Making connections—that’s what the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan is all about. We offer members and current U-M students comprehensive resources designed to leverage the powerful U-M alumni network, including access to career services offered by our affiliate organizations and other diversity initiatives.
AAUM Affiliate Organization Network
Increase the power of your network through connections to other U-M alumni societies and councils that work to promote the visibility and interests of their members. Many of these U-M alumni societies also offer career and networking services to their constituent alumni. To learn more about the services available from any of the following groups, please visit our Affiliate Organizations page.
- African-American Alumni Council
- Alumnae Council
- Gay and Lesbian Alumni Society
- Hispanic Alumni Council
- University of Michigan Entertainment Coalition
- University of Michigan Association of Jewish Alumni
Women in Business
Ross School of Business Women’s Initiative – The Women in Business Initiative strives to maximize the opportunity and advancement for U-M alumnae in business. The Initiative focuses on recruiting women to apply to the University of Michigan Business School, creating a welcoming environment for women students, and reaching out to alumnae to support their careers through networking and resources.
U-M Center for the Education of Women – The Center for the Education of Women assists hundreds of women and men each year, as they make decisions about their futures. The comprehensive counseling program supports exploration of educational and career interests within the context of relationships and life circumstances. Professionally trained counselors work within a developmental framework to help women and men consider their options, make informed choices, and both define and resolve problems, while focusing on issues of achieving balance between work and family responsibilities.
U-M Women in Science and Engineering – There are enormous opportunities for women with educational backgrounds in science, engineering and mathematics fields. The WISE Program seeks to ensure that every woman with the potential and interest in these career fields has the necessary background and support to pursue these professions. In order to reach this goal, the WISE Program offers many different programs and resources for K-12, undergraduate and graduate students.
Additional Resources for Women
ExecuDiva – Additional CEOExpress resources especially for women executives.
Forté Foundation – Forté Foundation’s mission is to increase the number of women business owners and business leaders and to support their careers through business education and networks.
The National Association for Female Executives – NAFE, the largest women’s professional association and the largest women business owners’ organization in the country, provides resources and services—through education, networking, and public advocacy—to empower its members to achieve career success and financial security.
netGoddess.com – netGoddess.com is the premier online women’s career management community, where “they mean business!” They continue to bring you unique career management tools and content.
Working Mother – Working Mother magazine, founded in 1979, reaches more than 3 million readers each month and is the only national business magazine written for executive and entrepreneurial mothers. Its annual ranking of the “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” is a benchmark for businesses learning to value employee loyalty and retention.
Womans-Work.com – Womans-Work.com is a complete flexible work resource. Search their free revolutionary job board. Find more than 30,000 fresh telecommuting, job sharing, part time, work from home and flex scheduling jobs. Look for a job share partner. Find great career, family, work-life and life balance content.
Additional Resources for Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender
Gay Financial Network – With free daily news and information, plus the best in online trading, home mortgages, online banking, insurance and more from top-name financial partners, gfn.com is empowering the gay community toward realizing its American dream. The Web site features a job board and other career resources.
Gaywork.com – All of the companies that post job openings on Gaywork.com are truly equal opportunity employers. Most have non-discrimination policies.
Additional Resources for Minorities in the Workplace
The Black Collegian Online – The Black Collegian Online provides cutting-edge information on career resources for black collegians. Job search strategies, graduate school opportunities, career and industry reports are abundantly explored. This site is the cyberspace partner of The Black Collegian magazine, serving the career and self-development interests of African-American collegians throughout America since 1970.
Blackvoices.com – A highly effective resource tool for employers looking for top diversity job candidates. With the largest database of African-American resumes, Blackvoices.com features job postings and company profiles. This popular lifestyle portal has a career center that offers advice and resources, virtual and in-person career fairs, and a job board.
ihispano.com – A career site specifically for Hispanic professionals created by David Gomez, president and founder of David Gomez & Associates, the largest Hispanic-owned Executive Search firm in the United States. Features job search, resume posting, news and advice.
LatPro.com – LatPro.com is the leading employment source for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking professionals throughout the Americas. They provide access to the most progressive, high-growth companies, using personalized tools to make the process effective, efficient and convenient.
