Tag: career

For my most recent activity, I decided to visit the Starr Career Development Center for a resume-writing workshop. While in high school, we were never taught one how to write a resume and cover letter, and so I had to Google templates in order to get an idea of how to structure one. If it wasn’t for a job that I was going to apply for where they asked for a resume, I don’t think that I would have started to think about writing a resume in my high school career.

Since I did not have any idea of how to properly write a resume I hesitated in going to room 2-150 to seek help in editing the resume that I had written. It is very nerve-wracking to know that your resume is in very bad shape and to have someone look at it and judge what you have so far. Nevertheless, I thought that it was now or never since if I want to apply for future jobs or internships, I need to know the basics of writing a resume. Therefore, I got the courage to go to the Starr Career Development Center to get started.

I met with a staff member named Rebecca Marrero. I was looking for some type of judgment from her telling me that I did everything wrong when writing my resume, but Ms. Marrero did not point out my errors at all. Since I told her that I never had someone teach me how to write a resume, she went over the basics of a resume format. Since it was only a 15-minute meeting, she did not go over everything in much detail but during that time span,I gained knowledge that I did not have previously. All in all, I am more confident when writing a resume than I was before. Thus, I recommend any Baruch student to go to Starr Career Development Center.

I went to a Resume workshop held by the Starr Career Development Center. At the workshop, we went through a powerpoint presentation of a few Resume basics and formating principles. The presentation encompassed of sample resume templates and examples of how to keep descriptive statements short. One of the detail from the presentation I remembered was that when you list your experience, you must demonstrate the job you executed and the purpose of your actions. The presentation highlighted that it was important to provide such details in concise statements. The presenter was very informative and assisted in short exercises on how to construct parts of the resume. At the end of the workshop, we were given a writing guide for resumes and cover letters.

Through this experience, I was able to learn methods to make my resume more professional and suitable for a job application. The reason I attended this workshop so early on was because I was considering applying for a Spring Internship. I thought that the workshop would be helpful in teaching me how to construct a well written resume so I would be confident with submitting my application. By attending the workshop, I saw how I could tighten up my current resume and alter it to reflect my transition into college. The writing guide that we were given at the end was also very helpful. It introduced me to things like the post-interview thank you letter and email, which I didn’t know were things that were done. The information provided by both the workshop and the writing guide definitely cleared up some grey areas and questions I had about some of the materials needed in the application process. I look forward to participating in other workshops and activities that the center holds in the future. I plan on taking advantage of their Mock Interview workshops as well.

For my second blog post, I chose to attend the October 5 Starr Career Workshop, which was about internships. I didn’t expect the workshop to be as crowded as it was, but I was there early and was able to get a good seat. As someone who is interested in applying, it was enlightening to learn about the requirements to be eligible for internships. I didn’t know before today that unpaid internships were illegal if you weren’t even getting academic credit (which is also very important when choosing an internship) from them. And to be considered a paid internship, you had to be paid at least 11 dollars an hour which is minimum wage. If you were given a stipend, it had to equal the same amount as 11 times the number of hours worked.

I also learned that there was such thing as zero-credit internships but to be eligible you had to have a certain amount of credits, which I don’t qualify for. We also learned how to use Starr Search to find internships that are right for us and how to upload our resumes and cover letters onto their website. The instructor also quickly went over how to create a resume, especially if you have little to no experience. He mentioned that you could include the most recent volunteer activities, or even clubs that you are participating in.

He didn’t go over everything since the focus was on internships, but did mention there was a separate workshop on how to write resumes and cover letters and there was walk in hours available for people to come in for fifteen minutes to quickly go over some questions you may have. I learned Starr Center even helped you prepare for interviews by holding mock interviews. Overall, I learned a lot from this workshop and will use this information in the future.