Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Network With Harvard Alums
During my college years, I was a Co-President of the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association. I had a great time and learned much from older alums and my fellow officers. We organized many social, political and cultural activities. I was also an executive in the East Coast Asian American Student Union. It was awesome to travel to different college campuses every month for meetings with other student leaders.
I will be going back up to Boston on March 11th, 2006, for the first ever Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Alumni Reunion dinner and dance. I'm honored that the current officers of the organization asked me to be one of the honorary hosting committee members. I look forward to reconnecting with some old friends, as well as meeting others on the honorary committee who graduated more recently.
If you have any friends who attended Harvard and may be interested in the reunion, please forward them information about this great networking event.
My general recommendation for networking is to get involved with your alumni networks. Not only the alumni events sponsored by your alma maters, but perhaps you were a student leader at one of the many clubs or organizations. Get back in touch with the current student leadership. You may offer to speak on a panel or give a workshop on a topic that you are passionate about or or a subject matter expert in. Several years after I graduated from Harvard, while I was still living in the Boston area and working at Accenture, I gave a workshop to the students at the Asian American Association on "How to Give Effective Presentations".
Not only was this good practice for me to apply what I learned from a training session from Accenture, but it helped me to start building my credibility as a public speaker. A couple of years later, I gave a similar workshop at a National Association of Asian American Professional's annual conference in Los Angeles.
-Joshua Li
I will be going back up to Boston on March 11th, 2006, for the first ever Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Alumni Reunion dinner and dance. I'm honored that the current officers of the organization asked me to be one of the honorary hosting committee members. I look forward to reconnecting with some old friends, as well as meeting others on the honorary committee who graduated more recently.
If you have any friends who attended Harvard and may be interested in the reunion, please forward them information about this great networking event.
My general recommendation for networking is to get involved with your alumni networks. Not only the alumni events sponsored by your alma maters, but perhaps you were a student leader at one of the many clubs or organizations. Get back in touch with the current student leadership. You may offer to speak on a panel or give a workshop on a topic that you are passionate about or or a subject matter expert in. Several years after I graduated from Harvard, while I was still living in the Boston area and working at Accenture, I gave a workshop to the students at the Asian American Association on "How to Give Effective Presentations".
Not only was this good practice for me to apply what I learned from a training session from Accenture, but it helped me to start building my credibility as a public speaker. A couple of years later, I gave a similar workshop at a National Association of Asian American Professional's annual conference in Los Angeles.
-Joshua Li
