By Katherine Laws (’20), Presidential Fellow in the Office of Personal & Career Development at Wake Forest University Alright… here we are: we’ve graduated from college. We feel like freshmen again, but unfortunately there’s no activities fair we can peruse, no upperclassmen who want to […]
By Andrew Snorton (’93), Owner at Creative Community Solutions and Published Author, in Atlanta, GA To be successful on an individual and collective level, professionally and beyond, is one of the goals people have. How do we get there? How do we measure it? One […]
What does it mean to be an ally and to build an inclusive workplace? This article from HR Dive explores what real allyship looks like in practice, and how setting new cultural norms through allyship can drive inclusive practices within an organization.
In our Wednesday Webinar from April 15, 2020, Assistant Director for Alumni Personal & Career Development at Wake Forest Megan Hoyt (’12) shares best practices and tips for building your network virtually in the midst of a global pandemic. Additionally, she provides advice for how […]
The Wake Forest alumni network is strong and robust with active WAKECommunities and interest-specific affinity groups in cities across the country and globe. But how can you make the most out of these great connections? In this Harvard Business Review article, author Dorie Clark […]
During Homecoming weekend 2019, we asked alumni how they went about finding mentors, advisers, friends, people, and a community to support them in their personal and professional lives. Learn from their reflections below!
This past summer, our Alumni Personal and Career Development Center team launched a week-long challenge on our @LifeAfterWake Instagram account to #findyourpeople. In this challenge we provided five simple action items that you can take over five days to strengthen your network […]
What makes a community thrive? How does a community go from ordinary to extraordinary? Drawing on excerpts from her new book, Get Together, How to Build Community with Your People, this First Round Review interview with start-up community manager and author Bailey Richardson highlights […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University As college students, we are taught the value of the informational interview: to build connections, learn about industries and roles, and to introduce ourselves to potential connections without […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University If you’re like me, you hate anything that looks like, sounds like, smells like, or feels like networking. You make up excuses not to attend events where you’ll […]
