January 28th 2020
Sherborne Connect launched two years ago in December 2017. Alumni Officer, Anne Macfarlane details its journey and award winning success over the past couple of years...
"From the outset we were amazed by the enthusiasm with which it was embraced by the Sherborne Community. OSS Secretary, John Harden announced in launch week that he would eat his hat if we ever got 1,000 members and eat his hat he did in early January 2018.
We now have over 2,700 members worldwide made up (at the time of writing) mainly of OS, 141 Sherborne International alumni and 241 parents and of whom 83% have indicated that they are willing to help with careers advice. Percentage wise we have the highest sign up rate of any of the 1,000 plus schools and universities worldwide for whom Graduway hosts a platform and Sherborne was awarded the prize for Outstanding Engagement at this year’s Graduway Conference.
We are not resting on our laurels. We want to engage with more of you so that you can benefit from Sherborne Connect in terms of contacting old friends, joining professional and country groups, offering and receiving careers advice, posting job vacancies and signing up for events. We know that careers mentoring is going on quietly in the background and OS have benefited from careers advice ranging from a chat about a particular industry to work experience and even job offers. In the New Year we are planning on running a more structured mentoring programme and further information will be released shortly.
We are looking forward to signing up our 2,500th OS to the platform and we will be entering new subscribers into a draw for a Sherborne related prize when we achieve that number. We will then be close to our 3,000th member overall, when John will be obliged to eat his third hat.
Thank you to those of you who have signed up and if you haven’t please do so, it is a great platform, just for you."
Anne Macfarlane
Alumni Officer
