Embark!
A First-Year Career Retreat

Retreat dates: Friday, January 19 – Sunday, January 21, 2024
Deadline to register: Monday, November 27 by 5pm

Career Education is excited to offer Embark! A First-Year Career Retreat for all interested first-year students. This free weekend-long immersive program will allow you to feel equipped with a metaphorical backpack of tools you’ll need to begin your career exploration.

Join us to connect with Career Education, discover how to identify and utilize your values and strengths through our assessments and activities, hear career stories from your Wellesley sibs, and learn about the variety of opportunities that are available to you as a Wellesley student, like funded internships, study abroad, and research. We hope that you will use Embark to begin to nurture a community of support among peers through engaging and interactive activities and conversations intended to encourage your curiosity, flexibility, persistence, risk-taking, and optimism. 

This is a great place to start your career exploration, and we'll have fun along the way! 

By participating in Embark, you will be able to...

1. Identify your existing skills and begin to build additional essential career communication skills  

   • Resumes

   • Cover letters

   • Interviewing 

2. Identify your values and strengths that may inform choices related to your career development

3. Identify and utilize resources to support your career and overall development

   • LinkedIn 

   • The Hive

   • Career Education Resources 

4. Gain exposure to career development theories and develop your own career mindset 

5. Gain exposure to life and career trajectories that reflect the diversity of the Wellesley student and alum communities