According to this survey, the Brief Strengths Test, my top strength is perspective or wisdom; my worst scores were in hope and religiousness or spirituality. In addition to wisdom, humor, fairness, and open-mindedness were where I scored the highest. I am struggling with making sense of these amorphous data points but here are my preliminary …
I completed the PERMA™ (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment) workplace questionnaire to evaluate my current experience at Wesleyan. For this part of my life, I consider the campus at large to be my “workplace”. The questionnaire was originally developed to measure the five pillars liste above, along with negative emotion and health. As this …
For my last skills module, I decided to learn more about the elevator pitch. I made this choice for a few reasons, First, because during the next few months I am looking for summer internships and mentorship and anticipate needing this skill. The instructor identified the benefits to developing and utilizing an elevator pitch. First, …
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This course module is unique. Although I have seen many courses on leadership, this is the first that I have seen on being an effective team member, so I decided to take this course. The course covered strategies, qualities, and tools for becoming a good team member. I also enjoyed continuing to take these similar, …
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Today I spoke with Olive Wexler ‘20, a publishing scout with Barbara Tolley and Associates based in New York City. While at Wesleyan, she double-majored in English and theatre before moving to New York to pursue a job in publishing. On-campus, Olive also took many French courses but avoided triple-majoring/minoring due to the General Education …
I met with Ruthann Coyote on September 30, 2022, to discuss general career questions and more specific questions relating to an application to the Wesleyan Investments Office internship program. During this time, I reviewed my resume with Ms. Coyote and she gave me constructive advice on formatting, organization, and content. I learned how to organize …
BlackRock is a large Investment management company based in New York City. This event was focused primarily on their product Aladdin which is an investment platform connecting data, people, and tools in the pursuit of managing investment portfolios. The platform fuses risk analytics with investments tools to inform decisions. The platform is unparalleled and widely …
This is the second LinkedIn Learning course that I’ve taken and was on the topic of unconscious biases. The instructor presented an overview of unconscious bias and tools to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias. There are more than 180 unconscious biases, and, although they are unconscious, we can interrupt our biases and heuristics to …
This LinkedIn course was a brief yet comprehensive introduction to career planning. It very helpfully broke down the process into digestible steps. First, the instructor had us write a list of values/adjectives that we feel would be important in a career or job. I wrote down: valued, impactful, creative, connected, growth, empathy, and balanced as …
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