{"id":562,"date":"2018-06-06T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/?post_type=article&#038;p=562"},"modified":"2018-06-07T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T03:02:13","slug":"alumni-and-admissions-sig-report","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/article\/alumni-and-admissions-sig-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni and Admissions SIG Report &#8211; 23 Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint session of alumni and admissions professionals we discussed answers to the question: <em><strong>\u201chow can alumni play a role in the recruitment process?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The overall feeling was that alumni and admissions teams do complement each other.\u00a0 Through actively involving incoming students with alumni right at the start builds the foundation for a life-long commitment to the School or University.\u00a0 Through promoting stories of successful alumni, inviting alumni to be ambassadors and advocates proved to be the main ways that alumni can be involved in the recruitment process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was then asked <em><strong>\u201cwhat does success look like?\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Measuring success was determined as: the number of mentors, successful conversions, \u201cclick throughs\u201d for more information, number of alumni leaders, and number of alumni who update their details.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All in all the discussions where fruitful and the two groups thought a second joint SIG would be well received.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint session of alumni and admissions professionals we discussed answers to the question: \u201chow can alumni play a role in the recruitment process?\u00a0 The overall feeling was that alumni and admissions teams do complement each other.\u00a0 Through actively involving incoming students with alumni right at the start builds the foundation for a life-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-562","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}