So we will be recording this session and we will send this PowerPoint out to you all in case you find that helpful. We've got some links that might be helpful for you to use. And it will also be up on the career, the main Career Services page in the Media Library. Once it's transcribes, that might take a little bit, but we will send the fly that to you in case that's helpful. So I'm actually going to turn off my videos so I'm not distracting myself and you. And we will jump into the actual content of this session. So obviously we are here today to talk about hacking your job and internship search. And this is really for folks who are interested in data and tech kind of addition, that's what we're going to be focusing on today. We do a lot of info and I'm going to be kind of talking at you a lot, so I apologize for that. Now we've gotten a few things to have you all kind of engage with us and some conversation. But for the most part I'm just going to be sharing a lot of information. We're covering a lot kind of from job and internship, searching all the way through the process. So it might be a lot of information. Don't worry if you feel a little bit overwhelmed, that's okay. The lot of info we're here to help you as you move through this process. So here are some of the things we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk a little bit about exploring careers and technology, how to figure out what kinds of careers are out there. We're going to talk a little bit about networking, how to find different opportunities, whether that's an internship or even hackathons and things like that. Timeline for recreating. Going to go over some tips for your application materials. We'll talk a little bit about types of interviews you can expect. And if you think about how to get prepped for those interviews, and then just some next steps that might be helpful as we go along. So let's first start with some tech related opportunities before I go into that and wondering what you all know about tech related opportunities. So we're going to do a quick activity in your chat box. If you can pop up the chat box. Tell me what is the top related roles that you know about like some job title? Some types of roles. Going to give you a minute and go ahead and toss one or two names that some tech role, which we're aware of already into the chat box. Yes, data analysts. Ooh, I did a journalist. A good one. Yeah. Information Technology. Good addition. Technical Project Manager. Yeah, that's a good one. Looks like most of you are sharing to host then panelists, and that's okay. You're also welcome to share with everyone so everyone can see your answers. If you want to do that. Good. So there's lots of different types roles within the tech world. So we're going to talk a little bit about that. One of the things that's really important is exploring a little bit about what's out there, technologies, a wide career area. So a good place to start asking yourself what you want to be doing. Thinking about what you want from a role. Do you want something that's going to allow you to be creative? Maybe something that's more client-facing? Or are you looking for something that's a little bit more backends because you don't really want to work with clients that much thinking about those things that are important to you can be helpful when you're looking for different types of opportunities for you to understand what you're looking for. So you can create that strategy. Here are some of the different types of role then this is not an exhaustive list that you might be interested in, whether we're looking at hardware or software. Whether you're more interested in working with data or doing maybe some user experience where there are a lot of different roles and opportunities kind of within that tech world. Once you have an idea for what you want to do, the next question to look at is, where do you want to do it? So when we're looking at technology, these roles that I was just talking about a minute ago, showing you, they're available in all industries. Technology is growing. We can find it in every aspect of our lives. And that means you're not necessarily limited to working for a technology company. You can do tech work and a lot of different industries. So these are a few that you might want to consider. And again, this is only a few. It's an important to explore options in all of these different areas. When we're looking at technology, we're talking about things like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, any of our tech companies. There are a lot of tech jobs and media. So that could be things like Comcast, Viacom, and NBC, Disney and lots of tech roles within that world. Health care lots of Roles within Johnson and Johnson in or NextGen Healthcare SOC Telemed. So those software heavy positions within healthcare are out there. Consumer product goods when we talk about consumer products, that's like L'Oreal, patchsee, the Unilever, some of those products developing companies. And then there's tech roles within education, whether that's higher education OR K-12, colleges and universities, a lot of technical positions available there, teaching and learning software that's out there. Lots of different application books are using within higher ed or K 12. So lots of different areas that you can be looking at. So as you are starting to do your search for tech positions, really thinking about what it is you want to do and where it is you want to do that. Let's talk a little bit more about how to do that research, how to find those things. There are some great resources out there to help you explore the tech world a little bit more that can provide information on different industries. Vault guys are one that we recommend to a lot of folks. As a Cornell students, you do have free access to the Vault guides. These are guides that give you information on different industries and job titles. It can be a really good resource. Explore various industries and to pull the technology roles out within those various industries. They're really comprehensive and your guide on just about everything, we can help you navigate vaults if you ever want some assistance with that. But looking at those Vault guides can be a really great place to get survey involved. There are also some interviews that you can watch if you are not as much of a reader and want to learn a little bit more about different conditions. There are some video interviews that you could watch as well. Company websites are another really great place to get more information. Larger companies with Google, which