The Alumni Office has been established in May 2010 in response to increasing and more conscious need to maintain the best relations with the SGH graduates and growing interest of graduates in cooperation with their Alma Mater.

History of the office:

Previously the office functioned under different names – initially, since 1995 till 2004 as the Alumni Promotion Centre, then as a Career Centre and since 2007 as the Centre for Career and Fundraising. The office has taken over part of the tasks so far performed by the Center for Career and Fundraising (now the Office for Corporate Relations), i.e. these tasks that are involved in facilitating the careers of our students and graduates.

The office performs also duties previously carried out by the Rector’s representative for Alumni.
 

The main tasks of the Alumni Office:

• establishing and maintaining relations between alumni and our university,
• providing students and alumni with the career consultancy, assistance in finding traineeship, internship and job offers in Poland and abroad,
• support in building professional career path of our graduates.

The Alumni Office’s activities:

• administering the Career Portal (kariera.sgh.waw.pl),
• seeking and collection of traineeship, internship and job offers for students and alumni,
• providing professional career consultancy services, helping with preparation of CV’s and covering letters.
• gathering information concerning students and alumni employment,
• maintaining relations with graduates within various SGH alumni associations,
• organizing meetings with employers and companies,
• cooperation with many other universities within the Polish Network of Career Centres.

Alumni Office offers:

For students and alumni:

• traineeship, internship and job offers,
• career consultancy with regard to choosing the major of studies and future job,
• workshops teaching how to enter the labour market successfully, e.g.:
  • self-presentation
  • interpersonal communication
  • self-motivation
  • recruitment and selection process
  • preparation of job application
• advisory concerning preparation of job application documents.

For alumni:

• Warsaw School of Economics’ Alumni Card, giving a possibility to benefit from a rich range of discounts and bonuses,
• graduation ceremony,
• assistance in organizing alumni meetings,
• information on the possibility to continue education at SGH,
• help in obtaining documents from the other institutions of SGH(dean offices, archive).

For employers:

• publishing traineeship, internship and job offers in the Career Portal,
• advertising actions and organization of company presentation in SGH,
• participation in conferences and meetings organized by our office,
• initial recruitment organized for potential candidates.