{"id":161,"date":"2015-09-17T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-09-17T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:02:35","slug":"connect-over-coffee-supports-networking-with-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/2015\/09\/17\/connect-over-coffee-supports-networking-with-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect Over Coffee Supports Networking with Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 14.7pt; background: #F4F3F3;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;\">The CDO&#8217;s Connect Over Coffee program supports professional relationship-building efforts by encouraging you to identify and meet with alumni-practitioners for career exploration and advice. You are encouraged to identify at least one alum in your preferred geographic area with whom you can conduct an informational interview. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.7pt; background: #F4F3F3;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;\">After initiating outreach with the alum, conducting the informational interview, and engaging in appropriate follow up, you may request reimbursement for coffee (or another non-alcoholic beverage or snacks) consumed during the meeting, up to a maximum of $10 per student per academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.7pt; background: #F4F3F3;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;\">If you need assistance identifying an alum to meet through the Connect Over Coffee program, schedule an appointment with your career advisor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.7pt; background: #F4F3F3;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;\">To read the full Connect Over Coffee program guidelines, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/files\/2015\/09\/Connect-Over-Coffee-Student-Guidelines.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDO&#8217;s Connect Over Coffee program supports professional relationship-building efforts by encouraging you to identify and meet with alumni-practitioners for career exploration and advice. You are encouraged to identify at least one alum in your preferred geographic area with whom you can conduct an informational interview. After initiating outreach with the alum, conducting the informational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2177,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1151,740],"tags":[1288,638,29956],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking","category-programs","tag-alumni","tag-coffee","tag-networking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/files\/2015\/09\/flyer-small.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}