I.Alumni Interface with Recent Graduates:
Resume Counselor: Alumni who are interested in offering their services for critiquing resumes of recent graduates, and offering customized, one-on-one advice
Interview Counselor: Offering your time to conduct a mock interview for a recent graduate will help him immensely in his job search.
Mentor: Act as professional mentors to recent graduates and junior alumni. As a mentor you would make yourself available to discuss career related and workplace issues, and handhold someone as they progress through the initial stages of their career. A frequency of a bi-monthly or quarterly phone call/meeting is a suggested guideline. It gives you a chance to assist someone who shares your interests and goals.
Host: Recent graduates sometimes need a place to stay during the period they are interviewing for jobs in various cities. You can offer to accommodate someone if you and your family are comfortable with the idea. Alternatively, you can point out economical and convenient housing options in your city, and offer to be a local contact.
II. Alumni Interface with Departments of SSSIHL:
Become a Class Contact: Help the department keep a tab on your classmates’ contact information. Share information and reconnect with your classmates through e-groups. Identify classmates to serve as career mentors, event or classroom speakers, and for other relevant opportunities.
Share Academic Insights: Come forward to share educative films, games, annual reports, and journal subscriptions with the department.
Syllabi Sounder: Update the department on the latest trends in your academic area, along with your suggestions for improvements in the syllabus.
Help develop a Databank of Interview Questions: Share your interviewing experience by listing out the questions asked for specific jobs and companies. Outgoing graduates can benefit from your experience.
Help develop a Resume-Building Expertise in the Department: Share tips that may be used by outgoing graduates while they are writing out or sharpening their resumes.
Develop Case Studies: Do indicate if you would like to develop a case study (particularly in the Indian context) with a faculty member. Alternatively, you can also share existing case studies that may be relevant for students.
Help with Workshops: Help source speakers and provide other support to the department in running Workshops successfully.
Create Awareness about the Institute and the Academic Program: Share your experience with Swami and in Parthi with prospective students, and within your company. The department will support your efforts with brochures, VCD presentations etc.
Sharing of Inspiring Moral/Ethical Real Life Situations: Alumni in Senior positions could share their practical experiences on how they have benefited their organizations and in turn their careers by the strength of character and the practice of “Mind On Baba Always”. This constitutes the uniqueness and real strength of our great Institute and its academic program and it would be inspiring and useful to all the alumni to learn about stories of success built around these Core Strengths.
III. Alumni Interface with Current Students:
Become a Summer Project Resource: If you see research opportunities within your department or division, find out if it can be converted into a summer project and inform the faculty at SSSIHL. Alternatively, if you are working in or have acquired an expertise in specific functional areas, you can offer to work with the faculty guide in giving your views on specific summer projects.
Help with Data Collection: Students often need to collect data for their summer projects. Sign-up and you can be a valuable resource to help source this data for them.