LC 14

this may be a little late, but better than never. the workshop wasnt that much exciting because my economic teacher back in high school already taught most of it. However, one point that she mentioned in high school is that, to not follow the standard way of resume writing, but to make it stand out in its unique way, but not being fancy with design or colors. the workshop helped in clarifying the right way to approach the hiring managers in our resume. overall, the workshop was a great review and helpful in preparing my next resume.

The workshop that I attended focused primiarily on resume writing. I thought it was very helpful. I have written a number of resumes for different afterschool jobs that I applied for. Of course, they were not on the same scale or matched the same significance as those needed for full-time jobs, but basically i’m saying that I had an idea of how to write a resume. When I near graduation, I will definetly attend another one of these.

Mostly everything I learned in the Career workshop I learned already. I learned it throughout high school and I even knew how to write a resume. Apply for a job may not be easy but you need the confidence inorder for you to succeed. The career workshop was helpful for those that needed it. Also I hated how there were many distruptions such as corny jokes from other students in the workshop. They honestly weren’t funny and they were annoying me a lot! =P Just adding my point

The Bitter Sea Workshop: I barely remember what I heard what anyone talked about during this workshop. All I remember is to keep an open mind, embrace yourself, and learn from others because you never know what you may learn. Charles Li lived a very interesting and difficult life but he’s one of the few who wrote about their experiences. It makes me wonder about how many others have to go through all that just to live happily ever after.

STARR Workshop: I couldn’t really hear much because of the other students that were making unnecessary jokes. But what I did hear was useful even though I’ve heard most of what they told us. I’ll certainly use the services provided to us in the future.

I did know much of the information presented during this workshop but I still found it helpful.  It actually made me nervous and opened my eyes to starting working on my resume whether I get an internship soon or not. I will most likely be taking advantage of STARR’s services.  Interviews make me nervous so I definitely need some practice runs.  I will absolutely, most definitely will be going to STARR for an internship by my sophomore year.

Learning from the career workshop was pretty helpful, I learned tips that are applicable to the interview process.  Although I knew some of the information already, it is always helpful to hear from different people, because they have different things to say.  I did learn a lot about cover letters and thank you notes, something I hadn’t explored in the past but something I will definitely keep in mind for the future.

Whenever I’m online, I usually read a few articles about trending things. Many times I’d find myself reading about careers and resumes. This workshop compiled a lot of what I read and presented it much more clearly to me. I’m definitely going to be using what I learnt (for once in my life). One thing that caught my attention was that resumes had to be one page long. On an article that I read last week (http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-110835-6816-1-7-ways-your-resume-dates-you?ywaad=ad0035&nc), it said unless you’re a newcomer then you shouldn’t stress out about making your resume one page long. But seeing that we are newcomers I guess it doesn’t really apply to us and one page is where I’m probably going to be at…If I can find enough stuff to fill a page…

The workshop was pretty helpful. I learned a decent amount about resumes and interviews, even though they sped through everything quite quickly. The day after, I went to get my resume fixed up, since I realized there was a lot wrong with it. The girl that helped me with my resume made a lot of corrections on it, which I was very happy about. I pretty much have to redo the whole thing, which I don’t mind, but it adds to the workload that I already have. Anyways, I’m glad there are so many services Baruch provides for ignorant college students like us.

The day we went to get information about careers, interviews, and advice, i thought it was very informative. However, a lot of the other blocks were being really rude and immature and it made me really annoyed. I couldnt pay that much attention to the information but i believe i understood most of it. The other students made many pointless jokes and it made me feel like i did not want to be there. The actual information was good though. I thought it was nice when they told us what to do for our resume’s and cover letters. I liked the advice for interviews and the sample resume’s were a bonus.

I actually found this workshop extremely useful. I feel like it gave everyone a better understanding of what needs to be done to get a job. The slide show was very informative, and just when I was trying to figure out how we were supposed to remember all the useful information being thrown at us, we received the sample resumes and other stuff on paper. I’m definitely going to save those papers for the future. The STARR center seems pretty legit. I learned a lot from the workshop and see myself going in and asking for help if I need it at some point in the future.