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Career resources for alumni
Keep your edge!
Why stay in touch with the Witsie community? It’s a powerful international network and set of career resources.
The University of the Witwatersrand Alumni group on LinkedIn has more than 8000 members. Connect with this incredible network, share your professional profile, gain career insights, keep in touch with people and benefit from exposure to opportunities.
You can also join these interest groups on LinkedIn:
• Wits Health Sciences Alumni
• Wits Alumni Entrepreneurs
• University of the Witwatersrand Town, Regional & Development Planning Alumni
• Wits Alumni Canada
• Wits Alumni New York
• Wits Humanities Alumni
• Wits EBE Alumni (Engineering and the Built Environment)
• Wits CLM Alumni (Commerce, Law and Management)
• Wits Science Alumni
FacebookJoin our Facebook groups
• witsalumni
• WitsYoungAlumni
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Share your news with us and update your contact details:
alumni@wits.ac.za
Wits Fitness and Wellness Centre
Alumni can use these facilities on West Campus for R270 a month. Call 0100074733.
Remember, your alumni access card gives you access to sports facilities by arrangement.
Hotels
Book a hotel using your Wits Discount and instantly save 10-55% on hotels worldwide
Events
Interested in events for young alumni? Please update your contact details on the Wits Alumni Relations database so we can invite you to events and keep you informed. Use the online form or email alumni@wits.ac.za
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Alumni Communicator
Customise the information you receive about Wits events.
WBS
To hear about Wits Business School events, contact Thembeka Hlatshwayo: thembeka.hlatshwayo@wits.ac.za
Braamfontein
Braamfontein is in the process of urban renewal and there are plenty of reasons to visit Wits’ neighbourhood.
Wits Art Museum
Not only does it contain a superb collection of African art, there’s a great variety of exhibitions on throughout the year as well as events for families.
Tshimologong precinct
Incubating digital entrepreneurs
Origins Centre
Explore the past with virtual reality; learn more about rock art; have fun with family activities; test your DNA and more
Fak’ugesi Festival
A celebration of music and gaming
Park Run
Starts and ends at the Wits Club, next to Alumni House
World of work
Your Wits degree is only the start of your lifetime of learning. Did you know that Wits alumni can access a wealth of career resources?
Job listing
Find or advertise an opportunity
Further study
Keep your skills relevant and be ready for opportunities – or create them yourself. Learn more about short, online and part-time courses at Wits. Some of them are free! Learn a language or sharpen up with executive education at Wits Business School.
Certificates
For copies of degree certificates, please contact the graduation office. For transcripts (academic records), please contact your Faculty office.
Online mentoring
The Wits Alumni Office offers all alumni free access to the Wits e-mentoring platform, where mentors and mentees are matched according to their own needs, anywhere in the world.
Professional development
Are you an early-career academic? Learn more about Wits’ professional development programme.
Wits Plus
In these videos, alumni talk about their experiences of studying part-time.
Wits Language School
Learn a new language, sharpen your business communication skills or learn to teach English at Wits Language School.
