- Identify your existing skills and begin to build additional essential career communication skills
- Resumes
- Cover letters
- Interviewing
- Identify your values and strengths that may inform choices related to your career development
- Identify and utilize resources to support your career and overall development
- The Hive
- Career Education Resources
- Gain exposure to career development theories and develop your own career mindset
- Gain exposure to life and career trajectories that reflect the diversity of the Wellesley student and alum communities
Embark! A First-Year Career Retreat
Embark!
A First-Year Career Retreat
Retreat dates: Friday, January 17 – Sunday, January 19, 2025
Deadline to register: Tuesday, November 26, by 11:59pm EST
Career Education is excited to offer Embark! A First-Year Career Retreat for all interested first-year students. This free weekend-long immersive program will equip you with a toolkit to begin your career exploration. Join us to connect with Career Education, discover how to identify and utilize your values and strengths through our assessments and activities, hear career stories from your Wellesley sibs, and learn about the variety of opportunities that are available to you as a Wellesley student, like funded internships, study abroad, and research. We hope that you will use Embark to begin to nurture a community of support among peers through engaging and interactive activities, and conversations intended to encourage your curiosity, flexibility, persistence, risk-taking, and optimism.
This is a great place to start your career exploration, and we'll have fun along the way!
By participating in Embark, you will be able to...
Susan L. Wagner ’82 Associate Director/Advisor for Career Exploration (Classes of 2026 & 2028)
I enjoyed the positive underlying messages regarding how we do not have to stress about our futures, that everyone in Career Ed is there to help us, and that things will work out.
I think this program made me feel better about what my path could be following Wellesley. Nothing is ever set in stone no matter the degree you pursue. There can be wonderful opportunities awaiting us anywhere.
My favorite aspect of Embark was the fact that it helped me sort of pull back and look at the big picture. I realized that, by being at Wellesley and having done all that I've already done, I'm already doing well, and I don't need to be so worried about constantly trying to get ahead or accomplish more and more.
My favorite aspects of the retreat were learning how to access different career resources at Wellesley, learning about the alums’ experiences, and visiting the different tables at the Experiential Learning Fair.
I will remember that there are many different ways to succeed and 'to each their own' is an important mantra to remember!
The resume and cover letter sessions taught me the most relevant skills to securing a future job and/or internship, plus I got to learn more about the wonderful opportunities Wellesley offers and how to apply/get involved, especially since most of them played a huge role in me choosing Wellesley!
Plus: Embark participants will have early access to the SHIPs program!
All Embark participants will have early access to apply for our summer 2025 SHort Internship Projects (SHIPs). SHIPs are short-term experiences that are designed by unbundling long-term internships and separating out individual projects. More information about applying to SHIPs will be provided in the spring semester. These are great opportunities for first-year students to learn new skills, make connections with alums and employers, and try out something new during the summer.
