Freshman Seminar Fall 17 FRB

Resume Workshop

On Thursday, November 2nd, I attend a resume workshop at the Starr Career Development Center. One of the most important things in order to get a job is to write an resume, which includes your education, experiences, skills, and contact information. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to improve and perfect on my existing resume that I’ve written in high school. I’ve had experience in writing resumes, so I somewhat knew what to expect when entering this workshop.

There were many points to an resume that the instructor told us about.One of the most important things is writing the resume in the correct format. If your resume is not even in the correct format, the company might not even take the time to read it and throw it our immediately, just because it is considered “unprofessional.” There were certain fonts, font sizes and margins that were appropriate to be used in a resume. She also mentioned that one’s resume should not go over a page and that the experiences and events we list need to go in chronological order. In addition, she also said that depending on the field we plan on going into, the different sections of a resume can be rearranged in different order if, for example, the skills session is more important than the experiences, the skills can be listed first before your experiences and awards. We also learned how to write the bullet points needed under each experience.

Overall, this was a good informational session on learning how to write resumes and the overall format. This workshop helped me improve on my skills in resume writing. Even if my resume is not up to par, I could always go and visit to the Starr Career Development Center, and they would help me edit and revise my resume before I send it into an job or internship i want to apply for.

Attending a workshop

Resume. One of the most stressful paper but the most necessary paper in order to get a job. Starting from high school, teachers and fellow students always emphasized how important a resume and cover letter are in life. My resume will be the first impression to an employer, which will determine if I will be eligible for an interview or not. Even though I kind of learned how to write a resume in my English class in senior year of high school, I was not so sure about how to write a professional and perfect resume. Then, I received an email from the STARR career development center about the workshop about “writing winning resumes.” I immediately made a reservation on STARR website since I thought this workshop was what I needed.

The workshop was supposed to start at 12:30. However, the instructor/advisor came into the room at 12:54. I was little bit cranky at that moment because it was after I took my history midterm. Anyway, the instructor began the workshop with the powerpoint she made. She emphasized how important the format of the resume was. She told us how most resumes are in chronological order and resumes must be one page. She also pointed out that Computer Information System majors should have a more formal resume style, which was the information I needed. With various examples of different kinds of resumes, I started to get a sense of what I need and don’t need in my resume.

   ⬅︎ me after waiting 30 minutes

Through this workshop, I was not as worried as before about my resume. I realized I could always make an appointment with STARR center to revise my resume. I am planning to attend more workshops that Starr Career Development Center provides before it’s too late for me to get an internship place.

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Freshman 15 Career Workshop

I went to the Freshman 15 event held by the Starr Career Development Center on October 18. I was made aware of it by a friend during English class and was convinced to check it out before I went home. It was held in the second floor lobby, in the form of a small booth.

At first, I was a bit shy to go and start a conversation, but one of the sophmore’s from the booth approached and started the conversation. He explained how there were some internships that could be applied for even as a freshman. He handed out some papers that went into greater detail on what internships were available. He also took the time to talk about some of his experiences.

He went on to stress the difficulties of trying to get an internship and how it was important to start early in the search for one. He explained how some people would wait until their junior year to even begin looking for one and how that was late to start. Because of the difficulty in trying to land an internship, starting late meant a risk of not being able to get one at all.

Overall, the event was informative, and I am glad to have had the opportunity to attend it.

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Blog #3 Career Workshop

On October 18, a Wednesday, I went to the Freshman 15 with Starr Career Development Center. I did not know this event was even going on until my friend informed me about this flyer she received. The event was a 15 minute one on one information session on internships in Baruch. It seemed like a really good event to go to as it was forwarded towards Freshman. The timing was also perfect as I could go right after my English class has ended.

The event was just a simple table in the main lobby with workers talking one on one with participants. Although it was so simple, having a one on one conversation allowed it to be really informative. The worker, a sophomore student, gave us papers filled with information regarding internships during the summer. On these papers it had information regarding internships with The Big 4. Not only did it have information about the internships for the summer of freshman year, it also included sophomore and junior year. The paper have everything I would need, including how to apply for these internships.

He also gave us insight of when he went into a summer internship recently. Although it wasn’t an actual internship, and was more of a getting to know the business and him, he still talked about how necessary it was to go to. It allows you start a relationship with the businesses early and be recognized. He talked about the importance of going to internships early as many students would wait till junior year. Getting into these internships would not be easy as there would be at least 1, sometimes 2 interview processes to go through.

The Freshman 15 event was really informative for the short amount of time provided. It allowed me to have a good idea of the importance and difficulty of an internship.

 

Career workshop

On Tuesday I went to the Diversity Career Pipeline Programs Panel & Networking Event. It was held on the top floor of the New Vertical Campus Building. I found out about it from an email from the STARR Career Development Center. Once I got there, there were a lot of kids in there that were mostly freshman and most of them were wearing business clothes. Once it started each of the people up on the panel stated what each of their  programs were for and when the deadlines to sign up were for. They also told us the importance of networking and how important it is to start networking earlier to have an advantage to get the jobs you want later on. They gave us two papers one with the deadlines and the other with the aim of the programs just so we wouldn’t forget. After they finished speaking they gave experiences for some students that joined their program. When they were finished talking they set up tables so you could talk to the leaders personally and ask them any questions that you had and ask if their program was right for you. I found the panel very boring because I wasn’t very interested in the programs they were talking about, I’m not really hoping to work in business later on in life. Also I don’t qualify for a lot of these things since you have to be a sophomore and up. But even though I wasn’t interested in the programs I do think it is important to have these programs so people who do want to work in business can get ahead in life.

