Why Do We Need to Build a Global Elites Network - Alumni Community - for Life-Time Career Improvements? by Mav

Right now, every alum did belong to an alumni association located in his/her working city. However this circle is too small to do anything helpful or significant, especially for our life-time career improvements.

My college was Tsinghua, which is the big elite university in China now of 36K enrolled students. We have more than 17K alumni in total and ~2/3 are still alive working in more than 100 countries around the world. Unfortunately, because we have too few Tsinghua alumni in every specific city, it's very hard for event organizers to launch large social meetup events, let alone to meet a lot of those who can help to improve in your future career and to hold small circle get-togethers, because most likely at one specific moment only around 5~10% alumni are available or interested in such an small event.

For example, in NYC, there's a Tsinghua association with 300+ registered members, most of whom are students stuying in such graduate schools as NYU or Columbia. Every year or so they meet once and most likely just for a dinner talk. If ~3% are in very high positions or in dream industry such as working in the financial sector of Wall Street per our sample stats, there're only around 10 alumni with whom every other alumni want to meet. But for them, what's the benefit for such a social event?

They have little or almost no any benefit to attend this kind of eating event but waste a lot of time, so over years they would like not to attend such a boring social meetup with only students. But if we can pool together more than 100 elite schools like Harvard in the United States, Oxford in UK, Tokyo in Japan, IIT in Indian and so on and so forth, then 10 in top positions of each school x 100 universities would lead to 1000 alumni in total: if even 10~30% interested in or available for one specific large-scale social meetup, then 100~300 alumni in a dream industry like Goldman Sachs would show up, so everyone attended would think it's worth their time and energy.

Also, we can negotiate on an aggregate level with F-500 companies on behalf of all alumni and let businesses sponsor our events and even hire our elites directly with a higher priority if we have a very large pool in each city. And we can even get group travel discounts from travel agencies for us to travel together like meeting in a cruise. In a word, by pooling elites together, the total social capital for every alum has increased a lot, especailly for students who wish to pursue a dream job in wished industry: by attending such a social meetup, he/she can talk to any people in almost any industry and then position him/herself much better in the job market. Meanwhile, some alum may be eligible to recruit new students directly if they're in management positions with job openings.

After the above analysis, do you still want to stay in your old fragmented small circle or transfer to a new big global elites network? Try to think, Tsinghua has more than 1000 fragmented alumni associations around the world, so it's hard for them to help each other, especially in career improvements. Our job at #fb/GlobalElites.net is to put together more than 1000 fragmented Tsinghua alumni associations located in every corner of the world and then put it in a even larger elite alumni community where there're more than 1000 elite universities from each country like Tsinghua, each of which may have more than 1000 fragmented alumni associations like Tsinghua as well spreading around the world.

All in all, if we can piece together these 1000 universities x 1000 alumni associations/university, then a 5~10 million top global elite community can make us all do big things: for instance, every month or so we can hold a big social meetup in every big city of each country, letting alumni seek dates, look for job advises and even seek direct hiring opportunities among our almuni community.