On Dec.1st,
I attended a workshop called “Job Search Strategies” hold by the Starr Career
Development Center during club hour. This workshop talked about some useful
strategies for college students to search for jobs. As a freshman, I am
definitely a beginner of this, so it is really helpful for me to attend this
workshop, even though I may not get a chance to use those strategies I learnt
from that workshop until two or more years later.
At the beginning, the
instructor showed us some common mistakes we made and gave us some suggestions
for them. One of them was that we were kind of unrealistic and her suggestion
was that we should be realistic by knowing clearly what kinds of jobs we were
looking for and interested in.
The other one was that
we were limited by ourselves. We thought that if our majors were accounting, we
could only be accountants in the future. However the instructor showed us an
example, that a company hired a philosophy major student to be its manager, because
it wanted his skills of interpreting and analysis. Therefore her suggestion was that we should
think more diversity by working something that was not just related to our
majors, and at the same time, working in other states instead of staying here
in New York City if possible.
At last, the instructor
also talked about the informational interviewing which was just asking someone
about what they did. She told us that the knowledge gained from an
informational interview could help us determine which courses and
qualifications were necessary for specific career paths, the types of job or
companies best suited for us. The most important thing she said was that
informational interviewing could aid our job search, therefore it was really necessary
for us to get to know more about informational interviewing.
Overall I think this
workshop “Job Search Strategies” is very useful for me to search for a job
after graduating from college. Therefore I am really happy that I got the
chance to attend this workshop, and I hope I can hear more workshops hold by Starr
Career Development Center in the future.
