Tag: Career

Last week on October 5th I attended one of the Internship Seminars provided by the Starr Career and Development Center. This session was hosted by Michael Kalish, the internship coordinator at SCDC, and he had done a tremendous job presenting to us what defines an internship as well as the many opportunities we have at Baruch to research and apply for internships. When going over the presentation at this event, we discussed how paid internship programs are required to pay their interns at least $11 an hour, and that any wage lower than that is not acceptable. Internships that are not paid and do not offer college credit are also unacceptable most of the time. Different kinds of internships available on the SCDC website include, zero-credit internships, credit internships, paid/unpaid internships, as well as On-Campus Recruitment Internships. These can be found using our Starr Search accounts on their website. After reviewing internships, Kalish explained how we can build comprehensible, organized, and excellent resumes for internship and job applications. We learned that the main characteristics that should be emphasized on a great resume are: leadership, problem solving, results orientation, collaboration, and communication. Overall the entire discussion was much more informative than I expected and I felt that the SCDC was somewhere I would like to visit more often later on to prepare myself for my future at Baruch and afterward.

 

This Thursday, I attended an ALPFA Workshop. This was one of their many workshops that dealt with career development and success for the future. When we first arrived, we were greeted by smiling faces, and of course, the star of the show- pizza. During this first workshop, after everyone had eaten, we discussed the basics in writing a resume and how to use the skills we learned to make our resume look better and make it more effective and beneficial. A well written resume goes a really long way and is the first step in starting your career. As someone who has only written a resume to pass a class in high school, I was able to learn a lot from this workshop. It taught me what needed to be present on the resume to help me stand out in a large stack of them. At this workshop, the mentors also discussed basic leadership skills and how we can become better leaders, not only in Baruch, but in everyday life as well. They discussed the importance of networking and how we can use people that we know and meet to get ahead in life. I really enjoyed attending this workshop and I will most likely be attending future workshops done by ALPFA so that I can hopefully build my resume and acquire social skills that will prepare me for the years beyond college.