Young Professionals Organizations
 

I'm putting this in here because it spans a variety of the other chit-chat subforums :)

If any of you have a young professionals organization in your area, I REALLY recommend joining it or at least looking into it. I just joined the Pittsburgh Young Professionals PYP 2 weeks ago or so, and went to my first event last night (a happy hour). Not only is it a great way to network, it's also a great way to meet members of the opposite sex :) They do so many different events- professional, social, philanthropic it reminds me a lot of greek life.

But seriously, if you have something like this in your city, it's really worth checking out.

There's something like this in Milwaukee, but I'm not sure what is considered a "Professional". I'm in the workforce, but I'm a secretary... I don't know that I'd call that a professional.

What is the make-up of your group? Is it all mostly doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc? Or is it wider-ranging?

Is this a national organization?

It's not a national organization.... I think a lot of cities have something similar.

Anyone can join.... you don't have to be a doctor or lawyer or anything like that. There's a lot of various businessy people. It seems like everyone's welcome.

great suggestion kddani! Young professional orgs. offer a LOT to people including *numerous* amounts of networking opportunities.... also, many of these orgs. offer a huge amount of scholarship opportunities! :)

good stuff!

Boston has a large one. i recently joined, although i haven't gone to any of their events yet. They have quite a few every month, i've noticed though.

do they have a web site? i would be interested in knowing more about them.

I should look into one... one of my friends belongs to one, I think. She went to their New Years Eve event last year, and I was going to go but opted to go to another party instead. But they had a great time.