is the picture we have here, have extensive information listed on their career pages about different departments and how those departments fit within the organization. Going directly to those company website and doing a little digging can give you a lot of information on the types of roles that they offer. Informational interviews is another thing that we often recommend. It's a really important step after you start to do a little research into what you might want and where you might want to go to get that position and setting up some time to talk with others who are in that role doing that thing that you want to do. Conversations with folks are a great way to find out if you actually would enjoy a job because you can talk to somebody about what that day to day position looks like, how the team works, what it's like to work with that company. You can get a lot more information from that quick conversation. Sometimes then you can just reading a lot about a company or an industry. In these if you are gonna do informational interviews, which I always recommend. You want to ask them good open-ended questions to gather A little bit more information going into that with some questions that you have are some things that you want to share about yourself. Advice you might want to ask somebody about roles that might fit with those interests areas. This is a great way to get more information. And later on the process, you might be able to leverage some of these informational interviews as we go into kind of networking professionally. So it can be some relationships that you keep. Along the way. That research piece was really important part before you even jump into that job application step, we want to be able to really do research and get a feel for what it is I'm looking for and where do I want to be applying? Let's talk a little bit about networking. I am going to do a quick poll here. And I would love for folks to tell me, how do you feel about networking? Take a minute. Let me know how do you feel about this? Okay, great we are getting some good responses. Now a couple more who haven't responded yet, I'll give you a couple more seconds. How do you feel about networking? Nothing kind of mixed reviews coming out here. Nice, almost everybody almost everybody responded. Great so when we are looking at how both feel about networking, we have a couple of people who are into it. They are ready to go. Lots of I feel okay. But I'm not really sure how to do it or I feel fine. I love it, but I can do it. A couple of people nervous. That one person who feels negatively. I loved the people who's terrified. This is what I felt like when I used to hear the word networking, it made me nauseous. I did not want to think about it anymore. But let's talk about what I mean by networking. When we are talking about networking. And it can be a really kind of scary word. Some folks ask how, how important is networking? I get this question a lot. What we're advising students, how important, how important is networking in the tech world? And I would say networking is really important no matter what industry you're in. It's oftentimes not enough to just put an application in mind, especially in the tech world, when we're looking at some of these larger tech firms that are more competitive. So it is an important step of that process. It can be helpful to kind of shift the way that you're thinking about networking. Think about networking instead. Of this scary big word as relationship building. This is really just you reaching out, interacting with folks who are doing those things you might want to do in a future, learning from them, gaining some knowledge networking is an ongoing relationship. It's a conversation between two people where both participants are talking and sharing. So when you're networking, we want to be really purposeful in our interactions with others. Sometimes when you're networking, it can happen really organically. Sometimes when I'm talking about networking, you could be talking with somebody in an elevator and you just happened to start talking about something that you're interested in. They have some connection. Then you start to chat about where they're working or who they might know. Oh, you should talk to this person at this company. I'm really close friends with them and they'd be totally willing to meet with you. So it can happen really organically. Although oftentimes when we're talking about networking, it's really kind of reaching out and starting to build those relationships with folks. What is networking? Again, that ongoing process of relationship building. We are not just asking someone for something we're sharing a little bit about herself and asking them to share something about themselves. You want to be really purposeful in the way that you interact with others. Generally, when we're talking about networking, you don't want to just reach out to someone and say, Hey, can you give me a job? We wanted to talk with folks about their own experience in the industry, maybe asking for their advice. What advice do you have for me as I'm moving forward with this interest? So when we're talking about networking, It's really more about relationship building and reaching out, learning and growing than it is about finding someone who's going to get you a job. We hope that that will then turn into a recommendation or a reference from somebody. But that initial outreach when you're talking with someone should really be about learning. When we're talking about networking, would you want to focus in the tech world on finding folks who are working in those positions you want. So employees rather than the recruiters. Recruiters are wonderful and they are folks who will help you to navigate the process of applying to positions. But in the tech world, employees are working in those roles, have more influence over the application process, more pull over that process in tech referrals can be really important. Google, for instance, your application goes to the bottom of the stack, kind of works its way up to eventually be read by the recruiter. But if an application has referral attached to it, your application, it's guaranteed to be reviewed within seven days. That's really significant because it pulls you to the top of the pile. So making those connections can be really important. We do want to strive for quality over quantity. Some people asked me, how many people should I networked with? And really it's not a specific number. We want to reach out to try to find someone to talk to in those roles that you're applying to. Especially in