For the Member
Find the right person in the communities you already trust.
Tell Scout what you are trying to accomplish.
It searches across your trusted affiliations, finds relevant people, helps make the connection, and follows through.
The gap
Membership should be useful, not just official.
You probably belong to several communities: a university, a chapter, a professional body, an affinity group.
Each one has a directory that can tell you who else belongs.
What a directory cannot tell you is who among those thousands of people has done the thing you are trying to do, who is positioned to help, and who would actually reply.
That is the part that is missing.
What to ask for
What Scout can help with.
Describe the situation in plain language.
You do not need to know who you are looking for.
- Find someone who has done it before
- Get a warm introduction
- Explore a career or industry
- Find a mentor
- Hire or get hired
- Reconnect with a trusted community
Getting started
How it works.
Joining happens through a community you already belong to, and you decide what to share and when to act.
- 01Join through a community you belong to
- 02Verify your identity and affiliations
- 03Add current experience, interests, and goals
- 04Tell Scout what you need
- 05Review relevant people and paths
- 06Let Scout help broker the connection
Why it works
Shared affiliation is the difference.
Scout works inside communities you belong to, not across an open public network.
Every person it suggests already shares something real with you — a school, a chapter, a profession, a group.
That shared membership is the context that makes a reach reasonable.
It is the difference between a message from a stranger and a message from someone who was in the same place you were.
Your part in it
Your profile, your participation.
Your profile is what you contribute: your current experience, what you are interested in, and the kinds of help you may be open to offering.
You choose what to add and how far to take part.
More than one network
One member, multiple communities.
Most people belong to more than one: a university and a professional association, a chapter and an employer network, an affinity group and an alumni community.
Each affiliation you add is another set of people Scout can reasonably reach on your behalf.
- Add another affiliation
- More trusted paths become visible
- Better people to reach
Getting in
Find your community.
Scout works through organizations that are live on Trailblaze.
Start by checking whether yours is one of them.
Your networks already contain the person you need.
Meet the agent that can find them, and see what taking part actually involves.