On Thursday, October 22, I attended a Career Exploration workshop called Internship & Goal-Setting. At the workshop, everyone who attended got an Internship Manual that explains everything from what an internship is and the types of internships available to suggestions on how to dress for an internship interview.
The different types of internships that were discussed were paid and unpaid internships, credit internships, and Special Leadership Programs. It was mentioned that it’s very important to do well academically in school and to get involved in areas of interest to us in order to get an internship because internships are fiercely competitive.
There are many ways to get involved through student clubs and organizations on campus, Team Baruch, part-time jobs on/off-campus, or doing volunteer work.
We also discussed resume-writing. The speaker at the workshop (I don’t remember her name but she works at the Starr Career Development Center) mentioned an online resume-writing tool called Optimal Resume which is supposed to help when starting a resume. Unfortunately, if we feel we need help with writing a resume or have any questions about it, we would have to attend a Resume-Writing workshop before we can go to the SCDC. Therefore, I will not be attending one this semester since I have nearly had my fill of workshops.
One of the last important things that was mentioned was using STARR Search at the SCDC website (which you can find through the Baruch website). If you sign in with your username and password (which is supposed to have been e-mailed to us already at our baruchmail address), it will have a profile. Through this profile, we get information about what kinds of internships are available to us that would satisfy an area of interest to us.
For the most part, I think this workshop was very informative on how to obtain internships. However, it seemed a little too long and it maybe covered too many aspects of the topic. I thought it was going to be discussed in a very basic way, but it seemed to cover too many points. There’s still information I can’t even remember, which is why I think it should have been covered in a more basic manner.
Hi there,
My name is Kelly Giles, and I’m the social media strategist at Optimal Resume. Thanks for mentioning us! I wanted to let you know that you can access Optimal at any time through Baruch’s page: https://baruch.optimalresume.com/
You’ll be able to build resumes, cover letters, portfolios and websites, as well as take skills assessments and practice for interviews. All you need to do is visit the site and create an account. Then you’ll have access to all those tools 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our resume builder also has professional samples and instructions, which may can help with the writing process. You should definitely check out what the career center’s resume writing workshop, though!
You can get in touch with your career center if you have any questions, or you can feel free to contact me.
Kelly Giles