(As originally published in The Ticker: http://ticker.baruchconnect.com/article/career-corner-new-blog-creates-virtual-guidance/)
By : Kamelia Kilawan, Peers for Careers/SCDC Correspondent
One piece of advice that the career office is always trying to share with students is to take advantage of the great network that your student colleagues can provide to you. Often, we in the Career Center will hear stories about students helping students with their job/internship search.
The Starr Career Development Center (SCDC) provides excellent resources for students to utilize in order to harness their true potential. With growing digital media and with the student population becoming more tech-savvy, it is evident that students will begin to use the Internet as a primary source for career advice, influence and guidance from all aspects ranging from academics to professionalism.
All over the country, we are beginning to see a new trend, one where we no longer carry a daily newspaper, where textbooks are becoming fully digital and where we take to social media to reflect upon our lives.
This new development is becoming more obvious, and students who do not keep up with the efficiency and effectiveness that is social media and blogging will be missing out on information that not only comes by the second, but is as influential and informative as what the professional themselves would advise face to face. To build on this, the SCDC has launched a new resource for students to use to stay abreast of trends and to help them further their own professional development.
To help keep students informed about the SCDC’s announcements and to facilitate peer-to-peer learning, the SCDC is launching a new blog. Starrlights, the Center’s new blog is designed by students for students.
The members of the Peers for Careers program are uniquely prepared to write the blog, as they are both undertaking their own career exploration and building processes as well as having been trained by the Center staff to help students with skills ranging from resume and cover letter writing to mock interviewing.
Since it first launched in the Fall of 2012, Starrlights has featured weekly stories ranging from lessons learned about phone interviewing, reflections on how to make the most of your time at Baruch, to career journeys in journalism and game development.
During the spring semester, Starrlights will highlight the career journeys of noteworthy Baruch students and post exclusive interviews with Baruch alumni from a variety of career paths.
If you are a Baruch student interested in sharing lessons learned from your career, please email Dr. Ellen Stein, deputy director and Peers for Careers coordinator, at [email protected].
Ultimately, what is most important while creating this blog was to address the collective career experiences and issues that students face. The blog is a space that highlights common challenges faced by students and keeps you informed about what other students have accomplished.