those companies which are really, really excited about, many of you are going to be putting in a lots of applications. Probably not going to be able to find and networking connection within Every one of those companies, so we want to pick and choose, what are those top companies that I would really like to know more about that I would really like to make some connections with and start focusing there. When you are reaching out to somebody. Within this kind of networking situation, we don't ever want to lead with that. Hey, I'm looking for an internship. We don't want to attach our resumes to an initial outreach, that first initial outreach, when you're trying to talk with somebody, you'll reach out and think, Hey, this is a little bit about me. I'm a sophomore at Cornell, study in info sci and I'm really interested in data analytics, that you're in this particular role and that you've had these experiences that are really interesting to me. I wondered if you might be willing to talk with me a little bit about your experience. So we're not saying, Hey, I'm looking for a job. Could you hook me up? But really more about can you share your experience with we you do want to come prepared to those conversations with some good, open-ended questions, asking them about their own journey. The role itself. The company trying to get a feel for what it's like to be working there. So just some tips when we're looking at that. These are all important because no one's going to give you a referral unless they know what kind of candidate you are and that you're serious about the position. So being able to have the conversation with someone, make them feel heard and really listen to the things that they're saying. And to be able to share some of your interests can really go a long way for them to get to know you with the candidates. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about how to network. There are some good places to get started when we're looking at binding connections. So on Canvas, we have different hands with different events, posted in Handshake. Definitely keep an eye out on the events section when they're looking at handshake, go in and take a look. We've got a lot of virtual information session happening. We've had the career fair, of course, which some of you may have gone to you, but we also have a lot of employer info sessions happening on campus or virtually at this point, maybe to return on campus at some point. Here's another fair that will likely be happening in the spring. We don't know what that date is yets and we do still have thumb technology employers looking for full-time and summer interns. That could be another place to go to kinda get a feel for what else is still out there. But check that handshake Event tab regularly. CUelinks is a really great place to be looking for connections. CUelinks for those of you who maybe don't know what it is, yet its basically like a LinkedIn for Cornell. So it's Cornell Alumni who have signed up or opted in to help students. They're saying, I want to talk with students. You can go in and search using keywords. So if there's certain position that you're hoping to look for, you can type that position in and see what kind of alumni are popping up. You can look by company name, industry. You can even search via clubs or organizations which are involved in to see if maybe you a connection through that. It's a great place to start. And you're likely to get, to get more responses from CUeLinks than you would LinkedIn because they opted in. Linkedin is another great place to be finding people. If you go and you search Cornell in LinkedIn, you can go directly to Cornell's page. Once you're there, you click on the Alumni button. You can search the alumni that are listed there, where they live, where they work, but they do all of those kinds of things. So that's another great place to find. Folks. You can click the connect button that there's somebody you're interested in talking with and it'll ask you whether you want to add a note. Always, I don't know, makes it a little bit more purposeful and personal. This allows you to explain why you specifically reaching out to them. So make sure that when you're putting a note in whether that's on CUeLinks or Linkedin, in that you're making it specific to them, what's unique about them that's drawn. You to want to talk to them and really focus that first connection on information and knowledge gathering. And don't forget about personal connection. You may know someone in the industry. You may someone knows someone who knows someone in the industry. Think about folks in your classes. and, maybe where they've done internships in the past, or maybe where they have family or friends working, they may have some connections for you. So don't be afraid to talk with folks about your interest areas. Somebody may know someone that you can connect up with. Think about people in your clubs and organizations or folks who live in the residence hall with you. They may have some connection. So making sure that you think about those kind of warm hand off, as I call it. That's a great place to be looking to find people to talk with. I did want to see if there were any questions before we move on from networking. Meghan, Do we have any questions in the Q and A about networking right now? At this point, no, we do not have any of the Q and As. Right? I'm going to move forward and we can always ask more questions at the end. So let's talk a little bit about finding opportunities. Once you have an idea of what you're looking for, you can start to search. And this is just a handful of resources that we have that can help you identify opportunities. If you are, have something specific in mind, you're always welcome to work with your college career office to help you navigate and strategize and find some more opportunities if you're having trouble. The first place. We always want you to start with handshake whenever you can. Handshake is great because the employers who are there are looking for Cornell students, even if the applications says to apply externally, you want to click through Handshake for that initial upflow because a lot of the larger tech companies have specific Cornell recruiters who are looking at handshake and managing the applications from our institution. That is your kind of first place that we want. Are you going handshake? I have a few industry specific website listed here that might be helpful depending on some of the things you're looking. Or dice have a lot of different types of technology roles within the technology world. This is within