A Quick Win: Alumni Business Directories
Alumni Business Directories are quick and easy wins for your department to celebrate and recognize your alumni base. A business directory can either be a published document, like a PDF that lists out your alumni business owners including information about the business and contact details.
At Wavelength, we have a dynamic map search for the business directory so that people can be finding alumni businesses to support as they travel or seek help from select professionals. These businesses also have unique logins to be able to post job opportunities for your alumni.
You can easily start your own business directory. We recommend beginning with your short list of alumni you already know who run their own business.
- Ask them to be early adopters
- Capture their complete information
- Begin to mock up the directory so when you request from your larger alumni base to submit, people will see what the publication could look like
This is beneficial for many reasons, your short listed alumni will feel recognized and your larger alumni base will see the value of the directory even before submitted their own information.
You will want to capture the below information in a survey form:
- Alum Name
- Graduation Year
- Company name
- Company address
- Company industry
- Company description
- Company email
- Company phone number
- Company website
- Company logo
After capturing submissions, begin to format the directory by industry, location, or however else you think it should be organized.
Need some help getting started? Reach out to help@searchwavelength.com and we’re happy to assist you.
