Making Your Future Work - Alumni

Dedicated alumni are a driving force behind our students' success.  Alumni are key participants in a broad spectrum of career-focused experiential opportunities for students, both on campus and off.  The experience can be as valuable for alumni as for students.

Making Your Future Work benefits alumni too.  By volunteering your time and expertise, you can change a young person's life - and enhance your own.  Your participation gives you the opportunity to:

• Network with fellow alumni and with parents.
• Meet students who are excellent job candidates.
• Renew your connection to the "Gettysburg experience".

Gettysburg alumni and parents are organizing career-focused groups across the nation.  In partnership with our staff, Gettysburg's Great American Cities "hub" groups sponsor numerous activities in their local areas.  For example, "Bright Lights! Big City!" seminars bring students interested in a particular field together with experienced professionals, who help student sharpen their presentation and networking skills.

There are plenty of ways to volunteer: 

• Internships offer students hands-on workplace experience.
• Externships combine an internship with a stay int he workplace host's home, and help students see how to balance their personal and professional lives.
• The Gettysburg Career Connections online database links hundreds of alumni and parents with talented students - and with one another.