By: Frankie Gonzales, BBA Finance
During the summer most students, myself included, usually
check-out of school. They just had yet another difficult semester and any talk
of school and the upcoming Fall semester usually returns a stop-talking face.
However, let me tell you there can be a significant benefit to thinking about
your career path. By investing some time into your personal career development
you are making a direct investment in yourself.
Fall is a big recruiting season for most firms across the
country. Many will be traveling to campuses and will be hosting information
sessions about their companies. Also many application deadlines for top-notch
summer internships are due towards the end of the fall semester. This means
that if you want to be competitive for the recruiting season and land your
dream job/internship you should spend some time over the summer getting
prepared. One of the best things is that
it doesn’t require any calculus, statistics, accounting or anything that brings
up impressions of work. Everyone’s fall semester is busier than they expected
during the summer and you don’t want to get caught the night before an
application is due trying to throw together a resume and practicing your
interview skills.
How should you get started? Well let me tell you… head on
over to the Anderson Career Services Office and make an appointment! Kate
Williams, the career services advisor, will take care of you and help you setup
your personal professional development plan. Come with questions, ideas, and
any drafts you have. Don’t worry if you don’t have anything at all, there is no
better time to start than now! Some things to think about are what do you want
to be doing in the future? Kate has many ideas and lots of helpful advice to
help you start your path of professional development.
I had the opportunity to work with the Anderson Career
Services Office this past summer and it was an all-around great experience. Kate
helped me to setup my resume by showing me how to better use my experience and
my skills to my advantage on paper. We talked about everything from how to get
my resume noticed by a recruiter to how to introduce myself at an interview.
Everything that we went over made me much more confident going into all of the “Brand
You” Events and the Career Fair in the fall. So trust me taking time to work on
your professional development really pays off in the end.
Summer is such a huge opportunity for Anderson Students to
set themselves up for success at all of the career services events over the
course of the year and remember that one of the best ways to get a job that you
love is to prepare ahead of time. Anderson provides many resources for their
students and it’s up to you to take advantage of them, trust me they truly
help! If you have any questions at all please contact me at fgonza03@unm.edu.
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