After coming home late Tuesday night, I was suddenly realized that my last blog post was due this Friday. Confused about which topic I didn’t fulfill, Kevin Zheng gave me a call. He told me that we were missing a career topic for our blog posts(both of us did the same topics) and to RSVP for the Starr Career Center event that was happening tomorrow. I went on the Baruch website and RSVP’d.

Coming into the workshop, I was eager to learn about resumes and the functions of getting a job in the real world. I hoped to have a few takeaways so that I could make my resume better, Adia T. was the staff member hosting the event. She gave us a first exercise of placing us in groups and handing out four resumes. We were to determine which one seemed more legit from the choices. Funny thing was, the resume the entire room chose had a small error on the header (name of Baruch College was spelled wrong) and Adia told us that this resume, despite it being full of intriguing info, was unacceptable.

She then went over slides on how we should be making our resumes. I found this very useful because I was getting tips on how I was going to update my resume for future employers to accept. Adia also mentioned an online survey that would determine a potential occupation based on our answers, but I guess I missed that part. It’s cool to have this resource here at Baruch because it would probably be hard to find someone willing to take time out of their day to explain such a topic like resumes. Adia was very patient and since it was a small room of students, it was easy to ask and have questions answered.