On Wednesday, I was flowing through life without a care in the world when Keven and Mike called me over. They started interrogating me on weather or not I reserved a stop in the Starr Development seminar. Me being me, I had no idea what they were talking about, so Kevin explain to me that I have to go on the Baruch website and make a reservation because they are only once a week and I don’t go to the one that was taking place in ten minutes I wouldn’t be able to write the blog for Friday. I went on the website and the page to make reservations showed that it was full. But being the resilient man I am, I walked into the seminar… and no one cared that I didn’t have a reservation, so I claimed a seat.
During the seminar Adia was talking about all the components of a resume, the main thing that stood out to me is that people going through resumes only send an average of around 8 seconds skimming through them. This gave me laugh because I thought to myself that I could get a job position over some guy in Yale just because the other guy had a shitty format, and mine look properly structured. This seminar gave made me extremely optimistic because Adia mentioned that employers greatly appreciate job experience, and I’ve been work as long as I could walk it seems. The best part of the entire seminar was at the very end when Adia asked if anyone had any questions and the only person that responded was Kevin. He asked, with no context, “Can I take a picture with you?” A feeling of confusion and comfortableness flooded her face because normally they ask for a signature in their freshman seminar booklet, she wasn’t used to weird kids asking to take a photo with her in the middle of a silent classroom. Mike and I were laughing the entire time.
The experience was pretty cool overall, the main thing I need to do is format my resume in an appealing way and make what I did seem a lot more interesting and important then it actually is.
Example:
On Resume: Handled financial transactions quickly and accurately for a multi billion dollar corporation.
Reality: Was a cashier at McDonald.
