This How-To document explains how to register at AfterCollege.com, complete with screenshots. Please also see the Frequently Asked Questions section at the end.
This document was updated in June 2009 to reflect a near-complete redesign of the AfterCollege site.
1. Start at the (sort of)
CSE-branded UW CSE career network home page. A shortcut URL
is http://www.cs.washington.edu/AfterCollege. Click
on Sign Up on the top navigation bar.
2. Here is where you are filling in your most basic information.
Your email address is used as your AfterCollege login name.
This is also the page where you provide information about your degree
Submit the form by pressing the button.
3. Let's move to your Profile page by
selecting "Profile" from the "My Account" link in the top
navigation. There is a variety of information you can enter here, but
we are going to focus on the "Website/blog" field (under the
"Additional Information" heading) because if you have a web page to
which you want accesses to your CSE web page to be redirected, here is
where you will enter it. For example, if your username
is rosegrad and you enter
http://www.analydia.net/public/ here, as in the example,
accesses to http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rosegrad/
will be redirected
to http://www.analydia.net/public/.
4. If you want email forwarding from
your CSE account, we will need to know your CSE username. Somewhat
oddly, to enter that you will start on the "Profile" page, find the
"Education" section, locate the "Career Network(s)" subheading, and
click on the "edit" link next to the "Computer Science &
Engineering" career network entry.
Enter just your username into the "What is your UW CSE username?" field and press the button to finish.
I registered at AfterCollege, but my email and/or web forwarding isn't happening yet. Why?
Establishing both email and web forwarding requires that a human being vet the request. That means that it will typically take a day or more before the requests take effect. Patience is counseled, but if it's been more than a couple of days, please contact the alumni program administrator and ask us to check that your request is being handled properly.
My email address changed. What now?
In order to keep getting email forwarding, you currently need to recreate your AfterCollege account. Sorry.