For the career workshop, I decided to attend a Starr Career Development Center Workshop on Thursday during club hours with my friends. The workshop focuses on job searching techniques and skills. The workshop included a detailed and informative PowerPoint presentation with numerous slides on different job searching skills. The workshop staff, Michael, presented many new important information. I learned a lot more about acquiring an internship, writing my resume, going to job interviews, and the proper ways to behave in a professional work environment. Michael also taught us how to use the Baruch Starr Search website as well as other job search engines such as Indeed, LinkedIn, and Idealist including his personal opinions and preferences. Prior to the workshop, I did not know how to use the Starr Search website provided to us. But during the workshop, Michael walked us through the website and pointing out important features. I learned that you can look for internships on the website according to your major or interest and you can also filter out the jobs that you are not interested in. On Starr Search, you can edit your profile for employers to look at. Michael showed us an example of a graduate’s profile in which you can include your GPA and major in your profile. In addition, I learned about resume skills that you should always only include key qualities and keep your resume to be only one page long. Michael also went over the major skills that employers want. He provided an in-depth explanation on each of the skills. The skills include leadership, problem solving, results orientation, collaboration, and communication. Not only did Michael explained each one of these skills, he also explained how to showcase each of them to your potential employer rather than just including them in your resume. Towards the end of the workshop, we were given a packet with pages of checklists and mock interview questions in which it will help me prepare for future job search and interviews.

For my third and final FRO blog post, I decided to go have my resume check. I went a few days earlier to ask about the walk-in times of the resume review and got a paper listed with the days and times available. I went on a Wednesday which the walk-in hours is 3-5pm. I went a little bit earlier than 3 pm and had to wait until 3 pm for the sign-in sheet. After I signed in, I waited briefly before my name was called to get my resume reviewed.

The person that was assigned to me for reviewing my resume was a young lady who exchanged handshakes at first meet. She then led me to her office room where she discussed my resume with me. She is very nice, passionate and knowledgeable. She is also very enthusiastic and alert; whenever I had a question she would promptly answer and it would fulfill my questions. She went through my resume with me step by step without missing any single detail. She paid attention to what I wrote and ask me to clarified any statements on my resume that was not clear to her. Then she would suggest any rewrites or none. For some of the rewrites or cross-outs, she would ask me for my feedback.

Overall, she did a fabulous job reviewing my resume. I previously thought my resume was very well written and after the resume review session, I will have to fix a lot of my resume. My resume is now filled with cross-outs, insertions of phrases, indent marks and more. She was able to explain any of her edits she made. Also, she complimented me on my resume saying it was impressive. Moreover, she constantly thought about how my resume would reflect for my intended major which is accounting.

Afternote: I forgot to ask her to sign in my Freshman seminar book so I had to go back there a few days later when she was available and had to wait for half an hour just to get her signature.