Today I went to Career Center Workshop in room 2-190 NVC. The workshop that I attended was Internship Seminar and I learned a lot about Internships of how to apply to them and its benefits. The instructor taught us about different internships such as a paid internship, unpaid internship, credit internship etc. I learned that currently New York City’s minimum wage is $11 per hour and after December 31, it will be $13 dollars which are very exciting. Also, if any internship provides less than minimum wage then it’s not considered paid internship and one can reach to Department of Labor for that. On the other hand, for unpaid internships, senior status students can receive college credit guide. It is also very important to update “my account” on star careers at least once per semester. In Baruch College students can go to OCR internship which is very competitive because the students have to look at a tutorial and take the quiz, once the student passes the quiz they can apply for it, however, there are many requirements for it such as high grades etc. The instructor also opened the star career site and showed us the process of applying for the internship through OCR. OCR is for an interview on campus rather than to their site. Most important things for applying for an internship is resume and cover letter and to polish it SCDC can help to review it. Some outside opportunities are indeep.com, idealist.org, jobs.gov, linkup, and creative interns.com. For most employers cover letters are highly recommended. Some tips for resume was to put any experience on the resume even if its connected to the job because employers want to see those. Also, font size shouldn’t be less than 10. Few tip he told us for the interview was to ask questions, don’t say too little or too much” and research the company before going for the interview. The instructor also told us that we should keep in touch with the employer after the internship because for later jobs and internships they can write recommendation letters for us.
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