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Volunteer for Oberlin
Alumni Volunteer Positions
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Volunteer
for the Alumni Office
You
can indicate your desire to volunteer by editing the "Activities
& Interests" section of your Alumni
Directory Profile. As a volunteer
you can:
- Serve
on your local Oberlin Club steering committee.
- Recruit
new students for Oberlin
- Host
an event at your home.
- Host
an event at my office/other location.
- Offer
short-term housing to current students (see Housing Guidelines
for Alumni) - The greatest need for housing is during
Winter Term when many students would like to accept unpaid
internships in locations other than their hometown.
Help others- and yourself- through the Office of Career
Services
Do you have
practical experience in a particular field? Or perhaps
you'd just like to share a few interview tips with a current
student? You can provide advice through informational
interviews in person, via telephone, or e-mail, or even provide
leads about internships, summer, and full-time employment
opportunities. You may also wish to encourage your employer
to recruit at Oberlin; please let us know where you work,
so you can be added to our database of potential resources
for students and alumni. Contact Career Services at
(440) 775-8140 or dcareer@oberlin.edu.
Through
the Office of Career Services, you can:
- Offer a winter term
internship
- Post a job
- Be
a Career Mentor -
One of the most popular ways to assist students is to serve
as a career mentor. Oberlin alumni career mentors are willing
to talk to current students and other alumni about their
career field, to share advice and information, and to help
facilitate networking. While all alumni in the online directory
are accessible to students, many students are hesitant to
contact someone they don’t know for career advice without
some indication that the person is open to being contacted.
Consequently, students look for alumni career mentors first.
You
can easily indicate your willingness to be a career mentor
by editing the "Professional" section of your
Alumni
Directory Profile. To
assist you in being a career mentor to students, check out
our Tips for Career
Mentors.
You
can also help yourself by joining one or more Oberlin Career
Networks, which allow you to network with other Obies
in fields of interest to you. You can join these networks
by editing the "Professional" section of your Alumni
Directory Profile.
Take an active role in the future of Oberlin by helping
the Admissions Office
As an alumna/us of Oberlin College, you are also a lifetime
ambassador. Share your knowledge and experience with
potential Oberlin students and tell the Admissions Office
about them as well. You may also volunteer to talk with
prospective students and their parents during college fairs
and interview days at high schools in your city. Sometimes
even something as simple as wearing your Oberlin sweatshirt
can lead to informal conversations with future Oberlinians.
For further details on how you can help, you may contact the
Arts and Science Admissions Office at (800) 622-6243, or the
Conservatory Admissions Office at (440) 775-8413; you
may also e-mail at arn@oberlin.edu
or conservatory.admissions@oberlin.edu
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