Friday, January 06, 2006
Reconnect With Your Former Colleagues
Today, I had a good networking discussion with Joe McCafferty. Joe was one of my mentors at Accenture, and I enjoyed our quarterly dinners at nice restaurants in Boston. After we both left Accenture, we lost touch for a long time. We reconnected recently through LinkedIn.
When you create your LinkedIn profile, you can list all the previous companies that you worked for. From the main page, you can then easily search for other colleagues who used to work at one of your former companies and invited them to connect to you. That is how Joe and I reconnected.
Joe is the owner and Managing Director of Tandem Solutions, a consulting company that focuses on organizational development and learning development consulting. We reminisced about our days at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and traded news of other ex-Accenture folks we kept in touch with. We also shared info about people we think can help us in our current roles.
Accenture has a website for alumni to reconnect with each other. I think that most large companies probably have something similar. If you searched for your previous companies' alumni network on Google, you're probably going to find it if there is one. I think it would be a great networking tool for you to join.
Finally, here's an article about the benefits of reconnecting with former colleagues.
When you create your LinkedIn profile, you can list all the previous companies that you worked for. From the main page, you can then easily search for other colleagues who used to work at one of your former companies and invited them to connect to you. That is how Joe and I reconnected.
Joe is the owner and Managing Director of Tandem Solutions, a consulting company that focuses on organizational development and learning development consulting. We reminisced about our days at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and traded news of other ex-Accenture folks we kept in touch with. We also shared info about people we think can help us in our current roles.
Accenture has a website for alumni to reconnect with each other. I think that most large companies probably have something similar. If you searched for your previous companies' alumni network on Google, you're probably going to find it if there is one. I think it would be a great networking tool for you to join.
Finally, here's an article about the benefits of reconnecting with former colleagues.
