First-Year Seminar 2017 – DFA

Tag: Career

Career

The Starr Career Development Center offers a wide array of options to point you toward the career that is best for you, including the extensive Focus-2 Assessment, which gauges your interests, personality, values, and leisure habits to determine what careers fit your current lifestyle. The results show you just about every career under the sun, with the average annual salary and majors at Baruch that remotely correspond with the aforementioned career.

 

After I took the first portion of the test, I was told that I am a more artistic thinker (something that I was already very aware of, and I was shown jobs that matched)

You are then given the option to click on a career that interests you, and see what is required of a person in that field, such as degree, and even temperament.

While I was given scientific options, I prefer the more artistic side of life, and this assessment actually showed me options in the arts that I didn’t even know existed, such as “Art Director”. Which is any person who the designs the atmosphere for a piece of visual art, including television and movies.

I was quite pleased to see that one of the careers that I matched for was screenwriter, since that is one of the things that I want to do, along with director, actor, author and other things, but this assessment opened my eyes to possibilities I didn’t even know were there.

The Mentorship Program

The mentorship program, hosted by NABA, pairs up students and professionals based on the students intended major. This program is a great opportunity for Baruch students to become more affiliated and involved with their field of interest. The meeting I attended today was really about the correct way to treat and contact your mentor. In other words, a way to build a long lasting relationship with your mentor. Furthermore, we went into the specifics of how we should contact our mentors. For example, through emails, phone calls, and face to face meetings, which would be the least frequent out of the three. Also, we were told that our meetings with the mentor, we needed to come up with short term goals, that we wanted to accomplish before the program ended. While this program lasts about 4 months, the relationship between mentor and student should last years, or even the rest of your life. This idea was one the caught my attention because in order to reach your goal or become successful in your personal field, you need help along the way. In addition, saying in touch with your mentor long term, will allow you to ask question along your path. This is an example of networking because your mentor may be able to introduce you to he right people and those people can introduce to more people. I believe it is a significant step in the right direction being given the opportunity to learn and interact with someone that has experienced what I soon will.