full schedule, which
I think will actually be at the end of next week.
bu.edu/careerweeks.
Right now, to sort of capitalize on the January, New Year's
resolutions, new year, new you, for a lot of you
who are looking to find that next new job in 2018,
we're doing something called the Career Kick-Start Challenge.
And those of you who sign up can be
entered to win some really awesome prizes.
Basically, each week, we'll be sharing some specific resources
and tips and sort of tasking you with small things
that you can do, and then let us know what you've done.
So watching a prerecorded webinar,
connecting with a CAN advisor, being a CAN advisor yourself.
By doing all those small actions,
I think you'll find that doing one small thing each week
adds up to sort of a little bit of a momentum builder for you.
This is kind of a long URL to access the Career Kick-Start
Challenge.
But again, I'll email this deck to you later today.
It's not too late to sign up.
We have something like 130 people already participating.
But you can jump in next week and continue
to be a part of it.
Last but not least, I think an important part of anybody's
career, especially for those of you who've
been working for a long time, is to also figure out
how you can help other people be successful.
Again, I think all of us want the BU network to be strong.
And I think the way that we do that is
by offering to be helpful as much as we're
looking to be helped.
So some of the things that we talked about
are things that you can all do as well-- posting a job
opportunity using that hashtag that we talked about,
or on the LinkedIn group.
Many of you who work at great companies
or have some career success, we want
you to be a career advisor.
So sign up to do that.
We often have people who post questions
on our LinkedIn group.
We need smart people to answer them with their opinions.
If you found a great article that you
think people would want to read, post
that on our LinkedIn group.
Certainly, asking your employer or you yourself
sign up to recruit and hire people on our Handshake
account.
That's a super important thing.
We want BU people to get jobs.
Can you help us?
Yes, you can.
So please do that.
And then last but not least, I won't make light of the fact
that donating to BU for some of our scholarships
can help other deserving students continue
their careers at BU.
Donating to your school or college
can oftentimes help us create new resources.
We had a lot of people who recently donated
to help rebuild the radio station over at COM
that had been destroyed in a fire.
Those kinds of opportunities help
students launch into careers.
And so I certainly hope that you'll all
consider making a gift to Boston University.
Dirty little secret about donations.
I think all of us really appreciate
that BU has continued to climb in the rankings
over the last 20 years or so.
Well, guess what?
Alumni participation and giving is a key factor
in how places like US News and World Report
determine rankings.
It's not necessarily the dollar amount that you donate,
but the fact that you participate
by giving back to BU drives you up in the rankings.
A lot of people don't actually know that.
So that's pretty much it.
Again, folks, my goal today was to do a very brief overview,
let you know about some of the places
that you can access some of these tools
and how I think that you can best use them.
But I certainly am here.
We've got a couple of minutes remaining in the hour.
If you've got questions, feel free to fire away.
And we've got some coming in.
Awesome.
Thank you.
OK, Carl.
I learned about valuable resources.
That's wonderful.
I'm glad to hear-- oh, that was just a thank you.
Well, Carl, you're welcome.
Thanks for your feedback.
I appreciate that.
Kate, great question.
Do you have any resources for moms trying to break back
into full-time workforce?
I think, again, the number-- certainly, Handshake,
there are literally thousands of jobs posted.
Some of them are part-time positions.
Certainly, some of them might be really well-suited for somebody
who's taken a break from the workforce for a while.
But I think a lot of the things that we
talked about-- my advice to you might be take a look
at the Career Advisory Network.
See who the professionals are in your city that
might be willing to meet with you for a cup of coffee
to talk about the experiences that you've had.
Certainly, to talk about how the time that you took off away
from the workforce--
I'm guessing to raise some kids--
there's probably a lot of organizational and other skills
that you learned in doing that.
Time management.
Talk about how those things can apply to a potential position.
So Kate, I listed my email address here.
