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An alumni network is one way to counter the challenge of locating the right freelancers with the right skills, at the right time, and the right cost.
While you bid farewell to an employee, you should be setting them up for an eventual return. Here's how to start rethinking your approach to...
'Employees' and 'Alumni' are often thought of as two distinct groups. Treating them as one community can bring great benefits to how employees engage.
A strong brand is built by strong relationships - so it's worth thinking about find the best strategies to help you achieve this.
Boomerang employees offer great value to your company. This is how to set yourself up with boomerang success.
An organizations workplace culture doesn’t stop when an employee leaves: focusing on Alumni relations remains part of the employee cycle.
Exploring professional mentorship programs within your alumni strategy can be a motivating factor in engaging select, highly valued members of your...
One powerful thing businesses can do when looking to supercharge engagement of their networks is to conduct a corporate alumni survey.
When star employees leave, recruit them for your organization’s alumni network. To do this, you need to lead with WIIFM (what's in it for me).
Corporate alumni relations are now at the forefront. Businesses are asking how to use their alumni program to better support ex-employees.
As we dive into a new year and many organizations engage with us to launch their Alumni Website, it is important to recognize how others are...
Organizations are recognizing the value of 'Known Person Recruiting', which refers to people who have an existing affinity or relationship to your...
The fears of a recession mean that over half of CEOs have implemented a hiring freeze. Is a stable workforce plan possible at a time of constant...
Recent research shows a clear trend for retirees returning to the workplace. Retired alumni are an untapped source of talent that HR leaders taking...
Visier data shows bringing back an ex-employee not only makes financial sense for them (with an average 28% pay rise), but it's good for your...
Implementing a seamless corporate alumni onboarding experience is vital for setting the tone for member engagement and retention in the long run.
Effective community management can greatly impact organizations. Read our guide for the top five pillars that make up community management.
An alumni engagement survey is a tool that can help you understand your alumni community. Read our top 5 engagement survey sample questions to ask
Read our guide to discover the eleven effective alumni engagement tools that can strengthen an alumni network and drive business growth.
Want to know how to implement community engagement in your alumni network platform? Read our guide on the strategies for your business
Supercharge the management of your corporate alumni community. Read our guide on how to use corporate alumni software.
Sometimes the talent you’re looking for is nearer and more familiar than you think. Once you have parted amicably, the priority is to keep in touch.
We provide actionable tips to help you expand and leverage your corporate alumni referral network in support of your business.
Rehiring laid off employees can benefit your business - find out why clients celebrate when you bring boomerang employees back into the mix.
We walk through the 4 steps to conduct an Alumni sentiment analysis. Find out how corporate alumni feel about your platforms and network.
In this new whitepaper, Professors Alison Dachner and Erin Makarius discuss how to systematically design your Corporate Alumni Program for success.
Here are seven alumni engagement metrics that innovative companies have been known to track inside of their corporate alumni platforms.
If the timing isn’t right to re-hire former employees, are they motivated to act as brand advocates who can attract talent to your business?
A deep dive into retention stats and how often people change jobs. It's not all bad news for the businesses that have alumni programs.
Get expert tips on audience segmentation to pave the way for effective relationship-building with your corporate alumni network.
Develop career paths for your best people to boost long-term talent retention, even after they exit the business.
A close view of the importance of CSR in corporate alumni relations. We unpack how to get departing employees involved in your initiatives.
Many businesses leverage contingent workers as talent. Get insight into the value of this workforce segment, which includes corporate alumni.
Steps to take during offboarding to ensure that departing employees become alumni and a source of future opportunities for the business.
Six actionable tips to help Community Managers prepare for and see better corporate alumni retention in their business's network.
How do corporate alumni fit into the employee journey? We look at why successful organizations invest in an end-to-end employee experience.
Without an engaged Alumni Group of former employees, an organization cannot have a complete end-to-end employee experience.
We talk about the 7 steps it takes to drive value and opportunity for your business and corporate alumni.
