inDegree!

inDegree! is a professional networking website for graduate students and one of the newest partners of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS).

The latest professional networking website to hit the web announces its launch to the general public. The brainchild of FSU MBA alumni Alex Miningham and FSU Associate Professor Molly Wasko, http://www.facebook.com/l/;inDegree.com is the first and only website that uses the power of professional networking to create an enterprise solution specifically for graduate student placement and alumni services.  By pioneering a 3-dimensional networking model, inDegree builds valuable relationships among three stakeholder groups:

1. Graduate Students/Alumni

2. Organizations

3. Universities.

The inDegree founders set out to solve important problems faced by most university graduate programs. “The key to effective job placements is to aggregate graduate students from programs across the country into one centralized location so that organizations can easily target them,” says co-founder Molly Wasko.  Graduate students have a hard time differentiating themselves in the job market, and there are simply not enough graduate students at each university to support on-campus employer recruiting.  Furthermore, current job seeking websites do not offer unique services for people with graduate degrees, resulting in tedious job searches and low content job prospects.  “The launch of inDegree is incredibly timely, as graduate students enter one of the toughest job markets in decades.  Creating a niche professional network of highly educated workers not only helps graduate students find jobs, but provides an invaluable service to organizations trying to identify the best recruits”, says CEO, Alex Miningham.

Below are only some of the features offered to each type of user:

ORGANIZATION

With inDegree, you can easily target potential new hires from an elite professional network – graduate degree holders only!

· Brand your organization. Create a company profile using our advanced features to market your organization to our elite community of users – graduate students and graduate degree holders only.
· Gain unlimited access to our members. There are no limits on the number of job postings, searches for job-candidates, or communications with our members. Members indicate whether they are active or passive job seekers, which saves you time and money.
· Manage all of your job postings and job candidates through one interface.
· Download profiles, resumes, or both, to tailor resume books for open positions.
· Coordinate directly with university graduate programs. Use inDegree to identify your best on-campus recruiting prospects and coordinate with all universities through one centralized interface.

GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

The FIRST and ONLY professional networking website that limits membership to graduate degree holders.

The inDegree professional network is an exclusive placement and networking site for graduate students and graduate degree holders only. Quit competing with undergraduates for career services! All graduate degrees are welcome from across all academic disciplines: MBA's, Lawyers, Doctors, Nurses, Educators, Scientists, Researchers, Engineers, IT Personnel, Ph.D.s, etc.

inDegree gives you an advantage because we help organizations find you!

· Improve Job Placement Success. Create a professional profile and upload your resume for review by legitimate organizations seeking people with graduate degrees. Search through over 500,000 jobs specifically targeting graduate degrees holders!
· Stay Connected to Classmates. Through inDegree, you can stay connected with classmates and maintain these connections long after graduation. Keep tabs on each other throughout your careers. You can send and receive messages as well as share documents and collaborate with each other.
· Leverage Alumni Networks. You can choose to be linked to your University, College and/or Program alumni networks when filling out your education information on your profile. This enables you to directly access alumni connections to enhance career opportunities. Studies prove that the best way to find a job is through networking! Start leveraging one of the strongest networks available to you – your alumni network.

UNIVERSITIES , COLLEGES AND PROGRAMS

With inDegree you can easily maintain current graduate student and alumni networks while simultaneously improving placement success!

· Customized Profiles. You decide how to tailor your communications with graduate students and organizations. You can create 3 different types of university profiles: university, college/school and individual programs. Your program profiles aggregate to the college profiles, and all college profiles aggregate to the university profile. Only universities can create student networks, ensuring there is only one legitimate university profile controlled by you.
· Increase the accuracy of graduate student and alumni data. Enjoy real-time updates on all current graduate student and alumni data as these users constantly refresh their profiles on inDegree. Because inDegree includes organizations, your graduate students will be motivated to keep their profiles current to enhance their career opportunities.
· Maintain current graduate student and alumni networks. Stay connected with your graduate students and alumni long after graduation! Create events, manage RSVP lists, send out newsletters and communicate directly with your current graduate students and alumni through the inDegree interface.
· Improve graduate student placement success. Graduate students can network with each other and are automatically linked to their degree program alumni, enabling them to directly leverage those connections to enhance career opportunities. inDegree also posts over 500,000 constantly updated and filtered jobs from across the internet specifically tailored for individuals with graduate degrees.
· Brand your University, College or Program to organizations. Leverage  your profile to highlight your program’s strengths to organizations.  Find out which organizations are recruiting your students to maximize the benefits of on-campus recruiting. Get connected with new organizations!