Alumni connections—a strong resource in a tough economy

The New York Times recently highlighted a growing trend among seasoned job seekers: accessing alumni connections and career services offered by their alma mater. In a turbulent job market, alumni ties have become a strong resource. [more]

Skidmore alumni can take advantage of several resources to assist them in job searches, career changes, professional networking, and locating alumni- and parent- owned businesses and services.

* Skidmore’s career services office will assist alumni with career counseling, job searching strategies, resume development, access to powerful online job-search tools, networking referral, and effective planning for graduate school applications. A searchable database of alumni and parent career advisors is also available here. If you’d like to help students and other alumni during these challenging times, please consider joining the Skidmore Career Network.

* Skidmore Business Network (SBN) is an alumni-driven professional networking group for alumni, parents, and friends working in finance, law, marketing, entrepreneurship, and related professions. There are SBN chapters in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, and New Haven, Conn., offering guest speakers and networking events. This year, SBN will be sponsoring speed-networking events with alumni of peer institutions. [link] SBN is also on LinkedIn.

* LinkedIn has a career-services group called Skidmore College Connections. LinkedIn is a hugely popular professional-networking site, and Skidmore’s group is open to all alumni and other members of the wider Skidmore family. [link]

* Green and Yellow Pages is a new and growing database of Skidmore alumni and parents who are business owners and service providers, all searchable by type of business and by geographic location. It’s free to use, and it’s free to get a business listed. [link]