Alumni

Whether you’re seeking career guidance, exploring new opportunities, or giving back, CCI has you covered. Explore career resources tailored for alumni, schedule an advising appointment, or connect with other alumni and students through our professional networks.

Join our Online Communities

Midd2Midd: Middlebury’s alumni platform connecting students, alumni, and parents for mentoring, networking, and engagement.

Middlebury College LinkedIn Community: A professional network with over 8,000 members.

Middlebury Careers Facebook Group: Over 6,000 members sharing job opportunities and career advice.

Use the sections below to:

• Learn more about how you can help current Middlebury students and fellow alumni
• Midd2Midd connects Middlebury students, alumni, and parents, supporting mentoring, networking, and engagement within the Middlebury community around the world.
• Browse a compilation of Career Resources for alumni.

Career Resources

CCI is here to support you no matter where you are in your career journey. Check out the resources below as well as additional information on changing careers.

Online Resources

• Handshake Find job opportunities in Middlebury’s Handshake platform based on your career interests and goals. Also use this platform to schedule a career advising appointment.
  • To update the email on your Handshake account please follow these instructions.
• Midd2Midd An online platform that facilitates mentoring, networking, and outreach across the Middlebury community of students, alumni, and parents.
• Middlebury College LinkedIn Community A professional networking site for members of Middlebury’s extended family, including alumni, students, parents, faculty and staff. Group is administered by college staff.
• Middlebury College LinkedIn Network An alumni facilitated professional networking group where alumni share opportunities with members of the Middlebury community.  
• Middlebury Careers Facebook Group A private, alumni facilitated Facebook group for posting and learning about job opportunities.
• Live Career A career, job, and college site offering free career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tools, tips, samples, and tutorials), as well as serving as a directory of links to all job sites.

Private Career Coaches

This article can help you decide if a career coach is right for you: “Do You Need a Career Coach? Ten Tips for Finding and Working with a Coach” (Katharine Brooks)

Below are some coaches and coaching organizations we recommend:

• Binyamin Tjong-Alvares ‘96, Private and Business Coaching
• Susan Walker, Susan Walker Coaching
• Cori Ashworth, Career Continuum
• Caroline Dowd Higgins
• National Career Development Association Directory
• National Board of Certified Counselors
• International Coach Federation

Books

Your Next Giant Reset: A Career Comeback Guide by Leilani M. Brown ‘93

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work by Lindsey Pollak

What Color is Your Parachute? You Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success by Richard Bolles with Katharine Brooks

What Color is Your Parachute? For College: Pave Your Path From Major to Meaningful Work by Katharine Brooks

You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career by Katharine Brooks

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger

Schedule an Appointment

To schedule a 30-minute consultation with a career advisor, Middlebury alumni may use Handshake to request an in-person, or video chat appointment.

To do this Alumni need to create or update their accounts in Handshake so they can sign on without a Middlebury email. Follow the instructions.

Please note: Because demand from current undergraduates is particularly high during the academic year, there may be a two-week or more wait for an appointment during peak periods (September, October, April, and May).

Alumni Directory

You can now update your contact information, do a basic search for other alumni, and interact with the Middlebury alumni and student community through Midd2Midd—a network for the Middlebury community that provides opportunities to give and receive career advice, join specific groups, and mentor Middlebury students.

Access the Directory by completing our simple sign-up process. If you are interested in professional networking or volunteering as a mentor, you can also sign up for Midd2Midd using the same account. 

The Directory is a secure platform that allows alumni to connect safely with each other. As a user, you can choose whether or not to make your personal information (such as address, phone number, or email) visible to other users. All Middlebury College alumni (name, class year, major) will be included in the directory by default, although you can edit your entry or opt out entirely.

How You Can Help

The Middlebury Network connects students and alumni to opportunities around the world. We invite you to become a part of it.

• Offer an internship: Internships enable students to explore career options, pursue academic interests or personal passions, acquire practical work experience, and make the connections they’ll need to find work after graduation.
• Post a job: A Middlebury education prepares students for myriad careers. If you have a job that you’d like to fill with a Middlebury graduate, we would like to help you publicize it.
• Recruit on campus: Information sessions, on-campus interviews, and webinars can be scheduled to meet your recruiting needs.
• Recruit off campus: You can also recruit Middlebury students through our off-campus recruiting sessions in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

Learn more about other employer opportunities.

Share Your Expertise

• Provide career advice. Midd2Midd connects Middlebury students, alumni, and parents, supporting mentoring, networking, and engagement within the Middlebury community around the world.
• Become a professional in residence. During your next visit to campus, talk with students about your work and career path and their related career interests.

Make a Gift for Internships

Make a gift to support unpaid internships and other experiential learning opportunities. National studies show that an internship experience makes students significantly more likely to land a job after graduation. However, many internships are unpaid, and often students cannot afford to participate in them. You can help with your gift of any size.

Changing Careers

Making the decision to change your career after many years, leave your current job to pursue something totally different, or to move to a different geographic location, can be daunting.

The process, however, is very similar to when you searched for your first position. Below are some pointers for changing careers effectively.

Self Exploration

The first step in your career change campaign is knowing yourself:

• What are your skills, interests and values and how have they been applied in work situations?
• What have you learned from your past experiences (including academic and/or volunteer) about your own work preferences in terms of culture or environment?
• Where do you wish to live?
• What are your financial requirements?

Career Exploration

Knowledge of the job market in general and, specifically, the industry in which you seek employment—will help determine how you target your search. networking will be an important way for you to research this information. Career Services offers many “how to” resources on networking, including how to use Midd2Midd. Your career exploration should help you learn:

• Which positions and industries match your skills, interests and values?
• Which offer the best opportunity for the present and growth for the future?
• What service needs are being projected for a rising and/or changing population?
• Where are the pockets of specific industries located?

Career Action Plan

Once you have identified an industry (or industries) that fits your career interests and goals, you will then develop an action plan for uncovering opportunities in that field.

Develop and refine your resume.

Your new resume must do more than list your experience and employment history. Now, especially, it is important to show how your experience relates to the new career or job-type that you seek. In the course of your career(s) you have acquired many skills that, although used in a specific industry or job, translate to the competencies needed for the new job. These are your transferable skills and it will be important for you to to effectively communicate these transferable skills on your resume.

See our resume tips for additional guidance.

Network!

Your potential network includes your many personal and business contacts: family, friends, professional associates, social acquaintances, business colleagues, former professors and, especially, your fellow Middlebury alumni. Be sure to include Midd2Midd in your networking efforts. It is a ready-made community of alumni who have volunteered to help fellow alumni and students with career advice and information. Also see our networking tips for helpful information.

Update your interviewing skills.

Strengthen your competence and confidence by reviewing these interviewing tips. A key part of interviewing is the ability to articulate why you are a good fit for the job - and this is especially important when changing careers.

Contact Us

Staff at the Center for Careers and Internships would be glad to talk with you about ways you can help Middlebury students and alumni. For more information, email cci@middlebury.edu.