we deliver alumni development
We understand your dilemma. Skills are changing at an unprecedented pace. Alumni expected their college investment to last them a lifetime. Those days are gone. Alumni find themselves either out of work, or needing to upskill or reskill quickly to meet new talent requirements. Your challenge? Help them do it, with a small staff and few resources. We can help by providing professional and career development at scale.
Prepare alumni for the skills of the future
Self-awareness is the key to action. When people think they are prepared, but don’t really have the required proficiency, they remain frustrated by career growth, yet relatively unmotivated to take the right action. SkillDirector AlumniAssist™ enables alumni to independently assess whether they have the skills of the future, and if not, points them to personalized free experiential learning activities they can do to both learn and practice those skills. It drives real awareness about capability versus expectation, so they will be motivated to act.
Deliver career counseling at scale
People come to you seeking career advice. Through conversations, you can share relevant in-demand roles, and assess readiness for that job. You align their skills and preferences with potential next roles and make general recommendations about how to become ready.
SkillDirector AlumniAssist enables each person to do this on their own, assessing their specific capabilities against different roles via scenario planning. It adds an element of reality and self-awareness about skill gaps. What’s more, it provides specific free, personalized, informal learning activities they can use to both learn and practice those skills.
Learn while you work
You hear it all the time. “I want to develop new skills, but I don’t have time!” The solution? Let them learn while working. It’s not too good to be true – it’s the future of learning.
SkillDirector AlumniAssist includes skill practices as informal learning, so alumni learn WHILE they work or participate in other organizational activities. And this type of learning sticks the because of immediate and relevant application. Especially for critically important soft skills.
Increase consumption of university resources
Have your own resources you want to promote? We can add them to the recommendations to promote and drive demand for both fee and free university activities. This eliminates the challenge many alumni career development professionals have resulting from a volume of learning activities that live in different places. Regardless of search capabilities, alumni often struggle to find what they need.
SkillDirector AlumniAssist ensures that a targeted Personalized Learning Plan is automatically created at the end of the self or career assessment. Now each person knows just what they need and are one click away from using or buying it.
Drive alumni engagement
Alumni engagement directly translates into future giving. Alumni who are actively engaged are likely to become small donors initially, and large donors as their professional success grows from university support.
- Drive alumni capability through career and professional development at scale
- Give members a reason to return monthly to your site to work their Individual Development Plan (IDP) and build a habit of learning
- Ensure awareness of resources and activities they most need through their Personalized Learning Plan
- Know what live events to offer in which geographical areas, with targeted promotion
- Prevent engagement with the wrong resources, which may result in frustration and dissatisfaction
- Enable people to compare themselves to peer benchmarks
- Connect people to peer mentors
Overcome higher ed challenges
According to a study by Georgetown University, 6.2 percent of all college graduates are unable to find full-time work.
According to a survey by Gallup and Northeastern University:
- Only 17% of Americans see higher education as doing a good job preparing workers for the current workforce
- 27% of Americans say 'lack of knowledge around what skills are needed' is a barrier to learning
- Many question the value of a degree from a traditional college or university
To remain competitive for students, it’s important to be a leader in demonstrating not only the value of their education, but your commitment as a lifelong partner in alumni success.
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We have purchase options including a no cost, no risk solution that takes just 4 weeks to implement. And we manage everything.