I'd love to have a one-on-one conversation with you about how
the resources that we have might help you out in your position.
Seeing a lot of folks that are walking away
with some action items.
Alicia, Alicia, thank you.
Mark, thanks for tuning in here.
Oh, Cece, great question.
OK.
Is it correct we only need one password now
for all the BU alumni and career sites we use,
CAN, Handshake, all the links that we showed us?
Unfortunately, no.
Great question that you've asked.
Many of the tools that we offer, some of them
are developed here at BU.
Others are things that we purchased.
I mentioned our online speed networking events.
We purchased a software to provide those events.
That software company needs you to create your own username
and password for that opportunity.
So my recommendation would be to really try
to take good notes on what you've signed up for and where.
Handshake, again, separate login.
It's really complicated.
Some of the things are fully integrated with the BU
single sign-on, so using your BU username and Kerberos password.
For those of you who attended BU before there
was such a thing as a Kerberos password,
you will need to create an account
to access some of our tools.
So Cece, I hear you.
It's kind of a pain in the neck.
We all have eight million usernames
and passwords that I'm forgetting on a daily basis.
It's complicated, but in order to provide those resources,
we're doing the best that we can to try to make it seamless
and integrated as possible.
But in some cases, it's not.
OK, Tim.
Is there anyone associated with alumni network
or a related resource who can advise about employment
relations law, troubleshooting with real issues
about getting or keeping jobs and advancing at work?
Great question, Tim.
I think that, certainly, my colleagues
at the Center for Career Development
might have some resources for you about--
I guess maybe I might be reading into your question here--
but if you're looking at a potential lawsuit
or something like that, the staff at the CCD
might be able to help.
The other thing I would suggest is
if you are a BU School of Law alum or not,
I would also pick up the phone and call BU School of Law
and ask them if there is somebody.
Here's a truth.
You might get a student worker who doesn't know
how to answer your question.
But I think if you just continue to try
to reach out to some folks, maybe
start by taking a look at the law alumni website,
filling out an online form that they might have
to ask that question, I think that you'll
find that because you're an alum, people here at BU
want to be helpful.
And certainly, again, my email is here.
I am not an employment lawyer, but I am definitely
here to help you try and navigate that and maybe get
answers to your questions.
James.
Is my password my BU ID or an email address?
James, you would be the only one who actually can answer
questions about your password.
We don't do anything around storing passwords.
You will-- OK, so your question might be this.
You will need, if you're trying to create a new account to log
into BU alumni resources, you will
need to find your Boston University ID number.
And that's something that our help desk staff can help with.
You'll need to provide us with some information
so we can verify who you are.
And you might find a little lag time on us getting back to you.
But if you're patient with us, we
will absolutely help you get your BU ID number if you don't
remember it and get you set up.
And again, patience.
I'm here to help.
Hang on to my email address.
I will make sure that we get you access to the things
that you want to access.
Sometimes it's a pain in the neck.
I really appreciate everybody for weighing in
with your thanks.
I'm really glad to see that some of you found this to be useful.
Again, it was just an introduction.
And if I can be helpful, I don't claim to be a career coach,
but I certainly can help people navigate these resources
and, I think, provide some suggestions
on how you can leverage your BU network to be
successful in the workplace.
One last question.
Any questions from anybody?
Wow, thanks, everybody, for your feedback.
I really do appreciate it.
I'm glad that you found this useful.
Again, I do think we have some great resources.
It might take you a little bit of time
to figure out how to use all of them
and access them, for one thing.
But I do think that BU can be helpful in advancing
all of your careers.
That's it, everybody.
Hang on to my email address.
I'm around all afternoon if you want
to shoot me an email with a specific question.
And thank you, everybody, for participating.
Thank you to those of you who've donated to BU in the past.
I hope that you'll plan to join us for some upcoming career
events.
Keep an eye on your calendars for March.
Thanks, everybody.
Have a great day or a great evening, wherever you might be.
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