Saludos.com – Saludos.com’s Hispanic employment service promotes workforce diversity and offers free resume postings to qualified bilingual professionals. The primary goal of Saludos Hispanos is to act as the conduit between applicants and potential employers who share the objective of reflecting the diversity of today’s population in the workplace.
Additional Resources for Workers Over 40
RetireeWorkforce.com – This site is dedicated to providing exciting employment opportunities for any schedule. Their job database contains unique part-time, flexible, seasonal and even full-time positions you won’t find on other job search sites. More importantly, the employers that post to RetireeWorkforce.com are specifically looking for more experienced and mature candidates. Companies of all sizes from across the nation are seeking candidates through RetireeWorkforce.com because candidates have the right blend of maturity and experience.
PrimeCB.Com – This is a division of Career Builder.com which provides resources and advice for experienced workers.
RetirementJobs.com – The goal of this site is to identify companies most-suited to older workers. It matches them with active, productive, conscientious, mature adults seeking a job or project.
Experience Works – Experience Works is a national, nonprofit organization that provides training and employment services for mature workers. Established in 1965 as Green Thumb, and renamed Experience Works in 2002, the organization reaches more than 125,000 mature individuals in all 50 states and Puerto Rico each year.
ThirdAge – A destination on the World Wide Web serving interests and needs of first-wave baby boomers, adults in their mid-40s through 50s. The money channel has a section on “Your Next Job” with information about advancement, career changes, entrepreneurship and retirement.
Additional Resources for Individuals with Disabilities
The Disability Resources Monthly Webwatcher Employment Listing – Disability Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit 501©(3) organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play independently.
Job Seeking Skills for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Success – A handbook for service providers to use as a counseling tool or for individuals with disabilities to use on their own. Provides an overview of the career planning process, including considerations for the applicant with a disability.
National Business and Disability Council – The leading national resource for companies and agencies that are hiring, working with, and marketing to people with disabilities.
U.S. Dept of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy – In the FY2001 Department of Labor appropriation, Congress approved an Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) to be headed by an Assistant Secretary. ODEP’s mission is to provide leadership to increase employment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities.
WeMedia – An online version of WeMedia magazine. The Web site concentrates on news, sports, accessible and assistive technologies, politics and advocacy, shopping, employment, education, finance and real estate from a disability perspective.
Additional Diversity Resources
CareerJournal.com – CareerJournal.com offers a large collection of diversity articles in its Manage Your Career section, as well as periodic special reports and a listing of Who’s Hiring in Diversity.
Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology Online – Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology is a magazine that covers technical and career issues of interest to engineers and information technology professionals who are part of the growing diverse technical workforce. Each issue’s feature articles address the concerns of engineers who are members of minority groups, women, or people with disabilities. Links to the job boards of firms who advertise in the print version of the magazine are included in the “careers” section of the Web site. A separate edition is printed for minority college students.
Fortune – Check out the Fortune 500, Best Companies to Work For and Best Companies for Minorities lists.
HireDiversity.com – HireDiversity.com is the premier online service for diversity career development and recruitment. They provide the highest quality services and networking opportunities to clients while linking multicultural and bilingual professionals with the fastest-growing, most-profitable industry sectors both nationally and internationally. Includes news channels for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, disabled people, gays and lesbians, Hispanics, mature workers, Native-Americans, veterans and women.
HirePotential – HirePotential specializes in employing people with disabilities, mature workers, veterans and individuals from other niche groups. HirePotential understands your needs and can place you in rewarding and competitive jobs with attractive benefits at leading companies across the country that want you.
IMdiversity.com – IMDiversity.com (formerly Minorities Job Bank) is dedicated to providing career and self-development information to all minority job seekers and underrepresented groups, particularly to African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native-Americans and women.
Quintessential Careers – Job resources for mature and older jobseekers, including baby boomers.
Riley Guide – Resources for women, minorities, and other affinity groups and audiences.
The Alumni Association is always interested in learning more about your favorite career resources and improving this section of the Web site. If you run across a broken link, great Web site we haven’t listed, or a service that you think would make a good new partner, please let us know about it by sending e-mail to AAUMCareerPort@umich.edu.
