Using the occupational or employer search fields, you can identify SAIS alumni from your class who are working in investment banking and contact them to see if they would be willing to discuss their field of work. SAIS students have had a similar, PC-based system accessible to them in Career Services for the past four years and have found the database an invaluable way to network with alumni for career advice and information. Alumni have had the ability to use the system as well, but only by visiting the Career Services office. HopkinsNET creates a system that SAIS alumni around the world can access. It is hoped that, given this ease of access, alumni will update their contact and employer information regularly so that this database becomes ever more reliable and useful to the SAIS community.
Privacy is of course always a concern.
This is a secure system that can be accessed only by alumni of Johns Hopkins University using their university or alumni I.D. number. However, from initial response to the system, it appears that the great majority of SAIS alumni who have registered are very happy to have other alumni and students find them on the directory. In the near future, SAIS students will be given access to the system, and the PC-based system in Career Services will be phased out. Along with the searchable alumni directory, HopkinsNET offers a number of other features. You can catch up on news from SAIS by reading the latest issue of SAISphere online.