{"id":9580,"date":"2020-11-19T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:51:01","slug":"next-level-networking-how-bu-connects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/11\/19\/next-level-networking-how-bu-connects\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-level networking: How BU Connects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/481261357\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to take your BU network to the next level? Learn how to leverage the brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buconnects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BU Connects<\/strong><\/a> digital community to build a powerful and responsive Terrier network.<\/p>\n<p>BU Connects is a state-of-the-art platform enabling alumni, students, faculty, and staff to connect unlike ever before. Members are provided access to a suite of tools and resources that can help you build a network, find a career, and pay it forward including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Networking directory<\/strong>: Quickly identify alumni who you should know based on their industry, education, work history, or geography<\/li>\n<li><strong>Industry &amp; affinity groups<\/strong>:\u00a0Join groups based on you career or personal interests &amp; gain insights from insiders<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mentoring opportunities<\/strong>:\u00a0Find a mentor who has been in your shoes or become a mentor to help your fellow Terriers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Job board<\/strong>:\u00a0Explore job and internship opportunities seeking BU talent posted by alumni &amp; shared in Handshake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-webinars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upcoming Webinars<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-webinars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On-Demand Webinars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to leverage the brand-new BU Connects digital community to build a powerful and responsive Terrier network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":9581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,28,27,390],"tags":[740,739,100,184,513,154],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/11\/Next-level-networking-how-bu-connects-thumbnail-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Learn how to leverage the brand-new BU Connects digital community to build a powerful and responsive Terrier network.","agg_title":"Next-level networking: How BU Connects","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25211,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/25211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}