{"id":281,"date":"2021-07-09T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:37:16","slug":"mentoring-information-for-alumni-professionals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/mentoring\/mentoring-information-for-alumni-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Career Conversations with Alumni &amp; Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has a number of programs that connect students and recent graduates with alumni and community members. These interactions provide instruction and real-world learning opportunities not found in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Furman has created the Furman Connect database to help facilitate connections between current students, alumni, and friends of Furman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefurmannetwork.furman.edu\/\">Please join The Furman Network<\/a>. and register to participate in any of the experiences below.<\/p>\n<h1>Career Conversations<\/h1>\n<p>Students of all class levels are encouraged to conduct career conversations to learn more about potential career paths. A career conversation is a purposeful conversation with a professional in a field of interest. It is an effective way to research careers, gain insight into specific industries, and gather advice from individuals already in the working world. The purpose of a career conversation is not to find job openings, although sometimes it may lead to additional opportunities or network connections. A typical interview takes approximately 30 minutes. Although many professional-student pairings choose to continue corresponding after the interview is completed, this is not required.<\/p>\n<p>To become a resource for students conducting career conversations, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefurmannetwork.furman.edu\/\">please join The Furman Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Virtual Career Panels<\/h1>\n<p>The Malone Center for Career Engagement and Academic Affairs welcomes alumni and professionals into the classroom to share their experiences and expertise via virtual career panels.\u00a0 These panels last an hour and are designed to increase student awareness about various majors and careers associated with those majors.\u00a0 Panels are moderated by faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>To register to participate in upcoming Virtual Career Panels, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefurmannetwork.furman.edu\/\">please join The Furman Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has a number of programs that connect students and recent graduates with alumni and community members. These interactions provide instruction and real-world learning opportunities not found in the classroom. Furman has created the Furman Connect database to help facilitate connections between current students, alumni, and friends of Furman. Please join The Furman Network. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":282,"parent":270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions\/622"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}