1. What are you hoping to learn from this experience? From my campus employment experience with Special Collections & Archives, I hope to learn more about the collections available at Wesleyan, the practicalities of collection maintenance, and more about myself as a professional. 2. How do you see this work as complementing your academic, extracurricular, …
The GCC held an event with a panel and moderator from Bloomberg, the financial data software company. Bloomberg provides a financial data analysis service to a variety of clients. They routinely improve their software to provide the most accurate and insightful information to their clients. They described themselves as having the following key facets: data, …
This week I attended the Wesleyan Investment Office information session for their Summer 2023 Internship opportunity. This caught my attention while looking through Handshake because I’m interested in how the endowment is managed, maintained, and grown. Wesleyan deals in many different types of assets, and all members within the department deal with all asset classes. …
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During this period I want to challenge myself to explore a variety of career opportunities, enhance and expand upon my skills, and become more comfortable with applying to jobs and other career opportunities. I’m committed to expanding my practical skills (i.e. Excel) so that I will be less limited in the types of opportunities that …
How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester? Questions to consider (you don’t need to answer them all!): Quantitative Can you give an example of a time when you had to make inferences and judgments based on quantitative data? What assumptions did you make? How confident were you in your analyses? Can you …
How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester? Questions to consider (you don’t need to answer them all!): Socio-cultural self-awareness Can you give an example of a time you faced an unfamiliar social or cultural situation? How did you navigate it? Can you give an example of how a social or cultural assumption you held affected your decision …
How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester? Questions to consider (you don’t need to answer them all!): Written Do you have a piece of writing, presented in any context, for which you are particularly proud? How would you compare your writing skills relative to your classmates? What kind of feedback have you …
How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester? Questions to consider (you don’t need to answer them all!): Leadership Can you give me an example of a time when a decision you made had an effect on a group? Tell me about a time when you were surprised that an action you took, or a decision …
How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester? Questions to consider (you don’t need to answer them all!): Domain-specific (eg, the arts, the sciences) Can you give an example of a time when you had to solve a problem that required that you apply something you learned while in college? Was this application based on …
How have you developed or demonstrated this competency this semester? Questions to consider (you don’t need to answer them all!): Sourcing information Give an example of a time you used digital tools to locate information you needed to complete an assignment. How did you determine your research question? How did you evaluate the sources you chose? How did …
