I have been attending many career exploration sessions at Baruch throughout the semester. Since this session was going to be hosted by an advisor of the Starr Career Development Center, I wanted to pay extra attention. However, in part, because we sat in the back and there was no microphone, I relied more on the media presentation.
I found it useful that the advisor told us how we can research career fields on vault.com and other websites. But, overall, the workshop was repetitive of what I already learned attending other events. Golden Key had a resume workshop session during club hours the previous week and their presentation covered everything. Members of the honor society were able to review our resumes as well at the end of the session. Also, I found it easier to ask them questions and I was able to learn about their experiences. As for the mandatory career exploration workshop, I had hoped that she would address our situation of being first semester freshman pertaining to how we can start finding internships. It would have been useful if she had told us to attend networking events outside of what the Starr center offers.
Recently, there was a human resources event that had an actual human resource director from Friedman LLP answer our questions and elaborate more on what we are all told. For example, in the workshop, the advisor told us to write a thank you letter, but the human resource director, Jeff, told us how to write one and when we should write one. Jeff advised us not to write one if we do not know how to write.
Basically, I was disappointed with the workshop since, by individual research online, I could find out everything that was lectured to us. It should have been more practical. It should have been a smaller setting, not four classes packed into a room that did not have enough seats, so it could have been more comprehensive in a “question and answer” type of format.
