But with all the upheavals facing our nation of late; economic downturns, inflation, unemployment, natural disasters, to name just a few, many of our BYU family find it hard to vigorously wave the blue and white because they are struggling with economic hardships.
With these concerns in our mind, we decided to look into what BYU offered its alumni who are looking for employment or career upgrades. We are more than pleased with the many supports offered to our alumni members. If you have been blessed with what you need, then keep an eye out for others who might be unaware of these services and pass the good word on.
BYU Alumni Career Services are free and open to all BYU alumni. With little effort, you can browse through such sites as:
1. Resume helps, job descriptions, interviewing aids, resume power words.
2. Career fair calenders.
3. Job openings, listed by areas, majors, degree/non-degree, etc.
4. Other helpful job site links.
5. International career sites.
Career counseling is also available for those interested.
We called BYU Alumni Career Services and left a message at 9 P.M. in the evening and had a response the next day! Our inquiry produced the following email:
"This is Bethany Brunner with BYU Alumni Career Services. You called yesterday about learning about the services we provide to BYU Alumni. They are as follows:
1. We have a job board that BYU Alumni can look through for current jobs in companies that we network with. There are over 1,000 nationwide jobs on our job board. You can search via degree, location, and/or company name.
2. We have a LinkedIn group called “The Official Brigham Young University Alumni Network” which contains thousands of people who are recruiters, current employees of companies we network with, and alumni. This group provides opportunities for Alumni to meet other Alumni and to establish an instant network to help with your career search.
3. Scott Greenhalgh, the director of BYU Alumni Career Services, is available to meet with Alumni to discuss career options and critique resumes.
Let me know if you have any other questions or if you are interested in using these services.
Bethany Brunner
BYU Alumni Career Services
The Hinckley Center
(801) 422-6933 We also emailed Scott Greenhalgh, the director of BYU Alumni Career Services asking him if there was anything he would like to add in our message today.. He sent us the following:
"I guess the best thing to add is that I am available to discuss career options with alumni. That could be in person by phone or by email.
Scott"
Scott_greenhalgh@byu.edu Phone: 801-422-6933
We spent all of 40 minutes on the BYU Alumni Career Services website and as we stated earlier that 'we are more than just pleased.' For those of our membership looking for employment, there is hope!
Please become familiar with this website and remember, we don't leave college knowing all the answers, we leave having been trained in what to do or where to go to find the answers. This website is 'where to go.'
The church instructs us that we should do all we can do for ourselves financially first, then we are to turn to family. Lets remember that BYU is also a part of our family and offers us help in our times of need.
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