To fulfill my career blog post, I decided to go to STARR Career Center. At first I had no idea where to go, but my friend Mike was able to guide me. I wanted to go to STARR for a two main reasons. One was to look for any potential internship opportunities as I have a lot of spare time on my hands. The other reason was to get help organizing my resume while looking at example cover letters. When I walked in I was greeted by a man at the front desk, I told him was I was looking for and he was able to assist me. He gave me a guide that included resume formats. It included some specifics that I had no idea were beneficial in creating my resume. In terms of finding out more about internships, I was told to look on the STARR website frequently for opportunities. That night I spent some time readjusting the format of my resume to meet the requirements on the given guide. It took me about 1 hour, but it was time well spent because my resume was noticeably well organized. The next day I went online to look for some internships, however I was met with a frequent problem. Most internships required students in their sophomore year. This was kind of a bummer since I was becoming interested in working, however it wasn’t all too bad because I actually found some business related internships that I was able to currently apply for. For some of the applications I just had to link my resume that was saved on my computer. I still didn’t have a cover letter however, which some of the applications had to option for. I plan on going back to the STARR center to familiarize myself with the cover letter. Overall, I got what I wanted out of the career center and I will carry techniques learned into future applications.
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