ALUMRISE

Blog readers: I wanted to share the news that in case you aren’t already a member, we recently launched our Facebook Fan Page and our ALUMRISE Twitter presence. I’m sharing below the note I authored to thank our growing fan base, because it tells a story about where we are and where we are going that you may enjoy reading, and that I hope you take the time to react to it, by leaving us a comment.

This was published to our Fans Friday June 12, 2009 … July and our full media launch are just around the corner. These are exciting times for me personally, and for our dedicated team.

Facebook Note: June 12, Authored by Aassia Haq, CEO & President - ALUMRISE Inc. “Thank you for taking the time to join ALUMRISE’s Facebook Fan Page. We’re happy to welcome you to a space where you can learn about upcoming benefits and changes to our application and come along with us on an exciting journey. We’re excited to see our membership grow with every passing day.

When ALUMRISE first began evangelizing its vision and predictions for the workforce — we privately shared with key leaders at major Fortune 500 entities, organizations and partner firms, the thought that the workforce was on the verge of an elemental shift. The shift was to be driven by changes in demography – growing workforce populations either entering a new post-corporate, retirement lifestage, taking time off in the middle to raise children or care for aging parents, or the plethora of new workers who would believe that work and life should somehow more flexibly, fluidly fit better together. We also shared the view that organizations would radically change how they hire and find professionals to get work done. We got a lot of attention and some raised eyebrows.

Fast forward to today. Even to our prescient team and focused application developers, the reality of the vision surprises us. Work contracts are every day shifting from fixed to flexible. Organizations are hiring in a variety of ways, from a variety of professional and lifestage backgrounds, to fill an ever-changing set of business goals. They seek functional competency, flexibility, and more simple real-time access to the professional marketplace. The full time job is changing into jobs of all shapes and sizes.

And, instead of the 15 million we estimated initially for our ALUMRISER population of professionals outside the workforce in the U.S., today the actual number is closer to 30 million not formally employed, but still seeking opportunity and projects or jobs that fit.

We are here to serve each and every one of you better and look forward to sharing some big and exciting news and key application updates as we complete a full splashy media launch this summer.

Is the summer of 2009 the end of work as we know it? Or the beginning of a process that takes each of us – employer and professional - one step closer to a work life that works?

Whether you’re hiring or seeking, we hope that you find that our unique ALUMRISE profile, our fitting search that matches on a variety of important criteria in a simpler way, and our two-way marketplace connectivity, deliver on our simple vision that when jobs fit better, life just works better.

If you could be served by joining ALUMRISE (it’s free), or know someone else who could benefit from our platform or many private organizational offerings, please do share us on – email, Tweet, share our blog, or send an ALUMVITE from our marketplace itself – because every little bit helps our company. Our team (do check out our new digs in the Photo section!) comprises members of the workforce we seek to serve – experienced executives who have moved beyond traditional corporate roles; young mothers juggling work and family; midcareer flexers seeking a new balance; and professionals coming back on track after a circumstantial exit beyond their control. That is what makes us authentic and what will make us succeed in helping each and every one of you.”
- Aassia

Ps: We’d love to grab our vanity URL for Facebook, so please do help us reach 1,000 members so that we can be www.facebook.com/ALUMRISE to each of you. Invite or spread the word on your page – if each of you invites 10 friends, we’ll get there before we know it. (And yes, we already submitted our “hold” on our handle and have heard back from the Facebook team).

Thank you to those who have followed our blog, noted and commented on our vision or shared a unique perspective. We value you and will continue to blog to provoke your thoughts and comments. Perhaps you’d like to be a guest blogger too, like our friend Libby Sartain? If so, please send a note to us we’ll work to make it happen.

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