Choose your path to get involved as you reconnect with, learn from, inspire and serve ILRies on campus, in your city and around the world through:
- Social Events - Meet old and new friends at fun local events
- Professional Development & Networking – Build your network as you upskill with established and emerging leaders in the field; meet, advise and learn from current ILR students and recent graduates through student/alumni programs and mentoring opportunities
- Academic Exploration – Learn the latest on trending topics from ILR faculty and experts
- Service Projects – Give back with other ILRies
Contact ILRAA President, Melissa Gradie ’10, to get more involved!
Events
See more ILRAA eventsFeaturing Will Dobbie, professor of economics at Princeton University Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Multistage Systems We study how algorithms can be used to improve and understand decisions in multistage systems, where cases pass through successive stages of human review before a final decision is made. We develop a framework for evaluating humans and algorithms in such multistage systems, allowing us to compare humans and algorithms stage by stage, recover the system-wide effect of deploying an algorithm, and identify how humans add value to decision-making process. We find three main results when applying our framework to administrative data from Michigan's child protective services (CPS) system, where human screeners determine if an allegation warrants an investigation before human investigators visit the family to decide whether to open a case. First, conventional single-stage comparisons show that human screeners significantly underperform an equally selective algorithm but human investigators perform roughly as well as the algorithm. Second, these conventional single-stage comparisons significantly overstate the gains of deploying algorithms throughout the system because of a double-counting problem, where a case left unaddressed at both stages is credited to the algorithm twice even though maltreatment can be prevented only once. Third, there is meaningful heterogeneity in human performance at the investigation stage, with the highest performing investigators gathering and acting on information collected during the investigation itself that is unavailable to the algorithm.
Hugo L'Huilier, Columbia University
Matthew Notowidigdo Title Abstract:
Career Transition Initiative (CTI)
The ILRAA Board of Directors launched a Career Transition Initiative (CTI) in January 2024 to support alumni who are reentering the workforce, navigating a layoff, or pivoting in their career. To date, the CTI has offered complimentary headshots and alumni mixers in six cities and 12 skill-building webinars.
Complimentary Headshots: Look for an email announcement about where the ILRAA will host the next round of free professional photographs with Bitanga Productions.
Watch the Webinars: The CTI webinars equip alumni with practical tools and tips to navigate their career transitions. Watch them here!
- May 15, 2025 – Building a Culture of Emotional Wellbeing
- January 30, 2025 – Career Mapping with moderator Harry Catalani, Kristin Chen, and JR Keller
- November 19, 2024 – Purposeful Paths: Inside Non-Profit Leadership w/ Angela Cheng-Cimini, Anna Kawar, and Debra Stern
- September 17, 2024 – Landing the Job 404: Resume and Interview Tips for the Mid-level and Senior Professionals with Korn Ferry
- Insights on Workforce Reentry
- Job Search
- Networking
- Interviewing
- Layoffs 101 & Employment Agreements
- Thought Leadership & Personal Branding
- Navigating Workplace Conflicts
- Build Your Strengths and Find Your Flow
- Managing Mental Health at Work
Share Your Skills: Do you have skills, experiences, or resources to share with alumni in career transition? Tell us about your career-transition talents HERE! The ILRAA Board hopes to create new webinars, develop mentorship opportunities, host networking events and much more to support alumni. We hope you’ll consider sharing your time and talents!
Get Involved: The ILRAA Board encourages you to:
- Join our upcoming events!
- Connect with us on LinkedIn, and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok!
- Ask questions, share your feedback, plan events – there are endless possibilities! Reach out to the ILRAA Board at cornellilraa@gmail.com.