Hi,

How and where in RE do you track your alumni work/career promotions as a result of graduating or attending your college/university?

The question is addressed to new (30 years old), small colleges or universities (26,000 alumni) for working adults.  

First we though of using Business Tab but a new organization relationship to a constituent can’t reflect if there is a change of employment horizontally or vertically.

We also thought of using Prospect Rating tab and to use notes to describe if the new rating is a promotion or not.  

Any idea would be greatly appreciated,

Carmen C.

RE-DBA

 Hi Carmen,  Have you thought about using attributes on the constituent record or organizational relationship?  You could set up an attribute called Job Change (or whatever), then have a set table of promtion, demotion, or horizontal.  Then you can pull queries and reports based on these and get everything from raw numbers to specifics.

 Just a thought.

Mat

 Hi Carmen,

 My school is officially 60 years old (but has been 'on its own' for less time than that), small (roughly 17,000 alums), and we have a very large proportion of working adults (vs. traditional students).

I've been putting these in a Note, type "Alumni Update", then entering text in the note field.  This has the advantage of being able to cut-and-paste from a press release from your school, or an employer announcement, of any length.  It has the disadvantage of getting tumbled in with many other types of "Alumni Updates" ... unless you want to set up a particular type for Alumni Promotions and Advancements or some such.

I'll confess I'm a little partial to Mat's attribute idea, however.  Shorter, simpler, quicker.  The attribute could be set up to indicate if there was more information in a Note, I suppose.