Lboro connect is an online community where Loughborough Students and Alumni can build knowledge and share experiences through networking and mentoring.
Students and alumni can sign up to mentor or be mentored, build their profile and search for other members who can help answer questions or provide career or sector insights.
Careers Network and the Alumni Office will encourage students and alumni to set up profiles and connect with one another. Students can use their LU student login, or set-up using their LinkedIn or Facebook accounts – making registration and profile updates simple.
As well as the mentoring benefits, students and alumni can form peer or special interest groups (as on LinkedIn). The platform also provides a really positive and easy way for alumni to re-engage, stay in touch and continue to contribute to the University, which most are very keen to do.
- Start by joining groups related to your interests
- Post questions and observations to strike up a conversation
- Comment on other members’ posts to start building a rapport
- Start following members within the group and continue the conversation!
- Under “people”, start filtering through those with similar interests and experience as you, or search for those with the experience and skills you wish to have
- Follow those you have filtered and follow up with a message explaining why you have done so. By following them, this will allow you to read a “digest” of their activity and get to know them