It's time to redefine employee retention. Businesses should be looking to retain loyalty and positive sentiment rather than a daily clock-in.
Want results from an engaged network of colleagues who are ready to help each other and their former employer? Time to appoint an alumni community...
Recruiting millennials can be a tall order. Find out why your corporate alumni program is a tool to attract them to your business.
Your corporate alumni talent pool is a goldmine. Find out how keeping in touch with people who leave can come full circle later on.
We look at how to develop an alumni content strategy that takes your community beyond a glorified mailing list & organically drives engagement.
To reap the rewards of its alumni program, organizations should know who its alumni are: ex-employees, retirees, seasonal workers, and contingent...
Alumni can support an organization’s employee development strategy. They are mentors, coaches, and brand advocates to call upon to support the...
Alumni programs have a part to play in organizational success, and can support talent relationship management to achieve business and employee goals...
15 Alumni engagement ideas for Alumni teams to ensure that the talent pool is ready to serve the needs of the business when called upon.
We share expert tips on the 10 business alumni best practices to consider when building a business case to breathe life into your alumni program.
Taking concepts from Michael Arena's Adaptive Space, we look at the four key alumni network roles that enable alumni program adoption in an...
From lead acquisition to conversion to engagement, organizations should approach the alumni digital experience in the same way they would for...
Reach productivity sooner, engaged workforce, consumer-tech grade experience. Find out why an employee experience platform is critical to business...
Considering the mechanics of hiring & ROI, it makes sense to engage with former employees who will cost a lot less to integrate into your...
Chasing passive candidates typically only fills 11% of roles. This leaves a glaring 89% of roles open, which could be filled by former employees.
Not every Alumni Platform is created equal and when deploying a Corporate Alumni Solution to a global company, it needs to be as contextual to be...
An Alumnus is an individual who has had a prior formal relationship with an organization of some form (corporate, non-profit, educational).
Best Practices to deploying an engaging and successful corporate alumni program that delivers value to the Alumni population and drives business...
New customers launching an Alumni Group for their prior employees often make an early decision to exclude pools of people from the program before...
A Boomerang Employee is someone who returns to work for their former employer. The ROI on a boomerang hire has been detailed in our recent research...
Alumni programs are enabling companies to directly impact the bottom line with measurable results across the entire organization, quickly and at low...
Alumni Communications are often overlooked when considering corporate reputation. What's the value of building stronger relationships with former...
For companies establishing or enhancing an existing corporate Alumni platform, how they handle their 'regrettable losses' is an important starting...
Engaging Alumni to drive bottom-line impact in the retail and food-service industry is critical. Look at a departing employee as a promotion to...
A survey identified that over 420,000 professional-level women are currently taking career breaks and were ready to return as boomerang hires.
At Alexander Mann Solutions, our clients are showing real progress in total talent management - an understanding mirrored within our own agile...
Are Alumni Networks Valuable? What do Tesla, YouTube and LinkedIn all have in common? They were all created by the alumni of one company – PayPal.
For many organizations looking to launch an Alumni Program, the first question is: “Which function should our alumni association ‘sit’ in – Marketing...
I used to think it meant someone wasn’t loyal if they left. But now we’re actually reaching out to former employees to see who's interested in...
Building a functional mentor program can bridge the gap when keeping talent engaged in their roles - if employers are willing to think outside the...
The alumni database has evolved from an excel spreadsheet with incomplete data into a high performing engagement tool to drive recruitment and sales.
A Corporate Alumni Program is often prioritized due to a specific organizational need. Dan Klamm delivers a series of Alumni best practices &...
A Boomerang Employee is someone who returns back to their former employer after leaving to go work for another organization or go into retirement.
The market has matured, and the Alumni Directory is no longer sufficient to deliver value to your Alumni Network, who want a modern and intelligent...
Build new revenue streams, save on recruitment and enhance your employer brand, all through the power of alumni.