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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 29 majors and 32 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

Amanda Smoll ’04

Amanda Smoll ’04 earned degrees in business and psychology at Wesleyan and a master’s in marriage and family therapy from Mercer University. This 26-year violinist cultivates her love for the violin by teaching students of all ages. She home-schools her children and has “a career doing something I love.”

Anh Luong holding candle during Alumnae Weekend ceremony

ANH LUONG ’13

Anh double majored in accounting and business administration. At Wesleyan, she held three internships including at Ernst & Young, Vietnam. Currently Anh is working on her Ph.D. in computer information systems and teaching a computer information systems class at New York's Baruch College City University.

SHERRY LI ’11

Since graduating from Wesleyan, Sherry has been working as an associate at NASDAQ in New York, and is now seeking her MBA at Kellogg University. “At NASDAQ I interacted with business leaders from around the world. Like them, I want to make a positive impact on the world.”

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.