Last week I attended a workshop at the Baruch Career Center titled, Let’s Get Starrted: Career Building Blocks for First- and Second-Year Students: Week Four.
After unfortunately arriving about five minutes late to this workshop, I was relieved to find out that the they had not in fact gone in-depth yet and that the instructor was still going over the introductory portion of the workshop, consisting mainly of questions about our general knowledge of Baruch’s student resources. Prior to the workshop I was not too keen on these resources so I wasn’t able to add any input however I was comforted by the fact that most of the other students in the group also did not express much knowledge of Baruch’s resources. Luckily for us the first major component of this workshop was our instructor telling us about Baruch’s many different student resources that could help us build sustainable careers such as SACC, or the Career Development Center, where we can get our résumés checked and gain valuable information through other workshops and events. After having us fill out a handout that assessed our knowledge of Baruch resources, the instructor also emphasized to us that even our professors are a valuable resource for career building information. After learning about that we then went over how important it is to keep a ‘clean’ social media profile because today the majority of companies in the U.S. do background checks on potential employees consisting mainly of their social media profiles. Finally, they then gave us a handout with a few various templates of a good LinkedIn profile and told us how there will be events in the future that will be focused on LinkedIn and how we can build better, more presentable profiles.