After graduation, students will continue to be supported throughout their careers by the national-award-winning Alumni Personal and Career Development Center.Įarly and intentional engagement: that’s the philosophy of the OPCD – and Wake Forest as a whole. Students engage with employers through hundreds of experiences, including industry-specific Career Treks, career fairs, “boot camps,” and diversity recruiting events. The OPCD developed Ready7, a step-by-step process that gives students a clear set of accomplishable actions to be prepared, confident, and ready for career and life. Additionally, we’re one of very few top national universities to offer five college-to-career courses for credit. Wake Forest University’s Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) equips students with the tools and confidence to navigate the often daunting path from college to career.įor nine consecutive years, at least 96% of students in each graduating class were employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation. We’ll help you find a context in which you may do your best work. Most of us need a job, and Wake Forest will help you achieve that – but also much more: We look forward to having a conversation with you soon. To tell you more about how Wake Forest creates contexts in which classroom concepts meet real-world experience, we hope you will visit our campus community (link in profile). We hope that, one day soon, we might see you around campus. Our “Call to Conversation” is a time to put away our devices and engage in face-to-face interaction.Ī chance to explore differences and build connections. In fact, we regularly gather our students in “Calls to Conversation,” congregating small groups around dinner tables in faculty’s and administrators’ homes to talk and listen, to discuss serious topics in a structured, moderated conversation. (We’re a liberal-arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an 11:1 student-faculty ratio, 45 majors and 60 minors, and a 98% job and graduate-school placement rate.) Wake Forest University faculty and staff work here for the chance to engage in meaningful interactions with Wake Forest students.
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