Today me i attended a starr career workshop. It was about helping people find jobs and how to find and pursue a job we want to do in life and how to connect to others and how those connects could help us in the future.
The workshop i attended was Job search techniques which was taught by sandra kubrat, one of the many people that work at starr and that could help you at walk in hours or scheduled meetings.
The workshop told us about how to take mock interviews and tests online on the starr site to see what we were compatible with and what jobs were possibly suitable and or interesting to us.
Sandra spoke about how any job experience is beneficial when applying to jobs and or speaking at interviews every job has its own experience and difficulties learning it and managing it, all the skills you learn will help you in your future jobs you just don’t know it yet.
Sandra also spoke about how connections play a massive part in getting a job. She said it was easier to get a job through family or friends connections that it is getting one through online applications. Sandra told us about how to find connections with baruch alumni and how they could help us find jobs if they reply to you. Sandra also told us about information sessions you could attend to that are offered to by large companies and how they could inspire you to apply to that job or work in that field. They could also help you in establishing connections with that said company and they might become interested in you and offer you positions as an intern later.
Overall the workshop was very informational and showed me that you have to be persistent and want to get out there and make those connections with those around me so that i could succeed in life.