Career Development & Alumni Success Stories
Our graduates are doctors, lawyers, nurses, priests, architects, software developers, college professors, teachers, journalists, business owners, and more. They are finding success across a remarkable range of fields, and they carry with them the kind of formation that makes them stand out wherever they go.
If you’re exploring WCC alongside colleges that promise a direct path to a specific career, you may feel caught between two worlds: an education that is good and deeply enjoyable in itself, and one that seems more practical in the modern world. Our alumni are living proof that this tension is largely fabricated.
The truth is that many employers today are not simply looking for a piece of paper indicating a narrow specialty. They are gravitating toward men and women who think clearly, communicate persuasively, lead with confidence, and bring genuine creativity to every challenge. These are exactly the qualities that a rigorous liberal arts education produces, and they are woven throughout our curriculum.
This is why our graduates consistently discover that their WCC education is not a detour from career success but the very foundation for it.
Solid formation as a human person turns out to be the most practical preparation of all.
Early in the fall all the freshmen are invited to name what they sense they are being called toward.
Sophomores are given the opportunity to try their hand at leadership and more importantly, reflection. The Sophomore retreat offers students the space to reflect on their experience and refine their goals.
Juniors study the theory behind leadership; expedition behavior, judgment and decision-making, and the difference between leadership as the world defines it and leadership ordered to Christ.
Seniors work on transference. We ask them to think about how they can carry what they’ve received here into work, marriage, and mission.
Our Career Development plan helps students prepare résumé and cover letter, internships and networking, the personal vocation plan, interview preparation, and financial stewardship.
WCC asks a question “what happens to this education after graduation?”
Throughout the year, we facilitate events to help spark the imagination in our students to help answer that questions. Career Week each Fall brings the Career Fair and Mock Interview Night to campus. These events are designed to welcome employers, graduate programs, and apostolates that specifically want WCC graduates, on to campus. In the Spring, we host a Vocation Week that opens the deeper version of the same question to the whole student body: who am I called to be, and what is my mission?
Students also meet Catholic professionals and alumni in other meaningful encounters. The Office of Personal and Career Development brings students down to Denver for a networking event each fall.
St. Joseph is a fitting patron to the efforts the OPCD; a man engaged in commerce to support the Holy Family, without setting his character and faith aside to do it.
The St. Joseph Institute prepares WCC students to enter careers in business as Catholics. This fellowship is open to rising sophomores through seniors. Throughout the semester, fellows hear from accountants, founders, advisors, and executives drawn from the Wyoming Catholic College network; work through business case studies; read a great book on work in seminar with President Washut; learn how to evaluate a job offer; and close the year with a completion dinner.
Fellows who complete the year receive acknowledgment on their transcript. Applications open in the spring semester through the OPCD.
The Pathways answer the practical question “how do put my Liberal Arts Degree to use?”
If a student wants to become a nurse, a lawyer, a classical teacher, a rancher, a counselor, or a missionary: what should the summers look like, which supplemental coursework is needed and from which providers, which graduate programs admit students like this, and who should the student be talking to now?
Working with the OPCD, students have access to developed pathways that lay out a year-by-year plan, named summer options, graduate steps, and real contacts.
Pathways are advising language, not academic programs.
A curated list of job opportunities specifically seeking the unique skills and intellectual foundation of Wyoming Catholic College graduates.
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