For Club Alumni and Current Attendees: NETWORK With Other members! 
-By: Kate Wendleton

N ow, Five O’Clock Clubbers across the country are able to network with each other via our website. This benefits alumni and current job hunters alike. We have already received and entered 600 hundred responses to our invitation to join the alumni database! 

 If you have attended at least four Club sessions, you may participate. We limit the networking to those who have participated because they are more likely to know how to network, and therefore network properly with other Five O’Clock Clubbers. If you have ever attended four or more sessions, and have not yet signed up, you can fill out the form via email by clicking on this link:
  http://www.fiveoclockclub.com/exitsurvey survey

 And here’s what you will be participating in:

Alumni Database to Facilitate Networking
 Even if you are currently employed, you may benefit from participating in the Alumni Database. You may be interested to know that 40% of our attendees earn over $100,000 per year and a growing number earn in excess of $200,000. You never know when you may need the help of another Five O'Clock Clubber. Those who participate can access the Database from our website for your own needs. And you will be able to help current members to the extent you wish to help them.

 There is no risk: After signing up, you will be invited to view, make changes to, or suspend your listing at any time. The only information included will be your name, title, employer, industry, field, and method you select to be contacted. The information will be available only to clients who have been carefully screened. And you may take part yourself.

Extensive Trend Tracking
 In addition to wanting to contact for networking, members want to know what is happening in the marketplace. Knowing the unemployment rate is not enough. For example: What happens to people who leave financial services, advertising, law, or the field or industry you are in? Where do they go? How do they fare? Are people relocating when they find new jobs, or are they finding jobs close to home? If they relocate, where do they go? Are they moving to larger or smaller companies? Earning more, the same, or less?

 These and other issues will be tracked on an ongoing basis, becoming a permanent service of The Five O'Clock Club. Since our organization is national, our trend tracking and networking will also be national. (All tracking is CONFIDENTIAL and results are never associated with specific people.)

 To help yourself and others, fill out the form and be active in the Club!

 We are a small organization, but we made this investment because this is what our members have asked for. Please help to make this a success—and your career could get a boost in the process.

  Cheers and good luck with your career.
 Kate Wendleton
 President and Editor-in-Chief