Today, I attended the HSBC Corporate Event, which talked about internships as well as other potential job opportunities for upper class men, such as juniors and seniors. They talked about how if you get accepted into the program, you start off for ten weeks working with one singular division, as you truly get a feel for the workload as well as the roles everyone plays over the course of 10 weeks. If you do good in this program, we learned you get moved up into an eighteen month program, where you go through three six month courses in certain divisions, so you become a much better more well rounded potential employee. I found this meeting very helpful to my growth as a person, as it showed me the steps needed to get into an internship. We learned that last years program was twenty students all together, from all over Manhattan. Out of the twenty selected, only one was from Baruch College, and this person was not even necessarily selected for the six month program. It is very competitive, but also very beneficial if you end up making it in. Besides this event hosted by STARR, I will continue to attend other events that lean more toward my major in order to score a internship before I leave this school. I would love to intern with a major real estate corporation, and even though I may not be able to start in the commercial or industrial field I want to end up in, I’ll eventually work my way up to there from the residential field. Starting in residential is what most potential brokers do, and while only a select few have aspirations to go into industrial, this is the way to do it. I will try to attend the STARR workshops as often as I can, and I hope to grow both as a college student and a person in general to achieve my goals in life.
Month: October 2017
JOINED THE UNICEF CLUB!
Going to the Club Carnival during orientation day, was really overwhelming. There were so many clubs to join, and the leaders there wanted to drag you to their table and try to convince you to join theirs. Still lost and scared of college, I decided I was not going to join any, and as I was leaving the carnival, I found the UNICEF Club. It immediately caught my attention, due to the fact that I always follow what the United Nations does and I am really interested in working for the United Nations in a future. Finding this club was enlightening, and I signed up with them. I later went to the first GIM, and I loved what the Club does at Baruch.
In short, they fund-raise, organize events and raise awareness of what UNICEF’s role is as a United Nations committee. Once I joined the club, I joined the Events and Fundraising committee. I immediately felt the feeling of inclusion, and found people who had similar interests as me. As soon as the first meeting started, I realized that this club is active, and there are several events that need to be organized. I was excited, and looking forward to it.
The board members of the club are really nice people, they are all seniors, which means, their board seats may be available next year, which makes me think about showing leadership and learning as much as I can from them, to see if I can hold a seat for next year. We are working. Urgently in the Halloween batch what will take place during Cl
ub Hours and is a type of celebration. Finally, I can say that this club is going to help me out to survive at Baruch because I found people with shared interests, and I also found a place to develop skills while doing what I like, for an organization I really admire.