More Alumni Returning to Alma Maters for Career Advice

Back to School -- For Career Advice JOANN LUBLIN Wall Street Journal Maura J. Murrihy received outplacement assistance after a Hinsdale, Ill., bank laid her off late last year. The senior portfolio manager was surprised when the outplacement firm suggested that she also seek help from her alma mater, the Kellogg School of Management, located on Northwestern University's bucolic campus here. The 1981 M.B.A. graduate learned she could choose one of its five alumni career coaches to give her unlimited, free advice. Ms. Murrihy worked for three months with a Kellogg coach, and ultimately landed a job with a Chicago investment consultancy. The coach "added an important layer of accountability to my job search," she says of her demanding counselor. "When you're 51 years old, you need all the help you can get." "This spring, I personally received more calls and emails from alums seeking job-hunting help than at any time in the past four years," says Aspasia Apostolakis Miller, an official of the Northwestern Alumni Association... Full story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121485622574117001.html?mod=googlenews_wsj