For my third and final blog post I visited the Starr Career Development Center and had a meeting with Michael Kalish who was recommended to me by Erin. I went is to mostly clarify a lot of doubts I had regarding some majors, writing a resume and internship in general. As I am still undecided about what I want to major in (but know I want something in the business area), I first asked several questions regarding the what jobs and internships the various majors lead to. Michael was extremely helpful showing me several resources in the Baruch website that have detailed information about this. Furthermore I also asked some more specific questions such as the difference between economics at Weissman vs economics and Zicklin. And although some of these questions were more suited to someone at academic advisement I still got a good answers and was pointed to other resources I could use to find this information he did not know. During the session I also asked some questions about internships and how to build a resume (which I have never done before). Once again I was pointed to the Starr website and got a quick rundown of everything I need to do and how to use it. I also asked some more specific questions such as when he would recommend for students to begin internships to which Michael was very helpful too. I was shown a resource on the Baruch website that displayed how to begin building a resume and what the most important elements are when it comes to finding good internships. In addition it was also recommended to be to take the focus 2 quiz as it was mentioned that a lot of students find it helpful. Although time was short (only 30 minutes), I found this session very informative and overall amazing. Michael was very friendly and helped explain a lot of the websites and resources that I otherwise would have likely been overwhelmed by if looking through alone.
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