What is Alumni Search?

Alumni search is the tool on every school's LinkedIn page, under the Alumni tab, that lets you explore graduates as a filterable dataset: where they live, where they work, what they do, and what they studied. It converts the vague advice of use your alumni network into an actual lookup. Filter your school's alumni down to the company, city, or function you are targeting and you get a named list of people with a built-in reason to accept your message, because shared schooling remains one of the most reliable openers for outreach between strangers; replying to a fellow alum feels like low-stakes good citizenship rather than fielding a pitch. Use it to find informational interview candidates, referral paths into target companies, and honest evidence of where your degree actually leads people. The filters combine, the tab works for any school you attended in any capacity, and the whole thing sits on the school page unnoticed, which makes it one of the most underused prospecting surfaces on the platform.