Leadership Positions

The Welch Experience offers many students leadership and research positions. These hands-on opportunities provide real experience across a wide array of disciplines. You’ll be ready to share examples and stories of challenges and success in your interviews, and develop necessary skills.

Corporate Structure

The Jack Welch College of Business & Technology corporate structure is intended to provide financial support and growth opportunities to students who demonstrate an interest in the field of business and demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional development. In turn, the student will gain hands-on experience, while having a direct, positive impact on the University and the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology.

Students have the opportunity to gain real-world experience through projects, initiatives and events that they manage and maintain throughout the school year. These students work directly with the Executive Director of the Welch Experience and student success and various faculty members to receive support and guidance on achieving their goals.

The Human Resources Team assists in staffing events and working with all teams on meeting payroll and responsibility requirements.

The Excel Team coordinates training and testing for Excel Level I and Level II Certifications.

The Marketing Team creates marketing and promotional material for WCBT Events.

The Technology Team collaborates with the IDEA Lab, engineering, computer science and cybersecurity programs. Drone and kart races, maker fairs and 3D printer training are available.

The Accounting Team works with the University payroll office to manage student payroll and the food/beverage inventory for the student lounge, order new supplies and work with the Center for Career & Professional Development on events with the "big four” accounting firms and other accounting career events.

The Finance Team coordinates the finance & economics club, the student-managed investment club, the Finance Lab, the Fed Challenge and more.

Eligibility Requirements

  • Minimum cumulative GPA: 3.4
  • Minimum class standing: Freshman
  • Full-Time Undergraduate Student
  • Remain in good judicial standing
  • Provide evidence of leadership positions in the WCBT and beyond
  • Participation in internships, service learning or volunteer experiences
  • Demonstrate financial need

Mentors

Each freshman student interested in the Welch College of Business & Technology is given a guide—a Welch mentor. Our Welch mentors:

  • Meet their freshman mentees at the Freshman Banquet on the second night of class
  • Exchange contact information and set up a Facebook group in order to communicate
  • Take freshmen to upper-level business courses to show them what classes are like within their majors of interest
  • Take freshmen to the  Center for Career & Professional Development  so they can start the process of developing resumes, interviewing and searching for
  • internship opportunities
  • Take freshmen to Welch Experience events designed to develop knowledge, skills, abilities and a professional network in the business world

If you are a current freshman in the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology who does not currently have a Welch Mentor and would like one, email Sean Heffron, assistant dean for student success.

Pre-Fall Leaders

The Mind Your Business pre-fall program is offered each August (during the week before classes begin) to incoming first-year students. The program is designed to give students a head start in the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology and the business world. Participants will meet other business students, and network with campus and community leaders.

In addition to exploring possible majors, students learn how to build teams, take golf lessons, create a business presentation, build a resume, strengthen leadership skills, dress professionally and more to prepare them for the global business world. Pre-fall student leaders provide guidance and a model to incoming freshmen students on what it means to be successful in the WCBT.

Pre-fall student leaders are incorporated into the Welch mentor program. Those wishing to be pre-fall student leaders are required to also be Welch mentors for the entirety of the following academic school year.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee a group of eight to 11 incoming first-year students
  • Contact group members over the summer and establish rapport
  • Host evening activities with pre-fall participants
  • Attend all scheduled workshops, seminars, trips and activities during Pre-Fall Week
  • Answer student questions and provide thoughtful, professional direction
  • Monitor small groups and encourage students to speak up and participate
  • Report any behavior issues to supervisors
  • Mentor and advise students as needed
  • Represent Sacred Heart University and the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology in a professional manner
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Mandatory attendance at student leader training sessions

Eligibility Requirements

  • Minimum cumulative GPA: 3.0
  • Minimum class standing: Freshman
  • Full-Time WCBT Undergraduate Student
  • Remain in good judicial standing
  • Provide evidence of leadership positions in the WCBT and beyond
  • Participation in internships, service learning or volunteer experiences

Research Assistants

Download the Research Assistant Application