Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. With a double major in Political Science (honors) and Middle Eastern Studies, I graduated in the grim economic recession of 2009. After receiving Wellesley’s Barbara Bush Volunteerism award to work in Ithaca on disability services for preschoolers that summer, I opted out of the disparaging…
Carol A. Curley, CFA. Carol is currently a Managing Director with Golden Seeds, an investment firm that pursues above market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them. Carol is also President of The Charian Group, LLC, as well as a mentor to the Pipeline Fellowship and TechLaunch in New Jersey. Previously,…
Talia Schatz ’08 is a career counselor at Barnard College, in the Barnard Career Development Office, in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley with a degree in Latin American Studies and a concentration in Art History. The Center for Work and Service reached out to Talia to check-in to see what she’s been up to…
After getting a BA in International Relations from Wellesley, Lauren went on to earn a JD from New York Law School. From her personal experience with career coaches, Lauren decided to pursue her interests in career coaching by attending the International Coaching Academy. Lauren now specializes in coaching women going through a career transition, guiding…
Victoria Hills ’14 with Research Manager Pritesh Karia, MPH and dermatology fellow Michelle Nguyen, MD. My least favorite thing about research has always been how easy it is to lose sight of the bigger picture. When you spend weeks running the same experiment over and over again, or whole days fidgeting with the same spreadsheet,…
If someone had asked me five or six years ago whether I would work at an international development grant-making organization in the future, I might have laughed in their face. During my time at Wellesley, I discovered that I loved the smell of books, poring over old documents, and researching Soviet-era dissident movements late into…
Going to graduate school was always “in the plan,” but after graduating from Wellesley in 2010, instead of moving on to another institution of higher learning, I went back to a place that makes many people cringe when thinking of their academic history: I went back to middle school. I spent two years teaching Social…
Below are this week’s upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Make sure you subscribe so that you receive the updates directly to your inbox! Tuesday, November 19 – Grad School Tuesdays | 12:15 pm-1:30 pm | Wang Campus Center, 2nd floor – The CWS will offer graduate…
The greatest opportunity of today’s job economy is that there is no need to wait your turn to engage your passion. The Internet has opened up the playing field for demonstrating your savvy and brilliance. When I studied at Wellesley College, Google was just emerging as an Internet leader and Facebook was merely a new…
When I tell my friends that interviewing is my favorite aspect of the job search, I am met with blank stares. Hopefully these tips that I share today will also help you enjoy the process. These pointers are by no means revolutionary, but they are the ones that I used to score a first job…