What’s happening with the CWS — week of 3/4

Monday, March 4 – Life After Wellesley | 6 pm | RSVP on MyCWS – It’s not too late to sign-up for this year’s Life After Wellesley! Join Wellesley alumnae to learn how to find an apartment, manage your finances, create a professional wardrobe, and define success on your own terms. OPEN TO ALL CLASS…

New City. New Adventures. New Cultures.

Sarina Taylor is a 2012 graduate of Wellesley College who majored in art history and East Asian studies.  Pursuing her longstanding interest in Chinese art, Sarina is currently in Taipei, Taiwan, on the Wellesley-Yenching Graduate Fellowship at the National Palace Museum.  In this position, she is the resident English translator for administration and staff and…

Attending The Fair at Wellesley? Here’s 10 Tips to Working a Career Fair

TOMORROW’S THE BIG DAY! We hope to see you at our annual career fair tomorrow, February 13, 2013 in Tishman Commons from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. The Fair will bring 60 science companies, not-for-profit/public service organizations and for-profit companies to campus to recruit Wellesley students and alumnae for jobs and internships. Curious about the…

CWS calendar week of 2/11

Below are this week’s upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Monday, February 11th – CWS Summer Grants Information Session | 12:30 pm | PNW 212 – Come and learn about the grants the Center for Work and Service manages over the summer. Grants vary per class year.…

Get a Job in Law. In this Economy. In the Federal Government. Seriously.

Despite sequester, fiscal cliffs, debt ceilings and other unnatural federal government disasters, there will always be entry-level law related federal jobs.  They just will be harder to find and get. These jobs are in federal agencies all over the U.S. The Partnership for Public Service 2009 report, Where the Jobs Are: Mission Critical Opportunities for America,…

Life After Wellesley: Karin Robinson ’12

Karin Robinson ’12 works for HubSpot as a Support Engineer in Boston. She describes herself as an avid hipster researcher, radio aficionado and yoga enthusiast. Take a look into Karin’s journey from Wellesley College student to recent graduate. When I graduated in May of 2012, my boyfriend and I stuffed his CR-V full to the…

The Bay Area Business Leadership Council & Wellesley Silicon Valley Club Hosted Afternoon Career Workshop on Marketing for Students & Alumnae during Wintersession

  Photos from Sunday, January 13, 2013 The Bay Area BLCers—led by alumnae Erna Armeson, Jenny Brandemeuhl, and Leigh Marriner and Sandy Kraft (’84), Vicky Tsai (’00) and Sylvia Kuyel (’06) from the Wellesley Silicon Valley Club—co-sponsored an interactive career event on Sunday, January 13. BLC Co-chair Barbara Creed and Club President Sandy Kraft welcomed…

CWS calendar week of 1/28

  Below are the new two weeks of upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Wednesday, January 30th – Psychology Internships Information Session | 12:30 pm | RSVP on MyCWS – Come learn about the CWS/Psychology Department Summer Internship Program. 3rd Annual Brandeis University Communications Forum |…

Furthering Your Impact on LinkedIn [Part 2]

Picking up where we left off last week, Bryn Johnson ’89 provides additional insight on how job seekers can use LinkedIn to continue building their network with these four simple tips. Take a look below: Research Companies Researching companies. This is one of my favorite ways to use this remarkable LinkedIn database. Certainly you can…