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 eventsReorganizing Work Inside the Firm: Task Change After Technology Adoption with: Virginia Minni, assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Abstract: We study task reorganization after technological change using worker–task-level data from a large Latin American bank. Two sequential interventions — automation of routine transactions and a later redesign of performance evaluation — separately alter production technology and organizational design without reducing employment. Automation raises output per worker but generates only limited task reallocation: workers expand routine production rather than reallocating effort toward higher-value tasks. Task change occurs only after the firm redesigns performance evaluation, predominantly among workers with low adjustment costs, proxied by tenure. High-productivity managers accelerate reallocation mainly among low tenure workers. The results highlight how automation-induced task complementarities require deliberate organizational redesign, with gains shaped by the distribution of adjustment costs within the firm.
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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.