I visited Starr Career Center and proposed my resume I had created with the help of the Hillel Club. A woman named Karen Klein within the club had constructed and reviewed my resume with me within about an hour or two. I had thought that it would need a lot of work, but she told me only a few minor changes and it would be solid. I put in my education, experience, skills, and community service. They weren’t in the correct format however which is what Karen helped me with. As soon as we had the format down and the correct dates and locations listed, we immediately went into review and evaluated that it was solid. About two to three weeks later I made my way to Starr Center and introduced myself with my resume. They went over it and word for word said “excellent resume! It honestly has the best formatting I have ever seen and requires no change!” I was thrilled to hear that because I did not feel like re-editing my resume. I had a nice chat with one of the women from the center actually because of one of the skills I listed. I said I spoke fluent Arabic and she related because she was Middle-Eastern and knew Arabic too. Overall it was a nice and simple experience to have my resume reviewed. I was taken in so quickly and was done within 5 minutes.

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.  

For my last blog post, I️ attended a star career development center workshop. The workshop took place on Wednesday November 15, 2017 from 11am-12:15. First I️ had to RSVP online the night before. During the workshop, I️ learned about resume building. First, we talked about a focus 2 assessment. This assessment is free to Baruch students and can be found on the baruch website. This assesses your interest and skills and it gives you an occupation at the end. We moved on to reviewing four resumes. Some had errors and others had typos. I️ learned that just simplest typo will get your resume in the disregard pile from a hiring manager. I️ also learned to not put your GPA on your resume if it is under 3.0. The cliche resume building follows these guidelines: education, experience, skills, hobbies. I️ also learned that even though your previous job experience has nothing to do with the job you’re applying to, you should still put it down. This is because as freshmen, it is good to show that we have successfully been employed and we can articulate some skills we’ve learned from our previous jobs. I️ also learned to not put an objective section on your resume because most hiring managers don’t care much. While building your resume, it shouldn’t be too chunky. Things should be specific and straight to the point. It shouldn’t be in a paragraph form but in bullet points. At the end, I asked her if I can take a picture with her as proof that I attended, but she said no. She instead signed on the booklet she gave us.

I was excited to choose the MET, Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a place to visit to write my blog. Since I couldn’t go during the week, I went on a Saturday with my older sister. We walked around the outside for awhile because the weather was very nice and everyone was enjoying the outer view of the museum, which is famous for its stairs and aesthetic fountain. When we made it inside, we were able to enter for free and decided to visit the exhibit that features work from the Roman Era that dates back to 200 A.D. We saw many interesting sculptures, busts, and several different works of art that have been preserved for people to see upon their visit to the MET.

In the photo, that I had to take while I was there, I am standing next to a bronze portrait of a Roman Emperor, whose name was Caracella. Its origins are tied to Mesopotamia and dates back to 212 A.D. I was simply amazed at the way art was being used as a form of expression during that time period. It was like walking through some sort of time portal, understanding more and more how these people lived and what their idea of fine art really was.

After spending a good amount of time on this floor, we visited another exhibit where we saw oil paintings and cruised around the African Art wing where we saw really decorative masks and sculptures, some of which were carved intricately out of wood and made into odd-looking faces and figures. It was educational and thrilling to get a taste of historical art and definitely enjoyed my visit to the MET. The day would not have been as enjoyable and nice if it weren’t for the museum’s priceless works of art.