For my career enrichment opportunity, I chose to attend at Starr Career Development Center workshop. The workshop I participated in was called, Building Your Brand: The Personal Pitch. Throughout the workshop I learned how to prepare a personal pitch, prep for an interview, and apply it to real life situations. To produce our specific pitches we highlighted our specific strengths, abilities, and unique traits. We then were able to practice our pitches with other people in the room and tweak what we needed to. Overall, the workshop was a great learning experience. I was able to focus on what sets me apart from future competition I may encounter and practice a delivery system that would encourage a future employer to hire me. Another resource I learned about in the Building Your Brand workshop was the ‘S.W.O.T.’ or ‘Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities in Your Career Field, and Threats in Your Career Field’ grid.Using a 2×2 table, you can list out noteworthy things in each category to better understand what you have to offer and what you need to work on. It gives you the opportunity to capitalize on your strengths, overcome your weaknesses, and identify external threats and opportunities in your chosen career field. I truly believe the skills I learned in this workshop are definitely going to come in handy later in life. Knowing how to market yourself correctly and convincingly is a skill that you’ll need in every networking scenario, whether that be attending a career fair, having an interview, or keeping connections alive with previous employers or mentors. Baruch College has a wealth of services available, such as the Starr Career Development Center workshops and I plan on taking full advantage of them. I have already joined a student club or organization and for my next activity I plan on attending a Writing Center workshop.
