Help all students realize their career potential
- Boost student engagement
- Improve career outcomes
- Mentoring, virtual career fairs, job board, webinars, and email campaigns – all in one platform
Help your career services team punch above its weight
Alumni Mentoring
Make it easier than ever to connect with alumni mentors.
Job Board
Sync with your existing systems and pair jobs with mentors.
Interest Groups
Bring students together around career interest groups.
Global Advisors
Go beyond alumni mentors with access to 10K+ global advisors
Resource Library & Webinars
All your content in one place, plus 200+ Firsthand webinars.
Email Campaigns
Deliver the right opportunities with career goal segmenting.
Virtual Fairs
Host fairs that build stronger student-employer relationships.
Group Discussions
Connect questions with answers and offers with asks.
Integrations
Integrate with LinkedIn, SSO, calendars, job boards, and more.
Firsthand is a great career tool for students and alumni. It’s easy to use, branded for the university, and our users have been extremely satisfied.
Joep Elemans
Director Career Centre at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Engage more students by giving them a tool they’ll actually use
Give them the career help they're craving
- On-demand video meetings with inspiring working professionals
- Direct access to employers through virtual job fairs
- Webinars and group discussions with the “inside scoop” on landing the job
Connect them with opportunities that are a perfect match
- Harness the industry’s leading mentor matching algorithm
- Email the right people with powerful career goal segmenting
- Enable easy job referrals and job shadowing
- Automatically pair every job opening with relevant mentors
Support student and alumni career success
- Provide lifelong career support for alumni
- Invite alumni to be mentors
- Keep young alumni connected
- Demonstrate results with data
Choose a safe, secure, and reliable solution
- Easily manage access inside and outside your institution
- Ensure your data is safe, protected, and compliant
- Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 99.99% SLAs
Boost confidence, inclusion and employment
Boost knowledge and confidence
96%
Rate their one-on-one mentor or advisor meetings positively
Support those less connected
- Minority
- First generation
- International
- Veteran
- Non-traditional
Increase full-time employment rates
18%
Firsthand mentees are 18% more likely to graduate with a full-time job
Case Studies
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RSM's Prize Winning Alumni Mentoring Program
What propelled the Rotterdam School of Management's Firsthand platform to their CASE Circle of Excellence Award?
Giving PhD students a flash mentoring week
How did Harvard engage it's PhD students around mentoring?
Going Virtual for Uconn's Big Spring Career Fair
When COVID-19 hit, how did UConn manage to pull off a switch from in-person to virtual fair in just two weeks?
The Firsthand Promise
Your Success Is Our Success
Make it your own
Modular and branded for your institution, everyone can use the platform for their needs. Engagement and data in one place.
World-class support
We pair you with a customer success manager and offer phone, email, and chat support for all users seven days a week.
Data-backed decisions
Spend your time in areas of impact. We’ll take care of automating all those administrative tasks and crunching the numbers.