the technology. Built-in, for instance, is a star about cite. Many, there are built-in sites in all of the largest cities in the US. And these are specifically tech startups. So these are great places to look for different types of internships if you kinda wanna get in and have a little bit of a broader experience. Some of these are a little smaller and you might have some different Different pieces which are able to do within that internship wall. You might get a little bit more authority, are a little bit more experience, which could be really cool. So taking a look through some of these types of industry specific websites can be a great place to be looking. Some of you may be really inspired, for instance, by, by social good, like doing, doing some work for the world. So places like tech jobs for good is a great place to look for that their tech roles, but most of them are with organizations that have some type of like social justice or environmental justice focus. So those can be some cool things to check. Now, these are some industry specific website. The other place is going directly to the website of organizations, firms that you know. So if there's a company that you're really interested in working with. You can go to directly to the company website and look for the careers section, for the job section, sometimes they have a place for Students that you can click on That's where you can look to find other internships directly on company websites. There are some programs designed specifically for first, second year students. I know some of you in the world today, our first second years, most of our first-year students, the summer after your first year don't do a full-blown internship, and sometimes after your sophomore year as well. There are again, these programs that are specifically designed for folks who are early on in their academic career. Professional development based programs to help you figure out if tech is right for you or what area of tech is right for you. Here's a few listed and there are other tech companies that have programs to doing a little digging can be helpful. We can help you do that as well. The due dates for these programs, vary some open really early Google step for entrant, for instance, recruits really early in the fall while others open a little bit later, or even into the spring semester. A lot of these programs are identity-based. So that's one thing to pay attention to. Really. They're looking at companies looking to increase access and support for folks who have not always had access to those types of roles. To take a look to see if this is something that you might be qualified, more interested in, just search for some of these roles. If you're looking in like a handshake or any of those sites, you can use keyword search and use words like leadership or rotational, sophomore, of course, early ID. Those are something that you could type in while you are looking for some of these particular internships. If you don't get an internship for summer 2020 too that's okay. As long as you're doing something this summer towards your career development, ideally, we want something on the resume that's related to your interests, some options over the summer, but full-time internship doesn't end up working out. Learning new skills. Linkedin learning and skill software, both free for you as a Cornell student and are great places for you to develop some new skills. You can use things like Coursera or Khan Academy to learn a new programming language or to do some different projects. Hacker rank and leak code, or to websites where you can go and do some coding skill work. Hacker rank is actually preferred resource for employers to send students. Coding challenges from which we'll talk about in a little bit. So it can be cool to get in there and try it out a little bit. Familiarize yourself with the program and familiarize yourself with doing some of those coding challenges. Other options over the summer are doing things like creating an independent project. Employers really like to see these on a resume. You're really showing your passion for the work that you're doing. Work on a project that you're not getting graded on and you're working at it in your free time. If you're looking for something more tangible and you're early on in your academic career, you might also want to consider research. One option for off campus research is experience for undergraduate program through the National Science Foundation. Their program funded are all different universities. And you can go and look and see what types of research being done at each university. Most of those come with a stipend and they like put you up in the residence hall on that campus. and you're working with other researchers from different colleges. So there's a nice kind of camaraderie that happens there. That's a great way to gain a little bit more formal practical experience if you're not leaning towards that full-blown internship for this upcoming summer, juniors, a lot of you are really wanting to get that internship this summer. That's an important summer for you to be. I'm participating in an internship similar to that position. You're looking for a lot of return offers do happen from that summer. After junior year. Internship is something for you to think about. You can also be participating in things like hackathons, help participating in teaching at coding camps or programs like ID tag or Girls Who Code. Those are some great places to gain some skills. And your career office can certainly help you find some of those things if that's something that you're interested in looking for. Let's talk a little bit about the application process itself. First, I want to talk about timeline. The general, this is a general timeline. It's applicable for internships and full-time recruiting. Folks, generally in the tech world will hire interns the same time that they're hiring full-time staff members. So this can be a good general timeline. In February, there might still be opportunities open in the tech industry, but we're really seeing a lot of that happening early on August. Applications are open and you're probably going to see a lot of them in there right now opening up. Oftentimes, they are opening in. I guess some of them will close on August, most of them are starting to continue through September. You're going to be continuing to apply. Interviews often will start in September. So maybe you've been applying for while you're starting to get interviews for some of those first roles, you might still be applying to continue getting those options to