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Levett Career Center
Alumni

Welcome, Alumni!

The Levett Career Center welcomes the opportunity to work with alumni throughout the year. Would you like assistance with your own career-related issues? Would you like to help current students? 

We're here to help you

You may have changed direction with a graduate degree; you may be facing life-changing issues such as dissatisfaction with your current job, relocation to another geographical area, or job loss (click here for a comprehensive guide to surviving lay-offs). Whatever the reason, feel free to e-mail us at careercenter@hanover.edu. To reach out to staff directly, find our contact information here.

To help you navigate your way through your job search, here is a sampling of practical tools the Levett Career Center has to offer to help simplify the job search process:

      1. HanoverConnect: This is our job search platform, which allows alumni to search for job openings posted by employers and to post their résumés for employers to view. Visit HanoverConnect to get started. If you don't already have a username and password, please get in touch with us to set up an account.

      2. Career Fairs: Graduates of the most recent five classes are welcome to attend our career fairs, held annually in Indianapolis, IN. These exclusive fairs are co-sponsored by Hanover College and target seniors and recent graduates of liberal arts colleges in Indiana and Kentucky.

      3. Networking tips and leads: We can provide you with a list of alumni in a specific career field or geographic area to help you network.

      4. Résumé, Cover Letter, and other document guides: Résumé styles and formats can change frequently over time. Our Résumé Guide and Cover Letter Guide are updated regularly to keep alumni current on recent trends and standards. Go to Publications for links to our current issues and for recordings of recent workshops.

      5. Résumé Critiques: Once a résumé, cover letter, or LinkedIn profile is updated, our staff is available to review it and offer editing suggestions. E-mail your documents as attachments for assistance, noting the position for which you are applying in your message.

      6. Mock Interviews: After reading our Art of Interviewing Guide, it helps to practice those skills. Mock Interviews can be scheduled at the Levett Career Center or via video conferencing or telephone. This is a most helpful tool, especially if you haven't been interviewed in a while.

      7. Tools to help you find your true interests and strengths: Often, what we do and what we LIKE to do are two different things. Career Center staff provide assessments that can offer insights you might not find elsewhere.

      8. Tips for online job searches beyond the daily newspapers' classified ads: Career Center staff can help you plan an effective search strategy.

The Levett Career Center at Hanover College serves alumni at no charge.  Whether you graduated last year, 5 years ago, or 50 years ago, whether you find yourself unexpectedly out of work, or you just want to keep your résumé current with the latest format.  There is never a charge for our services - let us know what we can do for you.

We're here to help you make an impact by helping current students and fellow alumni

The COACH Mentoring Community connects Hanover alumni with students through flexible, meaningful mentoring experiences—including classroom conversations, career-focused interactions, and real-world guidance.

Building on five years of success from the original COACH Mentoring Program, the COACH Mentoring Community expands mentoring beyond traditional, long-term matches. It better reflects how students learn today and how alumni want to engage. Many opportunities are intentionally short-term, classroom-based, or focused on a specific career-related need.

Employment Recruiting: Participate in our Recruiter Visit Days and Mini-Fair Days events to recruit current students and fellow alumni to be your interns and colleagues.  We invite you to share your open positions at your workplace by posting them on our job board through HanoverConnect.

Alumni-supported Internship Funds

Unpaid and low-paid internships can provide valuable opportunities to explore careers, build skills, and develop professional relationships.  For many students, accepting an unpaid internship isn't financially possible.

Through alumni-supported internship funding, Hanover alumni and friends can help remove that barrier by providing stipends that allow students to pursue unpaid or underpaid internships and other meaningful career experiences.

Your support can help a student:

  • Gain hands-on experience in their field of interest
  • Explore a career or industry before graduation
  • Build professional skills and confidence
  • Develop relationships with employers and mentors
  • Connect classroom learning to real-world work
  • Participate in an opportunity they otherwise might have to decline

To learn more about alumni-supported internship funds, please visit the Office of Advancement.