Career Workshop

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.