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Career Workshop

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Last Thursday my friends and I attended a resume building workshop hosted by the South Asian Student Association (SASA). This workshop was comprised of three different stations. The first was meeting with some upperclassmen to discuss the importance of your resume. The second was learning how to make and maintain a LinkedIn profile and the third was a professional headshot station. I had a copy of my resume with me so I was able to share it with a member of the club who is a senior. Lav was able to give me tips on how to make my resume appear better and how to possibly add more content to it. Some of the tips he gave me included: making your name the biggest thing on the page, getting rid of the white space, have consistency with the spacing, use aggressive verbs, and use a higher level of vocabulary. We were even given a statistic which said that the average amount of time that an employer spends looking at your resume is six seconds. The best piece of advice that I received was to make your resume look the best that you can because employers usually judge it with a glance.

The other station which I attended was the LinkedIn profile design. I do not have a profile yet but I know it is very important to have one. The leader of the station told us that LinkedIn is a branding tool that every person who wants to work in Corporate America needs. Also, when employers do a web search on their employees, LinkedIn profiles are often one of the first things that appear on search engines, so it is always beneficial to have all your accomplishments right there in front of your prospective employer. This workshop was very helpful in that I was able to get a lot of my questions about my future career answered. I would recommend everyone to attend some type of workshop like the one I attended just to get another pair of eyes to look over your professional plan.

A Visit to the MOMA

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Thomas Merton, famous Catholic writer once said, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” With this in mind, I decided to pay a visit to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Midtown Manhattan. Upon my visit, I saw many pieces of art from different time periods. One painting that stood out to me in particular was a self-portrait by Louise Bourgeoisie.  She was a French-American artist whose art centered around the theme of feminism. This portrait in particular was painted in 1990 and it included the artist and her parents. According to the artist remarks section, the right side is Bourgeoisie’s father and the left is her mother. This art means that nothing can be accomplished in if men and women do not get along. They have to get along if anyone wants some type of change. This lesson can be applied to many different aspects of life. It shows that you need to have respect for others and their beliefs. I really enjoyed this painting because it was so simple and yet the meaning behind it is so strong.

The second painting that I chose to write about was by the same artist and it was actually untitled. This painting was of a spider with a snake wrapped around one of its legs. This painting shared the same theme as the self portrait. Spiders and snakes are symbols for creator and death in literature. With a feminist view the spider symbolizes women and the snake symbolizes men. The snake is sitting on the spider’s leg which is similar to how snakes kill their prey. They curl around them and squeeze the life out of them. To feminists, this may be a very accurate description to what women go through when it comes to men. Women are constantly crippled by men and their rights are often restrained both in the past and present. This visit to the museum made me respect the women in my life and it was also the first time I ever saw feminism being depicted through art.