Careers, Life, and Yale

Careers, Life, and Yale is all about connections – connecting Yale alumni to each other and with current students for networking, advice, and mentoring – and developing career and life skills for navigating today's modern world.

Here's how Careers, Life, and Yale events impart wisdom and create connections: 

• Alumni-led, on-campus events and meet-ups (see the YAA events page for more)
• Alumni-led, away-from-campus events and meet-ups (again, see our events page for more)
• Yale's Cross Campus mentoring and networking community of approximately 30,000 Yalies
• One-to-one paired student-alumni mentorships on Cross Campus, accounting for thousands of Yalies, for both Yale College and the graduate and professional schools
• Thursday evening (8 p.m. ET) monthly programs held online and available to all alums and students.

These connections accomplish several goals: 

• Thoughtful career/life exploration and reflection 
• Exposure to diverse, traditional, and non-traditional career and life paths 
• Jump-starting the networking process 
• Acquiring practical life skills 
• Enhancing a sense of "One Yale" 
• Activating Yale's alumni network  
• Complementing Yale's on-campus career, personal, and wellness resources 

Led by alumni volunteers with support from many organizations around campus, Careers, Life, and Yale events offer insights into unusual and established career paths. These events go deeper than career wisdom – alumni also share insights about leadership, teamwork, life transitions, financial literacy, and greater self-awareness.

To find an event near you, go to the YAA events page and search by Careers and Networking under "Type" or use the keyword Careers, Life, and Yale.

Cross Campus is Yale’s networking, community-building, and mentoring platform. It facilitates relationships among Yalies – whether among alumni or between alumni and students – and is open to all Yale students, alums, and alumni affiliates. Cross Campus offers many ways to engage and extends our Yale community beyond campus by harnessing the power of Yale's alumni network.

On monthly Thursday nights at 8 p.m. ET, alumni volunteers, supported by Yale students and YAA staff, produce themed one-hour “episodes” that educate and entertain. All shows are virtual and available online. You can attend any one or all of these informal gatherings. Each episode features an alum or small panel of alums (or students), each is moderated by an alum or student, and each is attended by alums and students. The four areas of conversation include:

• Life and personal growth: Discussions of the types of wisdom and soft-skills that can help us navigate life after Yale.
• Career Reflections: Exploring, comparing, contrasting career & life paths that may have taken twists and turns as well as those with long tenure in one job/company.
• Lux et Veritas: Discussions of collective experience and looking forward. What are Yale alumni doing that meets the challenge of our times, that offers fresh perspectives based on an understanding of the past.
• Yale Then and Now: Co-sponsored by STAY, Students and Alumni of Yale, exploring Yale as it is today for students from all parts of the university and sharing those experiences with alumni and other students.  Featured guests will volunteer from Yale College and our Graduate Schools and Professional Schools.   

Want to suggest a topic, discussion leader, or format? Email the Careers, Life, and Yale team.

The only constant is change. Whether you are launching your career, changing direction, reinventing yourself, or re-entering the workforce, you can find resources to guide you.

Careers, Life, and Yale relies on alumni volunteers to share professional and personal wisdom with current students and with fellow alumni. 

• Reach us by email.
• Join Careers, Life, and Yale on Facebook.
• Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @CareersLifeYale and @YaleAlumni.
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