You're Not Just Hiring You're Investing in Impact

“BDN helped us connect with candidates we couldn’t find anywhere else.It’s our go-to source now.”

— HR Partner, University Member

Trusted Across Sectors

Our multidisciplinary teams design, deliver, and evaluate programs that help organizations improve outcomes, strengthen teams, and build sustainable pathways to opportunity.

Universities & Colleges

Fill faculty, postdoc, and leader-ship roles. BDN helps you strengthen your pipeline and reduce hiring gaps.

Corporations

Connect with high-performing graduates and experienced scholars who bring strategy, insight, and innovation.

Government Agencies

Whether you need policy minds, analysts, researchers, or outreach experts BDN delivers credible candidates.

Nonprofits & NGOs

Access mission-aligned profess-ionals ready to lead in program design, education, and advocacy.

From Posting to Pipeline inUnder 24 Hours

Top universities, corporations, and public agencies use BDN Connect to solve retentionchallenges at the source by hiring mission-aligned scholars and professionalswho stay, lead, and grow with your institution.

Join

Choose your plan and activate your account.

Post

Instantly list unlimited jobsin our member-only Career Center.

Engage

Tap into our curated scholar network and directory.

Hire

Close roles faster with candi-dates who are serious andmission-aligned.

Past & Current Institutional Partners

Choose Your Access Level

Top universities, corporations, and public agencies use BDN Connect to solve retentionchallenges at the source by hiring mission-aligned scholars and professionalswho stay, lead, and grow with your institution.

Affiliate Access

For smaller departments or pilotprograms

$895/year

  • Activate Now
    1 staff login
    5 job postings/year
    50% off 1 conference pass
    1 newsletter listing/year
    Limited directory access
    12 months of access
    Upgrade option available

Unit Membership

For academic departments ordeans

$1,500/year

  • Activate Now
    1 staff login
    5 job postings/year
    50% off 1 conference pass
    1 newsletter listing/year
    Limited directory access
    12 months of access
    Upgrade option available

Collaborative Site License

For mid-sized colleges or consortia

$2,500/year

  • Activate Now
    1 staff login
    5 job postings/year
    50% off 1 conference pass
    1 newsletter listing/year
    Limited directory access
    12 months of access
    Upgrade option available

University Partner

For full colleges /multi-units

$3,850/year

  • Activate Now
    1 staff login
    5 job postings/year
    50% off 1 conference pass
    1 newsletter listing/year
    Limited directory access
    12 months of access
    Upgrade option available

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What Our Partner Say

“We’ve filled roles that had been open for 9+ months within 30 days of using BDN.”

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

“We’ve filled roles that had been open for 9+ months within 30 days of using BDN.”

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

“This is more than a platformit’s a relationship. BDN helps us think bigger.”

Director of Diversity Strategy, Global Firm

“We’ve filled roles that had been open for 9+ months within 30 days of using BDN.”

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

BDN Isn’t a Job Board It’s a Movement.

Our multidisciplinary teams design, deliver, and evaluate programs that help organizations improve outcomes, strengthen teams, and build sustainable pathways to opportunity.

Proven Pipeline Power

Over 40,000 scholars in ournational network

All Disciplines, All Levels

From bachelor’s to PhD acrosssectors

Human + AI Matching

You post, we amplify

Active Talent Curation

We’ll help you find even those who aren’t yet in the system

Know Another Institution That Should Be Here?

Get 10% off your next renewal for every partner you referwho joins BDN.

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Why Connect Exists

Adult learners are not a marginal population  they are the future of highereducation and workforce mobility.

Yet most postsecondary systems were built for traditional, uninterrupted pathways that do not reflect adult realities. The result is not a lack of talent,but a breakdown in engagement, navigation, and alignment.

Connect exists to resolve that breakdown at scale  by surrounding adultlearners with clarity, structure, and development pathways that convertintention into completion and progress into outcomes.

The Connect Difference

Connect is not a collection of services. It is a coordinated success system.

Engagement

We activate belonging, confidence, andpurpose the overlooked drivers of adultlearner persistence.

Navigation

We reduce friction across complexinstitutional systems by equipping learners with clarity and informeddecision-making.

Development

We align education with workforce pathways,leadership growth, and long-termopportunity.

This integration  delivered through a national scholar-backed network  is what differentiates Connect.

Got Questions? We've Got You.

Claim Your Talent Advantage

Depending on your membership level, 1 to 5 team members can log in to manage job postings and recruitment activities.

You can start posting jobs immediately after your account is activated.

Yes, we use extended sourcing strategies and partnerships to reach talent beyond our existing network.

Let’s Build the FutureTogether

ASCEND is a national initiative of BDN, operating in partnership with colleges, universities, and regional systems.
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