While I was sitting on my bed the night before staring at my resume, I was wondering if this would be enough to impress the employers at the career fair. I tweaked my resume to its best and started to think of things to say to the employers. However, when it came time to go to the career fair, I’ve realized something, I might be the youngest one there. At the career fair, I was shocked to see a line that stretched down two floors from the main floor. It was at this moment that I realized that ids that go to Baruch care about their future careers. I also realized that getting a job will be very competitive seeing as how so many people attend these fairs to get an internship or a job. The career fair really helped me to understand and taught me to understand what I have to do when I am a junior and start looking for internships and jobs. I have learned how to introduce myself to the employers to present the best part of me. I talked to many employers ranging from the CIA to Bloomberg. From all these companies, I learned that accounting and finance play a major role in all of them. The first group of people I talked to was the CIA. I learned that CIA offers many jobs with a major in accounting. The internships are offered in the summer and require the student to relocate to Washington DC for the period of the internship. The same was said by the FBI, except the internship could be taken in their field offices like the one in New York City. For the FBI, I was mainly informed by a current intern that was being given a part time job, while still a sophomore. The MTA also offers internships for accounting majors. Rana Constant, who was the person I talked to, told me that people who worked in the MTA with accounting degrees turned out to be successful, mainly because other employers love to hire employers who worked for the MTA. The most interesting employer I talked to that day would be US Customs and Border Patrol agents. I was really surprised to see an employer who seems like they only hire agents for the field, hire many people with majors in accounting and finance. I learned that it was accountants in the department itself that handle all the money. It doesn’t get contracted to any company and the department does it themselves. I also talked to other companies that day like Bloomberg LP and Citi Bank. I wasn’t too surprised to see they business majors and I pretty much knew what to expect from these two companies. This is what I learned from my time at the career fair. For the time I was there, about two and half hours, I was able to learn so much more about the hiring process. I also learned that accounting existed in so many different companies including the FBI and CIA.
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