Welcome as alumni!
When you complete your studies, you become one of our alumni (former students), and one of our most important ambassadors. You become part of a network offering valuable professional and social contacts. Keeping in touch with the School also helps you to continue your personal and professional development.
Network, career and lifelong learning
Our alumni activities aim to create value both for you as alumni and for the School. We want to remain part of your lifelong learning, and hope that you will share your knowledge and experience with future generations of students if and when opportunities arise.
Alumni relations involve contact and exchange between the School and its former students. There are numerous benefits to being an alumnus of the School and a member of our Alumni Network. These include:
- Invitations to alumni gatherings in Gothenburg, Stockholm and internationally (e.g. San Francisco and London).
- Invitations to topical lectures given by leading speakers and hosted by the School, both digitally and on site.
- Access to new research via digital publications and online resources.
- News about the School via our digital newsletter and regular posts on social media channels such as our LinkedIn page.
- Opportunity to interact with researchers.
- Opportunity to keep in touch with fellow graduates and secure new contacts at alumni gatherings and digitally via our LinkedIn page.
- Access to our Career Portal and all its job vacancies, exclusive to the School, for up to two years after graduation.
- Help in recruiting new talent or students for thesis work, internships and so on viaour Career Service.
As Master alumnus of the School, you can also join the independent Graduate School Alumni Association. More information below.
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Register with the alumni database
To enable us to keep in touch with each other and make sure you don’t miss out on invitations and messages from us, you need to register with our alumni database. Also, do not forget to update your details, for example if you get a new e-mail address.
In 2019 the School of Business, Economics and Law and the rest of the University of Gothenburg launched a new joint alumni database. Even if you have received messages from us before, for GDPR (an EU data protection law) reasons you need to go into our new database and confirm your personal details.
As part of the School’s commitment to sustainability, we are increasingly sending out information electronically. To make sure you don’t miss out on anything, it is important that you enter your e-mail address in the database. The data you submit to the database will only be used by us within the University of Gothenburg.
Being a School of Business, Economics and Law alumnus is entirely free of charge.
About the alumni database
The University of Gothenburg’s alumni database is password protected and shared across the whole university. You need to register in order to stay in contact with us.
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8 February: The green transition - learnings from building a Technology company from scratch
Lecture and interview with Peter Carlsson, CEO of Northvolt has ben postponed
We regret to inform you, that Peter Carlsson will not be able to come to Gothenburg on November 23rd so we have decided to postpone this event until early February when Peter Carlsson has advised that he will be able to come. Exact date will be announced at a later stage.
DATE: 8 February
PLACE: Handelshögskolan, Vasagatan 1, Malmstensalen
Programme:
17:00 Mingle in the lobby. Drinks and refreshments will be served.
17:45 Per Cramér, Dean of School of Business, Economics & Law, welcomes everyone.
Introduction to Handels Vänner (independent alumni association) by Carola Kylin, chairperson, and to HHGS (student association) by Sophie Nilsson, Head of Business Relations
18:00 The lecture by Peter Carlsson, CEO, Northvolt followed by dialogue and Q&A moderated by Carola Kylin.
18:45 Mingle and networking in the lobby.
This is a jointly organised event by the School, HHGS and Handels Vänner.
Alumni meeting Stockholm 2023
This year's alumni gathering in Stockholm was held on 19 October. 60 alumni attended when Marie Stenseke spoke about biodiversity, followed by a panel discussion in which representatives from Handels Vänner and SEB participated.
Want to organise your own alumni event?
Does your year-group have a major anniversary coming up? We can help you track down your old coursemates, arrange a visit to the School, offer tips on reunions and more. Contact ingmarie.karlgren@handels.gu.se
Professional coaching for alumni
Free career sessions for alumni with a professional coach from the School of Business, Economics and Law. Email us at career-service@handels.gu.se.
GU Executive Education offers a part-time Executive MBA programme over two years, bespoke courses and open programmes.
Recruit our students
Our Career Service offers employers a great way to get in contact with current students. You can advertise job vacancies free of charge and even submit proposals for thesis work. The School’s Partnership Programme provides additional opportunities in the area of employer branding.
Partnership Programme
The School’s Partnership Programme brings together private and public sector organisations in a long-term collaboration that adds value for both the partner organisation and the School. International companies and organisations are most welcome to join this programme!
Find a new job
As alumni of the School of Business, Economics and Law, you have access to our Career Portal for two years after graduating. This is where the School’s partners and other employers advertise job opportunities, generally aimed at relatively recent graduates. To gain access to the Career Portal, you need to sign up with the School’s Career Service.
You can also post vacancies to our students and newly graduates free of charge. Advertise job vacancies here.
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FAQ
Anyone who has graduated from the School or has been an international exchange student at our School is an alumnus and can register with the alumni database.
Even if you did not obtain all the credits for your degree, you are still welcome to register as an alumnus. The same goes for those who only completed part of their education at the School but still want to maintain contact.
To stay in contact with the School, you need to register with our alumni database. This applies even if you have received invitations and messages from us before, since the University of Gothenburg has a new alumni database and the EU data protection lawGDPR mandates this action from you. The alumni database is password protected.
Not receiving newsletters from us? That is because we do not have your e-mail address, so you need to update your contact details in the database.
A verification e-mail will then be sent to you. Click on the verification link to open your alumnus page in your web browser. Once there, you can fill in your contact details, select subscriptions, and enter your profession and workplace if you wish. You can also update existing details where necessary. This will ensure that we have the right information about you, and that you receive the right invitations and messages from us.