OK, I am in. I am new at this but here goes.
Here are a few thoughts on the moving towards establishing a:
Reed College Alumni Career Mentoring Network:
Why?
1. There is considerable dissatisfaction with current situation, with sense of inadequate career service resources, both for current Reed students and recent alumni, and marginal involvement of alumni as network resource for students or recent alumni
2. There are diverse needs of current Reed students and recent alumni
3. There are continuing career mentoring needs of younger alumni after leaving the college
4. There is a desire to connect alumni with current students and recent alumni
5. There is a desire to connect alumni with the college
6. There is a desire to connect current students and recent alumni with the alumni association
What it might be?
Establish a career mentoring program of alumni volunteers wishing to participate in program in various fields and geographic locations, and linking these alumni with current student and recent alumni for a series of meetings and career help sessions, perhaps lasting several weeks and/or months. Challenges would include:
1. A need to recruit and possibly train alumni in career mentoring (by alumni association staff and/or volunteers?)
2. Establishment and maintenance of a alumni career mentoring database and contacts (by alumni association staff and/or volunteers?)
3. Continue laisson efforts between college's career services and alumni associaton
4. Monitoring of program to make certain it is meeting the needs of participants (both alumni volunteers and mentored students/recent alumni)
5. Many others (to be defined)
More to come?
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2 comments:
Richard,
This is great. I think it is a very accurate summary of what we talked about last weekend.
Holly
I agree that this is a good summary with some additional embellishment. Perhaps after considering the structure more, we could actually make it less elaborate.
For example, I am not convinced that all career mentoring needs to be done by trained people or that they need to be in the same field as the person, particularly when the person needing help needs to establish a set of goals.
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