{"id":2967,"date":"2011-10-27T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/career\/?page_id=2967"},"modified":"2025-09-27T00:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:08:56","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"For Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alumni play a vital role in supporting students with their exploration of careers, industries, organizations, and roles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Center for Purposeful Work invites alumni to share their professional guidance and opportunities with students. Helping students access the alumni network amplifies the resources and information they have to discover and explore valuable, meaningful experiences. Moreover, such guidance can help students make more informed decisions about their next steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>How You Can Help<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post your organization\u2019s jobs and internships to our recruiting platform <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joinhandshake.com\/employers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Handshake<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (utilized by over 1,500 US institutions across the US)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/employers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">targeted strategies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for reaching Bates students with your job and internship opportunities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become an employer partner with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/purposeful-work-internships-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Purposeful Work Internship Program<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Help a student explore professional pathways by hosting a virtual, hybrid, or in-person <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/job-shadow\/sponsors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Job Shadow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (with host recruitment happening in August-September)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participate in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/spotlights\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotlight<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> programs, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/roadshows\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roadshow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> programs, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/employer-info-session-schedule\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">employer sessions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and other Purposeful Work events<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay connected with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alumni Engagement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, attend Bates networking events when you\u2019re on campus, and check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/regional-networks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates Regional Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> events (and if you\u2019re interesting in hosting, check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/bates-and-beyond\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates &amp; Beyond<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">List Bates in the education section of your <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/alumni\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn Profile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and join <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/bates-community-on-social-media\/#linkedin-groups\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates LinkedIn Groups<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Direct a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/give.bates.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates gift<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Purposeful Work using the designation box on the\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/ways-to-give\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College Advancement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> online form\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>How We Can Help You<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To schedule an appointment with a Purposeful Work staff advisor, please email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:purposefulwork@bates.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">purposefulwork@bates.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with your request and weekday availability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For additional support, check out <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/alumni-professional-development\/\">alumni professional development resources<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/\">Alumni Engagement<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni play a vital role in supporting students with their exploration of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25898,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2967\/revisions\/25898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}