open until you get an actual offer. October, you're going to see interviews continuing. We're going to start to see some offers for trickling in through October. That's the main timeline for tech industries. In the spring we're going to see things like non-profit government startups. positions will start to open in February. We're going to see a lot of those startups open up. March we see a kind of education-related tech opportunities start to recruits. And then April is usually nonprofits. They often aren't going to be able to hire as early on. They're not sure what they can support in terms of finance or supervisors or things like that. So you see a little bit different types of positions open throughout the entire year. But those tech companies that you're looking at are going to be really heavy in that early, early fall right now. Starting to open up and starting to do interviewing, coming up soon. This has been shifting a little bit with COVID and the last two years or so. So if there's a certain company that you're interested in, specifically, it is a good idea to go to their website to see what their particular timeline are. This can be a good general timeline you to be looking at. So let's talk about your actual application. Materials, so first your resume, and kind of what needs to be included. It's really important on your resume to demonstrate an interest in technology. This can be through a number of different areas. Starting with coursework, make sure you include the courses that you've taken related to the position. You don't want to bog our resumes down with every single course you've ever taken. But pick out those things that are relevant and important to make sure that you put them on your resume. Academic knowledge is something that will prepare you for these roles. Remember too, that class projects are considered experience and technology. This is especially important to remember if you don't have any related experience now or you're new to technology, it's important to have some type of relevant experience on there. And those project experience is a great way to do that. Usually you want to pick two to four of the most relevant or important projects that you have participated in. It doesn't make sense for the position. We won't keep it on there. We're really wanting to curate that and target it towards the positions that you're looking for. These could be again, of course, projects that we just talked about. Also things like open source projects, independent project, participate, participation in hackathons or with projects teams if you're involved with that on campus, those are great things to have on your resume. When you're highlighting those projects. We would want to name the project and then bullet underneath the things that you did within that project. I care less about what the app itself does and more about how you programmed it. So really thinking about your contributions to that projects can be helpful as you're putting that on your resume. And we want to know that you're coding or designing and how you're doing that. the skill section is another really important section that should always be on a tech resume. And we only want to include hard skills that coding languages, software, spoken languages as well. We don't want the soft skills like communication or public speaking. Those are things we want to be able to put in the bullets within your experiences. Whether that's other work experience you've had or internships or leadership experience. That's where you can pull a lot of those soft skills out. The skill section is really about those technical skills. In with your skills, you also want to include your level of expertise in that area. So things like beginner proficient prior experience and advance. Generally, we wouldn't put expert on there unless you're a super expert and can teach people who are doing professionally for years. We will avoid the word expert, but giving them an idea of what your level is. Know that anything that's on your resume, it's fair game to ask about in an interview. So if you'd have like just kind of a vague idea of what a programming language is we probably wouldn't want to put up, put it on there, or we may say knowledge of Java as opposed to intermediate, because you might not be intermediate. So really think about where you are in terms of your proficiency level and make sure that you do. Put that on your resume. Couple other tips for your resume. You do want to keep it to one page. You shouldn't need more than one page if you have a focused, targeted resume specific to that internship or job, you're applying to different types of jobs. Maybe the projects that you put on there change a little bit and that's okay. We can also help you to target that if that's something you're a little unclear about. Not very common to see cover letters in the tech industry. Most of them don't want them if they are required. I would talk with your career office at about making sure to make them focus and make them targeted towards that particular role and towards that particular company. if an application doesn't require a lot, a cover letter. We do want to make sure that that resume is on point. So making sure that it's really targeted and that you're flushing out all of your experiences really well. Let's see another way to tailor is to Make sure that the most relevant information is on the first half of the resume. So maybe you don't have a lot of experience. We may have your coursework up at the top. We may have some project experience up at the top and then some additional experience where you highlight maybe some of the work experience you've had a bit that isn't as relevant. So we're really trying to pull the most relevant things right to the top of the page. The employer does not have to look for it at all. And remember, we're developing the descriptions for those resumes. We really want to ask ourselves, what did I do? How did I do it? For what purpose? What are the results? Thinking about how we can develop some nice bullets under your experiences. All right, Another question that I commonly get asked when working with tech students, is how creative can I get with formats? So let's do a quick poll. I'm going to show you two resume and I am going to pop open a poll for you. These resumes, do you prefer A or B? I'm gonna give you a chance to take a look at and let me know what do you prefer a or B? Maybe just a couple more seconds to answer. Once you Preference it alright So we've got 13 out of 16 who played, who prefer twice, a couple of prefer choice B. Thank you for