Do you need to connect to other IIT Alumni for professional
reasons? Could your company or organization benefit by hiring more alumni from
the IITs? Are you thinking about a job or career change? If you answered yes to
any of these questions, you might want to join the IIT Alumni group on LinkedIn
by clicking here.
LinkedIn is an online, professional-oriented networking
service that strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts.
Using the service you can find past and present colleagues and batchmates
quickly. Over 30,000 IIT Alumni are already registered on LinkedIn. For third-party opinions on the value of free LinkedIn services read About.com and
Guy Kawasaki ,former Apple Computer Evangelist.
We intend to create a permission-based network to empower
IIT Alumni who wish to interconnect with other alumni to do so. A survey among the first 100 alumni members of the IIT Alumni
group on LinkedIn revealed that the top reason to join was to connect with fellow Alumni.
(Of course Linked In will let you connect with 15 million other members, half of which are based outside the United States
and a good chunk are in India).
The same survey revealed that our early members preferred LinkedIn over the nearest
rivals Plaxo and Facebook by a huge margin. Today, Carnegie-Mellon University has the
largest alumni network on LinkedIn. We think that the IIT Network can be more
vibrant and larger still.
If you received this email directly from us, you are already
pre-approved to join the IIT Alumni group, just click the link below and follow the instructions; which will vary depending on whether you are already a member of LinkedIn or not. If someone forwarded this email to
you, your name will be placed in a pending state for group membership, and it may take sometime
before you are approved. Feel free to forward this email to any alumnus of the
seven IITs: Bombay, Delhi,
Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee. Current and former
faculty members are also welcome to join. The IIT Alumni Group is not intended
for IIT students, spouses and family members at this time; depending on
response we may start additional groups in the future.
To join the IIT Alumni Group on LinkedIn, start by clicking here.
