AfterCollege Registration How-To

This How-To document explains how to register as an alum at AfterCollege.com, complete with (too many!) screenshots. Registering as a student is similar.

In our example, we are alumna Katee Sackhoff (CSE username starbuck, of course) registering with her email address katee@galactica.com.


1. Start at the (sort of) CSE-branded Job Resource Center. A shortcut URL is http://www.cs.washington.edu/AfterCollege. Click on Register under the Alumni heading to move to the Account Signup screen.

UW CSE Job Resource Center

2. Here is where you are filling in your most basic information.

Your email address is used as your AfterCollege login name.

If you provide a value for Personal Web Page, we will redirect requests for your web there— for example, a request for http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/starbuck/resume.html would be redirected to http://www.galactica.com/~starbuck/resume.html.

This is also the page where you provide your CSE username, your major, and specify the type of account you are signing up for— a jobseeker, and alum, or both. (Those form fields are below the fold of this first screenshot, so scroll down or click here to see a screenshot of the rest of the form.) If you don't provide your CSE username, we cannot provide email forwarding, because we will not know what your @cs.washington.edu email address was. Enter only your username (starbuck in this example), not your CSE email address (starbuck@cs.washington.edu in this example.

Submit the form by pressing the button to continue the registration process on the Alumni Profile page.

account signup account signup, continued

3. Next, you complete the Alumni Profile form with information about your degrees and, hopefully, your new job. Press the button to... well, to finish registering.

alumni profile

4. When you see this Job Opportunities page, you are done with the basic registration process. We'd love for you to enter a little more information, though, by clicking on Manage Account under the Alumni heading to move to the Update Your Information page.

job opportunities

5. You must first enter your new credentials, then press the button to move to the Katee's Account page, except it won't be Katee's— it will be yours.

update your information

6. What we want you to do next is to click on Settings to move to the Manage Your Account page.

Katee's Account

7. There is a lot you can do on this page. Our goal is for you to enter your address by clicking the Contact Info link. Doing that, of course, takes you to the Contact Info page.

contact info

8. You know the drill: enter your earthly address, confirm your email address, and press the ill-named button to move to the Profile Updated page.

9. That's all there is to registering. You can upload your resume, browse for jobs, et cetera. Please keep your registration up to date so we can keep in touch. You may now be an alum, but you'll always be family to us.

Return to UW CSE Information for Alumni.

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