participating. So when we're looking at these resumes, I would say though, B is interesting and has some festive colors and some interesting graphics. It's not very effective. There's no information that we need. We don't see the information that we need to determine if Clarissa here is a good candidates. So there's a few things about B that I would say are not so helpful. First off, we don't want to put a picture on a resume. In the United States, there are other countries that do allow pictures on a resume or even require pictures on a resume in the US We don't do we don't want your pictures on there. Becky. No profiles or professional summaries at this point. We want to really learn more about your experiences. They, those for your website, you're designing that really thinking about sharing your experiences on this resume. we don't also really have any idea of what Clarissa that you did in her work experience section. She doesn't have any description, so I don't really get a very good feel For what some of these experiences are, she says, for instance, under her work experience that she's a digital illustrator. But what does that mean? What kind of projects did she work on? What did she do within that role? I don't know. And then lastly, her skills, section have that fancy scale, but we don't know what that means. What is five dots, what is 3D dots? We've gotten some feedback from recruiters in the past. who you really prefer you to use words for your proficiency levels. Or we a novice or beginner or intermediate, or be proficient or we advance, that's going to tell them a lot more than the bubbles because it's really subjective. We don't know what that looks like. I would say out of these leaning towards A more thorough resume, you're going to get more traction and more response from an nth aware from a, then you went from B, even though B looks kind of cool. But from afar, once you get up close, it doesn't have that information that you need. Now some of you might be going into a more creative wall. So something like now a, is it something that you might be able to use in some of those more creative role. As long you're really still telling your story and it's in line with your brand. And we're going to talk about that in a minute. We want to make sure that that resume it very easy to read that the content is there, that I know what it is. This you did in the different roles that you've had. Those applying for anything that is attack role, that is not a creative role, you're going to want them much more simple resume that you can see here on the right. This is what your employers are looking for when you're not applying to those design roles. So we just want to make it really easily readable, easy to skim, easy to find the information on. Not very fancy. Let's talk about portfolios and personal websites for a minute. These can be really helpful in tech recruiting, especially if you're looking for some of those more creative role. But employers are going to expect to be able to view your work. For coding heavy roles. Maybe this includes a GetHub account with independent or open source projects that you've worked on. It's also important to, just like a creative resume that the personal website reflects your brand as we like to call it. We want to keep it simple, nothing too flashy. Here's a couple of examples that you can see And so really thinking about helping, using this to highlight who you are and the work that you do. Really important when you're building your portfolio. There's a few things you want to keep in mind. First, to create a brand that we've been talking about a little bit trying to carry through your entire application, that brand, whether that similar colors for your resume and your portfolio to kind of tie it all together. We want to include what's relevant. Make sure you're considering the quality over quantity. So I'd rather see three projects that you're really proud of. And that will be, well, displayed than six projects that are just ok So thinking about tailoring those projects, What do you want to have on there that's going to highlight your ability to do the work. Another note about relevance, don't forget your contact information. It might also make sense to have a copy of your resume on the website as well. Sometimes we forget to put that contact info on the website when we're designing something. Make sure they have contexts in your portfolio as well. So we don't just want to list the projects, but want to talk about what the project was. What was your specific contribution? How did you make decisions throughout and what were the results are the end products. This information can give employers a lot more info about who you are and what your process is. It's achieve. Think about, is this portfolio effective as achieving what you want it to? And easy way to do. That is to do a little bit of user testing. Have your friends, your family, your faculty member, take a look at it, for you let them know and let you know what they think about it. What are they learning about you as they're looking at these experiences, we want to make sure it's always up-to-date and accurate. And as a final note, make sure that you're pushing that out to employers. You can put this in the heading of your resume to include on your application when it's ready to view and make sure to test your resume length before you. send them in as well. Let's see. Yeah, I see a couple of questions in the chat can you include your page on a website for the personal web site section, for instance, media. I am unsure Quinn, what you mean by that. If you could clarify what it looks like, Meghan answered, yeah. Yeah. We can include any web page that you have it That's relevant on your resume, even if it's a personal web page that has professional things on there, you're welcome to add that too I think that's what you meant by that Okay, Let's talk a little bit about the interview process. A lot of software engineering positions do start with the coding challenge to gauge your skills. Sometimes that's something that they just send you to a place to take this coding challenge. Usually these are take home challenges that you do on your own time just to gauge your skill set. It's really common to see these on popular sites like HackerRank that I was talking about earlier. Though, they send you to do a coding challenge and then they can take a look at your work. The next thing that you'll usually have is a screening interview. This is the first time you're speaking to an employee. You can expect questions about your resume and kind of fit