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Lots of remarkable people – some of the very best talent – take a career break. But they still need help coming back. Here’s why we wrote a book to help them. Increasingly, people are […]

I’m useless at clubs. Here are just a few of the things I’ve failed to stick at: Majorettes. Girl Guides and Scouts. Hockey Club. Church. Book group. Ante-natal classes. Something in me bristles at the […]

HR has started to shift its focus toward the entire workforce, including their alumni. As the trends resulting from the fourth industrial revolution converge with the highly diverse global talent economy

Alumni Communications are often overlooked and undervalued when considering corporate reputation. Scott McKenzie, from Montfort Communications, explores the value of building stronger relationships with your former employees. I’m in my attic wading through old paperwork […]

The delivery of a successful Alumni network starts and ends with empathy; Asking yourself and your community “what is true value and how can we deliver it?”

Julianne Miles, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Women Returners, discusses the benefits of hiring senior professionals back into the workforce following a career break.

Social isolation is increasingly common as individuals mix with ever-growing numbers of people. It’s critically helpful for people to be able to foster ties to groups that they already know and can maintain links with. Being part of an alumni group – where individuals are aligned by a common set of experiences or shared characteristics – is a key part of this.

The war for talent has become the status quo and we know this is unlikely to change over the coming decade. According to the Office for National Statistics, unemployment in the UK is now the […]

What do Tesla, YouTube and LinkedIn all have in common? Apart from being three of the highest profile and most innovative brands of the past decade, they were all created by the corporate alumni of one company – PayPal.

Over the past year or so, I have spent many hours with individuals working at medium to large organizations talking about the virtues of implementing and managing an alumni association.  These individuals range from C-Suite […]