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Career Development

A liberal arts education prepares you for your first job and your last. Wesleyan has a four-year plan to prepare students to make the connection between a liberal arts education and success in the workplace.

Majors

Wesleyan offers 23 majors and 30 minors, as well as eight pre-professional programs. Students also have the opportunity to self-design their own major, combining two or more interdisciplinary major programs.

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Start Your Professional Development

All Wesleyan business students complete a professional development portfolio that includes a personal SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) - a structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a project or business venture, and includes an investigation of career opportunities in a chosen field. A SWOT includes general education preparation, creation of a professional resume and traditional letter of application, a Weebly account where students place professional career documents, and a video.

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Outside The Classroom

Wesleyan’s business department sponsors lectures featuring prominent leaders in business and government, conferences, seminars, and research that promote entrepreneurship and business career opportunities for women. These activities provide students the chance to discuss significant issues and experiences with successful women from the business community. Study abroad semesters fit into the major’s curriculum as programs in Korea, Ireland, and Spain offer business courses which satisfy required courses in the business major.

Wesleyan Women In Business Careers

Tara Reigel ’19

Tara Reigel ’19 says she was able to keep up with the demands of her triple major because she is driven by her love of knowledge and possesses great time management skills. “I love accounting because I love organizing information and working with numbers. It’s like solving a puzzle and my brain works in a way that makes the process really enjoyable.”

Yuliya-Ivanovass with buildings behind her.

Yuliya Ivanova ’07

Yuliya Ivanova, Ph.D. ’07, works as a quantitative associate for the Washington, D.C., office of Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company and leading financial services consulting firm with eighteen offices across the U.S., Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.

Wesleyan Business Majors have studied at graduate schools around the world:

Vanderbilt, University of Michigan, Yale, Harvard, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Moscow State University, National Cheng Kung University, London School of Economics, the Max Planck Institute

Graduates of the business administration program at Wesleyan have gone to work for major local employers GEICO, Robins Air Force Base, Medical Center-Navicent Health, Georgia Power; national investment firms Merrill Lynch, Edward Jones, Ameriprise Financial; and global financial organizations NASDAQ and MGIMO.

VALUABLE TRANSFERABLE SKILLS YOU'LL LEARN

VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Most employers say the ability to speak clearly in a public context with confidence and clarity is more important than the undergraduate major.

WRITE EFFECTIVELY

The ability to write effectively is one of the most important factors an employer considers in their hiring process. It’s the primary basis upon which your work, your learning, and your intellect will be judged.

FINANCIAL LITERACY

The education and understanding of various financial areas such as personal finance, investing, insurance, real estate, paying for college, budgeting, retirement and tax planning.

RESEARCH

Set strategic goals and use performance measures for management and budgeting, justify expenditures, and demonstrate that research provides value to a community.

LEADERSHIP

Identify a reasonable number of priorities that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization.

Decision Making

Helps people make difficult choices when faced with an ethical dilemma where there is no clear right or wrong answer. Examines the ethics of obedience, care, and reason.