ALUMNI NEWS NOTES MOMENTUM The McDonough School of Business Alumni and External Relations team is here to enhance your experience as an alumnus and continually add value to your life both professionally and personally. As alumni, you have access to a huge global network of Georgetown graduates across schools and programs, and we are committed to helping you make connections whenever and wherever you need or want. In the last issue of Georgetown Business, we told you about our enhanced tools to help you stay connected and maximize relationships with other alumni. We are interested to hear how these online platforms and communities — the Georgetown University Career Network, McDonough MBA Career Conversations, and the Hoya Gateway — are working for you. If you have yet to try out these tools, we encourage you take a look and become acquainted with them. There are a myriad of ways to utilize these tools, for example: • Make “inside” connections, whether you are seeking new and exciting opportunities to further your career or contacts in other companies that might have synergies with your business. • Looking for talented people to join your company? Through our tools you can find and recruit new undergraduate and MBA graduates or seasoned professionals with a strong educational foundation. • There often is great satisfaction in giving back by lending a hand up to future business leaders. Our alumni network creates opportunities for alumni to mentor and share career advice with new graduates and students. • Alumni tell us that the relationships they had while at Georgetown were some of the most important in their lifetime. These networks help you maintain close ties with your classmates, as well as reach out to those ahead of and behind you. All of these networks are accessible through a single portal: msb.georgetown.edu/alumni/networks. We look forward to hearing about your experiences. Send me note about your connections and successful networking engagements at justine.schaffner@georgetown.edu. Hoya Saxa!
Show and Tell When a wave of protests known as Euromaidan erupted in Ukraine in 2013, it altered the course of Ruslan Petrychka’s career. Petrychka (MBA ’14) was an Evening Program student at the McDonough School of Business with his sights set on becoming a business executive at a top-rated news agency. PROFILE
Justine Schaffner Assistant Dean, Alumni and External Relations Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Alumni
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