Almost two thousand IIT Alumni have joined the official IIT Alumni group on LinkedIn since its launch a few weeks ago. The group now has more alumni than all the individual IIT groups put together. Read on if you have not joined yet.
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 should apply to join the official IIT Alumni group on LinkedIn.
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. In order to apply to join, you must first fill out a profile about yourself that includes (at the very minimum) the specific IIT that you graduated from, the year, and the degree. It takes several days for your request to be reviewed.
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Guy Kawasaki, former Apple Computer Evangelist.
To join the IIT Alumni Group on LinkedIn, start by clicking here.