with the company. In position, it's common to be done by, done by a recruiter. You can also expect some easier technical questions about fundamental some times. Folks will fans that technical, technical folks to do that first interviews to just be prepared that you may be also answering more technical questions than that. But oftentimes you'll see that screening first fiery career, and then move into that technical portion. The technical interview is generally performed by a professional. So be prepared for tougher questions and doing them via white board or kind of case style. Sometimes you will be doing these virtually and you'll be sharing your screen. Sometimes if they're an in-person, you may literally standing next to a whiteboard writing things down. So just be prepared to work through those things. And we're going to talk more about that in just a minute. The onsite interview is usually the final step in the process. So this usually includes three to six back-to-back interviews and sometimes the lunch interview with travel being restricted right now, we may still be expecting virtual this year. Last, the last two years or so, most folks have been doing this virtually. We do have some employers were thinking about doing some in-person interviewing, so we will see what happens. We're not quite sure what it's going to look like at this point this year. But I do expect that back-to-back interview at the end of that interview process, whether that's in-person or virtually where you're going to be meeting with a number of different people. So first off, behavioral, when we're talking about behavioral interviews, these are those questions like, Tell me about a time you used your analytical skills or tell me about a time you failed. Behavioral interviews are trying to get out what you've done in the past to predict how you might do it in the future. The best way to approach these questions is with kind of a show don't tell approach using the star method. So in the star method, you're giving a brief overview of what the situation was, what the task involved was, or what you were assigned to do. So the situation could be during my internship or in this project team, I was working in the task. We were working on, whatever this task was. That's really just kind of setting up your answer. And then actions. We want to share what we did and how we did it. So making sure to think about what you did personally, what were the actions that you took, and then the results. What happened as a result it That's where... were you successful in your program, was the client happy. Did the conflict get resolved? What were the results of that? It is probably going to be helpful for you to plan ahead and start to think about how you might share some examples of the work that you've done. And brain some, some story, brainstorm some stories. Make sure to think about things like challenges you faced, mistakes you've made, how you've made decisions. What might you change if it didn't go so well? Or if you knew thou what you didn't know, then. So really thinking about, I would say try to come up with three different products or three team situations to think through some of these questions for yourself. You should also be prepared for some of these fit questions. Why are you interested in this company making sure that you're going in and doing research about the organizations you can talk knowledgeably about why you're interested. Those kinds of pieces are really helpful as you prepare for this type of an interview. You know, why are you passionate about technology? Why do you like this type of role or versus all of the other roles out there. Thinking really in depth about why you want this position, why you want to work with this company, can be really helpful for you to prepare for. And that behavioral interview section. I'd encourage you to check out Cornell career services new Canvas modules, they've been up for about a year now in the Career Development toolkit, There's a really good module on interviewing that can help you get started and there are other workshops coming up. So keep an eye out for some of those, if you want to talk a little bit more about behavioral interviewing, we can also always help you in any of the career offices either talk through interviews of practice, the behavioral interviews. Let's talk coding. So the technical interview. Technical interviews are really here for folks to be able to evaluate your ability to solve problems. that you've never seen before, these are meant to be challenging, so don't panic if they seem really difficult. Sometimes folks will start off easy and give you more and more difficult challenges as you go through. And that's okay. You're not expecting you to be perfect. They're not expecting you to be able to solve everything. They want to see how you work and brainstorm through these problems. It can be challenging to do this the first time. So I would recommend trying to be able to practice this a little bit. You're expected to talk through the problem and explain your thought process as you're going, which can be a new concept for folks, you don't often do that. You might be asked to write code out on a whiteboard, or again, through sharing your screen, maybe in a Google Doc or even the white board on Zoom, which is a little clunky, but can be helpful to practice then as a general tip, it is easy to hear typing on a video call. So if you're sharing your screen with an interviewer and they hear typing, but they don't, the you typing anything, they're going to assume you're Googling the answer. So be careful. making sure that you are really showing all the work as you're going sharing that screen and thinking about how you're answering that question when we're looking at it virtual. Through the coding interview, they're really trying to assess these things like your analytical skill. You're coding skill, your technical knowledge and your knowledge of computer science fundamentals and if haven't reviewed your fundamentals. And while it's a good idea to go back through, make sure you're refreshing yourself. They're looking to see what kind of experience you have. And then they're also trying to see how your going to fit as you're working with them. Are you someone that easy to talk to? Can you communicate well with them that fit piece, it's still part of that coding technical interview. Things to remember each candidate is given the same question So if it's tough for you, it's probably tough for everyone else. Do your best. Remember that you can't write a perfect code. So we want to strive to get it