Are you looking for a better, more effective way to leverage your limited resources to reach out and bring Baby Boomer alumni back to campus--- and give them a service they really want and need?

Our proven-successful “turnkey” alumni Baby Boomer conference service is now available to universities nationwide. Best of all, our “private label” conference service requires little time and cost on your part.

Developed, Tested And Refined At UCLA

In 2004, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and its Los Angeles Alumni Chapter, asked HRMS/SeasonedPro to create and produce a one-day Baby Boomer conference entitled A Holistic Approach to Mid-Life Career Transition. The conference addressed the seasoned professional’s need for information, advice and inspiration on issues of future employment, career options, and work-life balance.

After a successful event in 2004, the Anderson School requested HRMS/SeasonedPro to produce a second conference. At our January 2005 event (click here to see a program sample), more than 160 attendees spent the day listening to expert speakers covering diverse topics such as how to market your maturity, dealing with age discrimination in employment, mid-life financial planning, learning how to transfer skills to a new career, self-employment, and volunteerism.

After two successful Anderson events, our unique formula of speakers, marketing, programming and event planning is going campus-wide. In January 2006, HRMS/SeasonedPro will produce an expanded two-day conference, including a one-day job fair combined with job search workshops, plus a second day of nationally recognized motivational speakers, success panels and breakout sessions. This conference will be aggressively marketed to over 60,000 UCLA Baby Boomer alumni living in the greater Los Angeles area.

Benefits of Partnering With HRMS/SeasonedPro

HRMS/SeasonedPro can now provide your university with a turnkey Baby Boomer Conference with all these benefits:

• You can provide a powerful, engaging career event that requires a minimum amount of your staff time and financial resources.
• You get the recognition and we do the work. Your school’s name is branded on all marketing material that we develop. You approve all marketing prior to distribution.
• There is little out-of-pocket cost to you. Our fees come from the attendees and corporate sponsors. You simply provide the on-campus meeting facility and distribute customized promotional materials to your alumni database.
• Enhance the experience of conference attendees by using HRMS/SeasonedPro’s network of proven-effective nationally recognized speakers, creative program design and conference production expertise. 85% of conference attendees rate our conference as “meeting” or “exceeding” their expectations.
• Generate a high level of alumni attendance through HRMS/SeasonedPro’s experience in marketing Baby Boomer career events.
• Increase your school’s brand awareness among the professional community, both locally and nationally, by broadening attendance to non-alumni professionals
• HRMS/SeasonedPro invests its own resources to market the event through strategic partnerships with career-related associations, proprietary databases, and its own professional, older worker employment portals, as well as through its e-newsletters and supporting marketing materials.
• Provide development officers with increased access to alumni not currently identified as potential donors.
• Provide executive education services that increase access to alumni not currently identified as potential students.
• Attendee information collected from the conference will be shared with all of your alumni relations and development staff to support their individual and collective mission.
• Provide an opportunity for your organization to demonstrate a leadership role in addressing one of older alumni’s most urgent and documented needs---career services.
• HRMS/SeasonedPro is a well-established management consulting firm providing services for non-profit and government agencies. Since 1993, our company has contracted with over 50 cities, county and community-based agencies providing employment and training services.

Summary

Research has consistently shown that offering career services to older alumni is one of the most appreciated services a school’s alumni office can offer. A recent Los Angeles Times article entitled Long-Term Jobless Find a Degree Just Isn’t Working stated that 20% of all long-term jobless hold a college degree, and that the number of educated jobless has more than tripled since 2000. Employers are also becoming more interested in hiring the Baby Boomer. Click here to see a recent AARP article entitled, “A Landmark Supreme Court Decision is Being Hailed as “The Emancipation Proclamation for Older Workers”

Our turnkey Baby Boomer career conference management service can support your alumni relations, development, and career centers’ mission to provide a much-needed service to this well-educated, professional alumni segment: a connection to high-quality information on issues of future employment, business options, and work-life balance, all specifically tailored to the Baby Boomer age group.

HRMS/SeasonedPro looks forward to the opportunity to discuss in more detail how we can support your alumni relations, development, and career center objectives. For more information, please contact Blaze Callahan at 310.855.1064 x104, or email him at b.callahan@hrms.net.