Career Planning and Resources

Butterfield Colleges, Unit A, 25 Lawn Avenue

The Career Resource Center (CRC) provides information and advising on a variety of issues from summer employment and time away to graduate school, professional schools, fellowships, and career options. Since students often struggle with the relationship between academic choice and career, counselors at the center are available to students on these and other issues.

The Career Resource Center offers a variety of resources that students are urged to use throughout their undergraduate careers as their own interests and needs dictate. An extensive library of career materials is available for student use. Also, a Career Resource newsletter is published throughout the academic year. These newsletters announce the various programs of the center, fellowship and scholarship information, as well as other career employment and advanced-study information.

Whether you are a first-year student, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student, focused or clueless, workshops and programs sponsored by the Career Resource Center are a great way to help you make better informed decisions regarding internships, jobs, graduate or professional school. Attendance at our various programs, workshops, and counseling sessions exceeded 4,000 last year. If you have questions about any of the programs and services we offer, please feel free to call ext. 2180 or stop by.

Office Hours

Mon, Thurs, Fri 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 
Tues. 9 a.m.–8 p.m. 
Wed. 12 noon –8 p.m.*
Sat. 11 a.m.–2 p.m.*

Quick Questions

(Counselors and/or peer career advisors available to answer questions; no appointment is necessary):

Mon, Thurs, Fri 10 a.m.–12 p.m., 2 p.m.–4 p.m.
Tues. 10 a.m.–12 p.m., 2 p.m.–4 p.m., 5 p.m.– 8 p.m.
Wed. 2 p.m.–4 p.m., 5 p.m.–8 p.m.*
Sat. 11 a.m.–2 p.m.*

* Evening and Saturday hours are held only when classes are in session.

The following is a sample of the programs offered by the Career Resource Center:

• First Step (career exploration workshop)
• Career Outlook (winter internship program)
• Alumni panels and employer information sessions
• Mock interviews
• Résumé and cover-letter-writing workshops
• Interviewing skills workshop
• Networking/job-hunting workshop
• Senior meetings
• Wesleyan-Dana information sessions
• Internship workshops
• Recruiting meetings
• Teaching job fair
• Science/tech.job fair
• Health and Human Services job fair

We add programs throughout the year, so watch for our banners in the Campus Center, read our newsletter, and register for our e-mail announcements. E-mail is the best way for you to stay informed.

The Career Resource Center also offers individual counseling appointments and has a very informative Web site (www.wesleyan.edu/crc) and a great library full of informative material. Additionally, some counselors and staff members are dedicated to serving certain special interests: