WLI This Semester
WLI's September 29 meeting paired professional headshots with a workshop on this important job-search document.
What is a résumé?
This civil rights icon refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Cornell students commonly use this online platform to access course assignments, grades, announcements, and materials.
What is Canvas?
This short, usually 30–60-second introduction summarizes who you are, what you do, and your professional interests.
What is an elevator pitch?
A leader who can understand and consider another person's feelings is demonstrating this skill.
What is empathy?
During the Headshots and Résumé Workshop, members also received guidance on improving their profile on this professional networking platform.
What is LinkedIn?
In 2021, she became the first woman to serve as Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This Cornell resource helps students improve skills like studying, time management, learning strategies, and academic success.
What is the Learning Strategies Center (LSC)?
Before negotiating a job offer, researching the typical pay for similar positions helps you determine this.
What is the market salary range?
Assigning responsibility and authority for a task to another team member is known as this.
What is delegation?
The December 8 final G-Body meeting is called "Destress with WLI" and features these four-legged visitors.
What are puppies/dogs?
This Pakistani education activist became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate at age 17.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Students looking for help with résumés, internships, interviews, and career exploration can turn to this type of Cornell office.
What is Cornell Career Services?
Many employers use this type of software to scan résumés for keywords and qualifications before a recruiter reviews them.
What is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
A leader who clearly states her ideas while also listening carefully to others is demonstrating strong this.
What is communication/active listening?
Connection, confidence, growth, and this fourth principle were introduced as WLI’s four values to carry into the semester.
What is initiative?
Before becoming famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, this woman escaped slavery herself.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Cornell Health service provides counseling and mental-health support to students.
What is CAPS?
Asking for opportunities, promotions, compensation, or recognition when you believe you deserve them is an example of this professional skill.
What is self-advocacy?
Feeling that you don't deserve your achievements and worrying that others will discover you're not as capable as they think is known by this term.
What is imposter syndrome?
At WLI’s first G-Body meeting, members were asked to introduce themselves and name one example of this during the icebreaker.
What is a trait that makes a strong female leader?
Appointed in 1981, she became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Your WLI résumé meeting is specifically planned to introduce members to this Canvas-based Cornell career resource.
What is the Career Toolkit / Canvas Career Toolkit?
In negotiation, this four-letter acronym means your best alternative to a negotiated agreement—essentially, what you will do if you cannot reach a deal.
What is BATNA?
The ability to recover, adapt, and continue moving forward after rejection, failure, or another setback is called this.
What is resilience?