Alumni career services
Offer alumni the career help your students get, for life
NextChapter is a career platform that your office runs under its own name: your services listed, a caseload showing who needs a conversation, mentors from your alumni and job-search circles, so a small team can reach every alum.
The workspace is free for up to 50 active members. Career services, alumni relations and development share it.
What career services sees
People who need a conversation are listed at the top, with the next step beside each name. Riverside College is invented.
Career services caseload Sample data
People who need a conversation are listed at the top, with the next step beside each name, so the hour goes to them. The people and numbers are invented.
More of the workspace
Admin overview Sample data
It shows the limit, the staff and the services you list, so an administrator sees what the workspace holds before anything else. Small groups are held back so no one can be picked out. The people and numbers are invented.
Alumni relations Sample data
Layoff alerts are matched to where your alumni live, so you can reach out early, and alumni jobs are shown to your alumni. The people and numbers are invented.
How it works
List your services
Add the appointments, workshops and programs your office offers, so alumni see them next to the job search tools.
Work the caseload
Alumni who need a conversation rise to the top with the next step beside each name, so the hour goes to them.
Add mentors and circles
Alumni mentors take calls, and your office runs job-search circles for groups, such as mid-career alumni after a layoff.
How to claim your page
Your institution’s page is at https://launchyournextchapter.com/prepared/ followed by its name in lowercase with hyphens between the words, for example https://launchyournextchapter.com/prepared/riverside-college. Open it and fill in your name, title and work email.
Use a work email at your institution’s domain. Personal email addresses are not accepted.
Plans
The free workspace is listed at the top. The Institution plan adds what an administrator needs at scale. Talk to us about it.
Free workspace
FreeColleges and universities, after a verified claim
- Created when someone at your institution claims your page with a work email at your email domain
- Up to 50 active members
- Your own page on NextChapter
- Your own services listed for your members
- Basic counts of members and activity
Institution plan
Colleges and universities that need reporting at scale
- Everything in the free workspace
- Reporting and exports
- Exchange of records with your CRM
- More active members
- Staff roles
- An audit log of staff activity
- NextChapter coaching and courses offered to your members
Add-ons: AI training for career services.
Every plan for every portal is on the plans page.
Questions
Do alumni and students pay?
Members use the core job search tools without paying. Membership and coaching are optional for them.
Can we offer coaching and courses?
The Institution plan adds NextChapter coaching and courses offered to your members, and AI training for career services is available as an add-on. Talk to us to set it up.
Who can claim our institution’s page?
A staff member with a work email at your institution’s domain. We send a one-time link to that address to confirm it. If we do not know your domain yet, our team follows up on the claim.
What do we see about individual alumni?
Reporting is in counts, and small groups are held back so no one can be picked out of a group. Job news reaches your office from alumni who choose to share it, and from no one else.
Book a call, or tell us what you need
Book a call, claim your page at the address above, or send us a message.
Talk to us
NextChapter is built by Justin Kulla, a founder who has spent nearly 20 years building and investing in education and workforce technology.