Q: Who has access to the Alumni Career Center?
A: Bain alumni, employees, and select senior level executives who have been invited to use the site by a Bain partner, have access to view the job postings, create job alerts and upload their resume or on-line profile on the Career Center. Also, Bain alumni, employees and non alumni who are registered as hiring companies and executive recruiters have the ability to post positions and view anonymous resumes/profiles on the system.

Q: How do I post a job?
A: Click on the "Post/Manage Jobs" tab and click the gray button on the upper right of the page that says "Post a Job". You will be taken to the page where you create your job posting. Fill out the template provided, and once you are done filling that out, click on the button at the bottom that says "Post Job". You will then be brought to the Activity Confirmation page. Click "Confirm Activity" on the bottom of the page to complete the activity of posting your job to the Career Center. Please note: Bain reserves the right to remove any postings that may not be appropriate for our alumni or employees.

Q: When does my posting go live? Is there a wait period?
A: The job posting should go live within an hour (but may take a bit longer to index into the system). If you do not see your job posted after an hour, please contact the Bain Alumni Career Center at: Careercenter@bain.com or 617-572-2706. Please note: Bain reserves the right to remove any postings that may not be appropriate for our alumni or employees.

Q: Can I edit a job I currently have up on the Career Center?
A: Yes. Click on the "Post/Manage Jobs" tab and your job name(s) should appear. Click on the name of the job you wish to edit, and you will see a summary of the job posting appear. Below the job posting there will be a gray button that says, "Edit Job Posting". Click on this button, and you will be able to edit your job posting. Please be aware that you may change things such as the verbiage or misspellings but you may not totally retype the job and make it a new position. These changes should take about an hour to go into effect.

Q: When will my job posting expire?
A: Job postings are set to expire 60 days after the posting date. However, when you are filling out the posting template, you can select your own expiration date as long as it is within 60 days of the date of posting.

Q. Is there a place to save job templates?
A: Yes. When you are posting a job, you have the option to save the job as a job template to use for future postings. You can access your saved job templates under the "Post/Manage" Jobs section.

Q: How does the resume bank work?
A: The resume bank works a little bit differently than most other job sites. You will be able to pull up a list of candidates and click on their ID number. This will bring up the candidate's resume, except for their personal contact information. If you decide that the candidate is someone you would like to speak with further, you will add him/her to your resume cart. Once added to the cart, you will be able to fill out a contact request that is sent via email; the contact request is an area where you may describe the position available, the company, the benefits, etc. Please try to make the contact request as descriptive as possible, as this will give job seekers a better idea of what the position entails and if they are qualified for the job. When the candidate receives this email, they will decide if they are interested in the position. If they are, they will release their personal contact information (name, phone number, email address, etc.) and you will get an e-mail with this information. If the candidate is not interested in the job, you will also receive an e-mail informing you of this.

Q. How do I keep track of my contact requests?
A: When you click on the Mail Center tab, you will see a section titled My Contact Requests which lists all of your contact requests along with the date of the request and the status.

Q: How do I add my company's profile?
A: If you would like to create a profile to add to your job posting or to store in the Career Center click on "My Account" and then "Company Profile". Once you have created the profile, you may link it to job postings by selecting the "Add company Profile" option when editing or creating the job basics on your postings.

Q: Can I put our logo in the job posting?
A: Not exactly; you can add your company logo to the company profile, but you may not insert the graphic into the job description field when posting a job. That field is a text only field. To add the logo, click on the "My Account" tab and then click on "Company Profile". There you will have the option of creating or editing your profile. In the upper left hand side of the screen you should see an area to upload your logo. Please be aware that the maximum logo size is 180 x 250, and they can only be jpeg or gif files.

Q: My job is about to expire and I want to renew it. How do I do that?
A: Click on the "Post/Manage Jobs" tab and the name of your job posting should appear. Underneath the name, you should see a text links that say "View/Edit/Delete"; to the right of those links there will be a text link that says "Renew". Click on that link and you will be able to renew the job posting. If the posting has already expired, you may still renew the posting if need be. Go to the "My Jobs" tab, and click on the little tab in that section that says "Expired". This will bring up any expired job postings and you may renew them by clicking on the "Repost" link.

Q: Can I temporarily stop a job posting? If I have a stopped posting on the Career Center, how do I reactivate it?
A: Yes. Click on the "Post/Manage Jobs" tab and the names of all of the jobs you have posted will appear. Click on the name of the job you want to stop. You will be brought to a page with your job details and it will show the status of the job. Under status you will see a "stop" link. Clicking on this link will remove the job from the Career Center so that job seekers will no longer have access to it. If you remove the job from the Career Center, you are able to reactivate it and add it back to the board for as long as the duration is (if the job duration was 30 days and you removed it after 5 days, you can activate it and add it back for the next 25 days until it expires).

Before stopping the job we encourage you to please take a moment to indicate if the position was filled by a Bain employee, Bain alum, or other candidate. This will dramatically help us to ensure we are providing the highest level of service to our valued employers and candidates.

Q: Why does the Career Center ask if the job has been filled by a Bain alum, Bain employee, or other?
A: It is important for Bain to know this information to ensure that we are providing the highest level of service to the various users of the site. This information will be used to make sure that employers are getting the kind of interest in their opportunities that they expect from the site and alumni and employees are finding opportunities that are in line with their career goals.

For more information, please contact careercenter@bain.com or call 617-572-2706.