Ken Siri is a Support Broker working in New York City. As a support broker, he works with people with disabilities in New York City to manage their state-funded budgets. Although in the name, support brokers do not actually broker anything. Instead, they assist with the financial allocation of resources to support disabled people in …
For my capstone, I wanted to create something that would be both a representation of my work throughout the semester and a guide for further career pursuits. I finally decided that I would modify some advice given to me by Ruthann Coyote at the Gordon Career Center and create a centralized spreadsheet of my career …
Today, December 13, was my last meeting of the semester with my campus employment supervisor Maggie Long. After completing my shift, we discussed my work over the semester, my interests, and future opportunities. Although I only worked two hours per week this semester, I engaged in a relatively diverse set of work from vacuuming the …
On December 12, 2022, I met with Ruthann Coyote for my last Gordon Career Center Advisor meeting of the semester. We discussed a variety of topics that I had outlined prior to our meeting to focus my time over winter break. I shared that I would like to spend a portion of the break searching …
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 …