as clean as possible and avoid using pseudo code when you can. We really want to think about writing out that code for yourself. It's also important to note that interviewers will generally allow you to choose what language you code in. So go with the one you're most comfortable with, you're going to find that one to be the easiest to talk through and write out. Some other roles that do have technical interviews. Not just software engineering or hard-coding position. These are some of those roles, project management, web design, UX, UI design. These are generally case study type questions like, how would you design an alarm clock for the blind? Or you'd be asked to critique an app or a website. Remember that these can come at any time in the interview process. They could be on the spot during the phone interview or a take-home assignment after the phone interview. Or could be whiteboarding or document sharing tasks like, like those coding ones are that we just talked about. In general, you want to focus on your customer. What are their needs? Make sure you're clarifying if you make any assumptions throughout and want the interview through your thought process, every thought, remember dimension, how you would approach the problem kind of your initial assumption, then why you made them walking through kind of that brainstorming process or thought process you have as you're solving those problems. And then those final results of taking those steps. They really want to learn about how you problem-solve and how you think through things. Okay, Let's talk about next steps and we got through that way faster than I thought we were going to. Alright, next step, handshake. Make sure that your career interests are filled out and your profile section of handshake. Employers can sort through by folks who are interested in that type of work. And we also then sometimes targeted e-mails to folks depending on the industry or vision that they have listed in their interest area. If you haven't completed the on-campus recruiting tutorial yet, you definitely want to do that. You can find a link to all sorts of places in the career development tool kits. You can go and look in there and look for OCR on campus recruiting. Or it's also on career.cornell.edu website. There's a link right there, for you you do want to complete that the OCR tutorial, It's basically a quick review of our on-campus recruiting policies. You just go through the PowerPoint really fast. You have a little kind of quiz thing at the end. And then we will mark you as. Eligible for on-campus recruiting. Do make sure that you do that if you haven't done that yet. in Handshake, you can also browse employers who are coming to different fairs. You can look for info sessions that are coming up from different employers or coffee chat. We've had some really great coffee chats with lots of different companies throughout time. At this point, some of them are virtual, but still some great virtual events for you to check out and the Events tab on Handshake. And then apply for opportunities. That is your go-to first place that you should be looking for those internship opportunities. And if you haven't navigated that before, feel free to make an appointment with your career office, we can help you do that. Schedule a meeting with us, meet with a career advisor either in Cornell career services or your college office to go over your strategy, talk through your materials. We are happy to review your resume and cover letter, especially geared towards a specific job so you can really work on targeting those application material to that role. And we also do behavioral interview practice. We don't do technical interviews, but we've got some great resources for preparing, preparing for technical interviews. You want some of that. But we are not that skilled so will do do the behavioral interviews, but not the technical interviews. A lot of folks find it helpful in terms of technical interviews to practice with friends. There are some great resources out there that we're happy to share with you where you can practice some of that as well. And then networking, reconnect with your existing network if you have already, have some folks that you've met with previously, update them on what you did this past summer, what you're looking for Coming up next. keeping connected to those folks. Reaching out to alumni, who are working at your target organizations again CUeLinks and Linkedin can be great places for that. There is a networking overview workshop coming up in a couple days that I have listed on the next slide, just in case you're interested in doing a little bit of a deeper dive into actually networking. And prepare that personal pitch for different fairs or for when you are meeting somebody in an elevator, what do you want them to know about you? What are your interest areas? These pitches can be great. Also if you're attending any info sessions, telling somebody just a little bit about yourself and why you're interested in their organization. That's what we're talking about when we talk about personal pitches. So these are some great next steps for you to be thinking about. Just a listing of some of the upcoming events on Handshake, that networking event that I talked about, is coming up Tuesday of next week from noon to one. And there's actually a couple of coming up in the next few months. It looks like they're doing it monthly. So take a look at Handshake If that's something that you want to dive a little bit deeper into. We've got a Cover letter workshop coming up. Arts and Sciences is doing resume reviews at the Tatkon Center Monday and Tuesday of next week from seven to nine. If you want to have your resume reviewed quickly, that's a great place to come and do it. And we do have one tech talk coming up from Censys, so feel free to take a look at that. All of these are posted on Handshake, so keep an eye on Handshake to see if there are any events that are coming up that you're really interested in learning more about getting involved in. So question time, I'm going to open my video up again, just in case. And if you have questions, feel free to put them in the Q and a box. We'll give you a second. Sometimes it takes a minute. Oh great. And I see that Meghan in the chat box, put the Canvas module link in there. Yep and we will be posting that up on the website once it is transcribed and I'm going to send that out to folks who attended as well. So you at least have the slides and you've got the links that are clickable in here. Well, any questions from anyone? We went through a lot very quickly.