Academic & Career Center
Career Services
The courses you take as an undergraduate are essential to your personal and professional development. However, your success in interviews focused on post-graduate life will depend on the effectiveness of your planning and on intentional actions you have taken beyond the classroom as an undergraduate. When any interview process is reduced to its essence, there is only one key question you will have to answer persuasively . . . "Why you?"
Certainly employers are interested in what you know. But they are equally - if not more - interested in what you can do, and in how effectively you can communicate your career-linked expertise and insights. They want to hear you discuss settings in which you teamed cooperatively to meet a common goal, and your role in the process. Those functional skill clusters are closely related to experience gained in applied workplace settings. How can you identify and acquire those skills while still an undergraduate?
The Academic & Career Center is the place to go for help in exploring and planning your life beyond Wesleyan. Don't know what your future will hold? That's another good reason to drop in. Let our staff share their expertise and guide you to resources you can use to make important decisions with the best information available. Choice of major and career options within major, internships, summer jobs, leadership opportunities, off-campus full semester internships and study abroad are all valuable assets for career - building. Use them to design a personalized undergraduate plan that will be a direct link to your goals for the future.
The Academic & Career Center is also a key resource for creating effective resumes and cover letters - the tools that set you on the path to achieving your goals. You will meet Center staff who can help you to prepare for interviews as well.
For those who have included a graduate degree program in their immediate post-graduate plan, the Center is also a useful resource. Come in for guidance on organizing the grad school application process, finding the program that's right for you, getting testing information, establishing an application time-line, and creating application essays that enhance your chances of acceptance.
College graduates who have created and managed an intentional plan for the future, and who have taken advantage of opportunities beyond the classroom and created an experience base that reflects employer needs, are the candidates with the best chance of presenting a persuasive and competitive response when it is time to state their case and answer the question . . . "Why you?" Let the Academic & Career Center help you add a career dimension to your college experience! web site career services. |
