CCE 42
Exploring Careers Winter 2025

Join ’68 Center staff for an immersive career exploration course. The course will meet as a large group, and will also split into small groups for Creative Careers (Arts, Entertainment, Media), Business, Social Impact (Law, Government, Environment, Nonprofit, Education), and STEM/Tech/Healthcare. This intensive course is the perfect fit for students (especially first years and sophomores) who are just beginning to explore career options and want to commit the time and effort to develop career exploration skills that they’ll use throughout their lives. Students will begin by identifying and reflecting on their skills, interests, values, and motivations and applying this self-knowledge to their career exploration. Then, they’ll delve into to identifying and building their network of mentors, uncovering the hidden internship and job market. Assignments will include crafting compelling stories in resumes, cover letters and interviews, and more. Highlights include How I Got My Internship panels, alumni panels on various aspects of their industries, practice interviews with alums, and a session on DEIA in the workplace. Students will travel together to New York City (for 3 days and 2 nights) to meet with alumni. Last year’s visits included: Google, the New York Times, the Met, Sotheby’s NASDAQ, Philanthropy of NY, Green Project Technologies, Pfizer, and WNYC. The course will conclude with a celebratory reflective session back on campus at Williams. For this immersive course, the group will meet for 12-15 hours/week and will have some preparation to do between sessions. If the course fee is a concern, please let us know. If we you want to participate, we don’t want to present financial barriers. While the priority deadline is October 25, applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis. Applications for all CCE Courses can be found here: https://airtable.com/appLN37taapdMaZ7V/shrzUn85G4OUycgXc