Cover Letter Workshop

I  attended a Cover Letter writing workshop today with the Career Development committee. In this workshop, Ricki Weitzen from the STARR center taught us how to write a cover letter, that followed with a peer review at the end. Attending this workshop was apart of one of the requirements to be apart of the Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society. I found this meeting very helpful because often in regular classes you are not taught how to write a cover letter, or even a resume. So for Baruch to hold workshops like these helps out students. I always had trouble writing cover letters because in my classes I was never taught it. But, this workshop taught me the basics of it. Learning how to properly write a cover letter is a skill every college student needs to know. Cover letters are one page documents that you send with your resume when applying for a job. I learned in the workout how to properly introduce myself to the hiring manager and argue why I’d be a good fit for the job. I learned to make sure to address the main points that a cover letter should contain, such as explaining why I’m applying for the job, why I’m a good match for the position, and to make sure to draw the reader’s attention by stating my qualifications. I learned how to demonstrate my abilities in just a simple page. Attending workshops like these help me with skills I will need throughout college and my future career.

 

Career/ Business Blog

I recently was accepted into the EMET program by Hillel at Baruch. It is a program that consists of about 25 Jewish students who are taught throughout a series of 10 sessions about Business and Judaism. Every week we have a prominent business speaker come in and discuss how these two things go hand in hand. Even from the first session, I could not have been more interested. At first I was skeptical of whether or not I would even enjoy or find any sort of connection to the speakers but I soon found myself attached to everything the speaker was explaining. I was able to relate alot of what he was saying to my family and form an attachment and suddenly understand first hand what he meant. Instantly you were able to feel the amazing, wholesome energy between everyone in the room. As though we were all complete strangers and in a matter of minutes we were all discussing and laughing amongst each other, as if we had known each other for years. I am very excited and looking forward to going through these next 9 sessions and learning about my culture as well as new techniques that have to relate to my future. I think this is an amazing opportunity to learn more about what I want to do with my life and opening my eyes to so many new interactions. I am hoping this program guides me into the right direction with what I want to do in the future and gives me a starting glance at what is to come. I’m thankful that I was able to come across and be able to take advantage of one of so many opportunities that come with not only Student Life but in terms of your career as well. Unfortunately, I had my phone away the whole lecture so I was unable to take any photos, however if needed I can provide one next week!

 

 

 

Underrepresented Majors Meeting

On Tuesday, me and Nat went into the meeting organized for students at Baruch who are majoring in majors that are not popular or well known at Baruch. I thought that the meeting was going to be crowded, but as the name suggested, only a few showed up and me and Nat were perplexed. The meeting started out with the students introducing themselves, their majors and their school. It was a small open discussion and I met some people with really quirky majors that I wouldn’t have expected to meet– like a sophomore in Biology and another in Environmental sciences. My major of political science is the biggest minority major at Baruch. In this day and age, I think college campuses should be more politically engaged because the millenial generation has potential to swing elections (mainly toward the Dem side). Political science opens up jobs in government, and my aspirations to draft drug policy could be augmented with a science minor (that will probably be underrepresented at Baruch). Baruch’s curriculum helps students like me enter a public sector job in many ways. I had mentioned at the meeting that it was noteworthy that companies like EY, MetLife, and other companies recruit directly on campus here. It is important to build new connections with other students in my freshman class because it will be mutually beneficial as we can help each other out professionally after we graduate. The meeting also touched on the topic of being more represented at Baruch. I had said that the Undergraduate Student Government was a good method on the democratic process and having a say in the running of our school. My major is not only good for government but also helps with going into Law School and being part of the New York State Bar Association. Meeting with people with underrepresented majors helps expose students to other potential majors besides business that one would not have thought of in the first place.

Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

On September 26 I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to write a paper for Art History. Since my normally scheduled history class was cancelled that day, I felt that it would be a great opportunity to go. To get to the Met I rode three subway trains which I felt was great experience in getting used to navigating the subway system.

Once I arrived at the Met, I quickly found that I had no idea where I needed to go. After walking around around a bit, I decided to ask one of the staff members where the exhibit I was looking for was. She pointed me to the doors that were 15 feet away. I felt like an idiot. With my head hung low, I walked inside of the European Art exhibit.

Inside were lots of paintings that with a single glance anyone could tell wrestling of a quality that deserved to be displayed in a museum. After looking around a bit, I found a painting that I absolutely fell in love with. Unlike most of the artworks that displayed scenes of the Christian faith, this painting was of some ships. I immediately knew that this was the painting I wanted to write about. Snapping a couple of pictures, I left and set off to write about this masterpiece.

Blog #2 The Met

A few weeks ago I was assigned a paper from art history class. I had to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pick a painting from the European Paintings sections and it and my museum experience. The day that I went, September 15th was a Friday so I was surprised to see that there were a lot of people at the museum. I have visited The MET several times and the atmosphere there is always lively. There were a lot of people sitting on the steps of the front entrance even though it was a hot and sunny day. There were also a lot of artists and street vendors trying to sell their artwork and souvenirs. Over the top of the entrance I noticed that there were 6 portraits of artist sculpted into the front, although I could only identify two artists, Michelangelo and Albrecht Dürer, the other four artists must have also made significant contributions to art to be on the main entrance.

Inside the lobby, I noticed that it was very crowded and noisy. However, inside the galleries it was very quiet. I saw that there were people, usually in pairs, actually looking at and discussing the paintings. The painting that I chose was in the Jayne Wrightsman Gallery, where there was a lot of French Neo Classical artworks. It is a portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife by Jacques-Louis David. I chose the painting because of its size and frame. It is one of the largest paintings in the room and it has a lavishly decorated frame compared to the other simpler frames in the room. After I was done viewing the painting I decided to stay and visit the other sections of the museum. From this experience, I learned that looking at art in person is better than looking at it from a computer screen because there are so many small details that one would not see through a screen.