The Open University Business School
Alumni Newsletter
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Regional events (click on title to jump to website)

17 March Redhill You want me to stand up and present? with Jo Salter
23 March Geneva LinkedIn - what's all the fuss about?
5 April Bristol First Tuesday informal networking
12 April Manchester Time to think
12 April London Second Tuesday informal networking

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In Partnership with the Institute of Leadership & Management

The Alumni Association has teamed up with the Institute of Leadership & Management to gain further recognition for senior managers who are graduates of our Business School. The Institute of Leadership & Management is the largest qualifications body in the UK with over 90,000 learner registrations each year for professional qualifications in leadership, management, coaching and enterprise. They're also a leading professional body with over 40,000 practising managers as members.

Benefits of ILM Fellowship

Fellowship recognises your professional status, qualifications and experience, and gives you the opportunity to network with your peers from different sectors and occupations. There is also a comprehensive range of membership services to support your continuing professional development as a leader and manager. Learn more at http://www.i-l-m.com/join-ilm.aspx

Cost

The annual subscriptions are £135 per year with a discount of £10 if you pay by direct debit. For Open University alumni there is a special offer - a saving of £50 on the usual initial joining fee.
(NB prices are valid until 30 September 2011)

How to apply

For more information about ILM Fellowship and how to apply visit www.i-l-m.com/join-ilm/7491.aspx or call Hilary Hall, Director of Customer Services at ILM on 01543 266819 or email hilary.hall@i-l-m.com

Career Development from our partner Workmaze: an offer especially for Business School alumni

Career Coaching Workmaze's partner company, The Career Farm, offers career coaching both face-to-face and remotely via email and telephone. This remote service allows you to offer a more flexible career coaching service to your students, and can often provide an 'out of normal hours' service which may be useful for part-timers, distant learning students or EMBA's.

Although each student is unique, the types of issues Career Farm often coach on are:

For more information contact: coaching@thecareerfarm.com.

Career Management Videos Workmaze have created three videos to help you proactively manage your career. These videos take you through the first steps. Let us know what else you might find useful by emailing jane.barrett@workmaze.com so we can incorporate it into our future content plans.
1. Career Assessment
2. Research and Networking
3. Job Search Strategy

Alumni offers

Continuing Professional Development
Make the most of your OU Alumni status by taking advantage of a special course fee with the OU which allows you to study our short, online CPD courses at a discount of 10% off the published course fee. For more details, visit http://www.open.ac.uk/cpd/

Get your own website for £99 - ideal for small businesses and consultancies.  Add pages and features as your business expands. Details and enquiries: www.getsetup.net.

Magazine subscription offers
Take advantage of the lowest prices available on subscriptions to magazines such as The Economist, Time, National Geographic, Vogue and many others. www.alumni-subscriptions.co.uk

No charge sign up to Pay As You Use Call-handling service. Get your calls answered by your named PA in your company name and your administration sorted. No minimum or monthly fees, simply pay as you go, set up in minutes. Call 08451 30 00 30 or register on line at www.corebusinessnetwork.com and quote OUAO.

News

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QuickLinks

Your alumni association has launched a dedicated OU Business School group on Linkedin.

Linkedin is an online professional networking service, used by over 12 million professionals worldwide. It allows members to connect with each other and expand their business contacts. Through this website you are able to search and view OU Business School group members' profiles as well as their networks. You see much more than a name. All connections are controlled by you, this is an opt in only.
How to join: There is no charge to join Linkedin, or to join the OU Business School Alumni Network group on Linkedin. You are pre-approved as a member of the OUBS alumni association and can join the group immediately by clicking on the Linkedin Logo above.
You will need to use the same e-mail address with Linkedin as the one to which this e-newsletter is sent. You can easily add this address to your existing Linkedin profile.

Workmaze is a career coaching and information company which works with leading business schools worldwide, delivering career services, information products and recruitment services.

Workmaze coaches have extensive experience in both MBA and executive level recruitment and hold internationally recognised qualifications in career coaching and guidance. They are supported by a team of researchers drawn from blue-chip information management and head-hunting environments. Our subscription to Workmaze gives you free access to the following guides: MBA Recruitment in the Top 100 Global MBA Recruiting Companies (Updated monthly) and MBA Recruitment in the FTSE Euro 100 Companies (Published in May & October). In addition, you benefit from discounted rates on coaching services such as career assessment and 'getting interviews' programmes.

For full details, click here.

Update your details

If you need to change any of your contact details, email, home or work please go to the alumni website at www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni click on 'update your details'. If you have not registered your details or opted into the membership directory please do so now and keep connected to this thriving international network.