Business Career Centre introduces alumni engagement tool

Alumni have demonstrated their strong ties to QSB by supporting a variety of initiatives designed to assist students in their career aspirations. More than 200 alumni have participated in the past year in such activities as mock interviews, panel discussions and sharing their career stories, for example. They’ve also supported Direct Connect, a program designed to connect employers with top talent at QSB and to help students build their network and gather information during their career search.

The latest initiative to further engage alumni is the ‘Queen’s School of Business Alumni Career Centre’—a new group on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 100 million members. Hundreds of QSB grads have already signed on to this new group to search job postings, source talent for their organizations, view career- and business-related articles of interest, and learn about ways to help current and graduating students with their career research.

“The LinkedIn Group will be one of the major pathways we’ll use to ask alumni to help out with various career-specific initiatives,” explains Emma Finney, Business Career Centre Manager of Alumni Corporate Relationships. “We know we can count on their continued support since our grads know all too well the value of their own Queen’s business degree.”

To sign up, go to www.linkedin.com, choose ‘Groups’ and enter ‘Queen’s School of Business Alumni Career Centre’ in the search box at the far right. Then it’s as easy as sending a request to join the Group.