Career Planning: Internship & Goal Setting

I went to this workshop on 11/10/09 with the intent of learning about internships. Disappointingly, the orator was not present. Instead, an extremely energetic middle aged woman named Rhonda substituted and educated us on basic interviewing skills. This was the first workshop that I attended without any friends and I was not very interested in gaining interview skills. However, Rhonda made the workshop a pleasure with her humor and intelligence. Although she lectured us for the full two hours, I was actually engrossed into her lecture the whole time. Rhonda was very experienced in business according to her numerous accomplishments. She taught us about the do and don’t when being interviewed. I learned that timeliness, preparations, and a smile are essential to acquiring a job. Fascinatingly, one of the students asked Rhonda how she was so optimistic all the time. She claimed she lived as pessimist in her first 20 years of living. She taught us by pretending to be an optimist, you eventually become one. This was one of the best advices I received so far in my college life. If Rhonda taught a class in Baruch, I would definitely take it. In conclusion, I highly advise prospective and current students to meet with Rhonda in the career development center or in workshops. She really is one of the most inspirational and valuable faculties Baruch has to offer.