With exceptionally high numbers of alumni leading businesses, organizations, churches, medical practices, and law firms, Wabash alumni have a track record of success after graduation. The Schroeder Career Center helps to integrate a Wabash student’s education and his career plans through career counseling, assessment of job search skills, assistance with resume development, scheduling of on-campus interviews with top companies, access to job fairs, a library of career-related materials, and a network of hundreds of Wabash alumni who act as employment contacts. There same services also continue to be available to all alumni.

Counseling/Advising

• Choice of major
• Choice of career
• Assessment instruments - currently provide Strong Interest Inventory and MBTI
• Graduate and professional school

Job Search

• Job search techniques and advice; e.g., networking, job search correspondence (resumes/cover letters), interviewing, world of work, etc.
• E-recruiting/experience.com online
• On-campus interviews
• Alumni Career Network Contacts
• Job Track and other Web sites
• Advice on graduate and professional school
• Manners Dinners
• Job fairs on and off campus

Internships
Whatever your plans after graduation, an internship can be an important part of the preparation for your future career. At Wabash College, a student is encouraged to participate in an internship. An internship is a short-term (usually summer) monitored work or service experience intended to integrate the student’s classroom and laboratory experiences with those in the professional workplace. Because it is intrinsically educational, an internship should provide the student with learning goals, a supervisor/mentor, and a means of reflection and evaluation. Both the employer/organization and the student benefit from an internship experience.

The Schroeder Career Center staff serves as a resource to help a student prepare for and access internship opportunities. The SCC offers workshops and individual appointments as a means to assist students in preparing for an internship. The SCC also offers a variety of media materials in the Resource Room that can assist a student in his preparation steps or internship search process. Wabash students are also able to access WabashWorks!, a recruiting management system that lists internship and full-time opportunities. In addition, the staff can also assist a student in networking with alumni in a particular field of interest. For more information about internships and the services offered at the Schroeder Career Center.

Programming

• Special programs include: Work Chicago, Indy Connection, New York Program, Wabash Internship Fair, College Talent Recruitment Day, and Teacher Candidate Interview Day.
• Programming ranges from outside speakers, to manners dinners, to mock interviewing. Programming which occurs every semester includes job search, resume/cover letter, interviewing, e-recruiting orientation, and internship information.For over 160 years young men have found the answers to these and other questions at Wabash College. We have successfully prepared young men for the challenges that lie beyond life as a college student. The thousands of doctors, lawyers, teachers, and corporate executives who used Wabash as a launching pad for successful careers have found that they not only met, but exceeded their expectations at Wabash College and beyond.