Okay, I am going to mute my video just to make sure that I don't have any crashing happening and we will jump into the presentation. So some of the things that we're going to talk about today, we are going to talk about doing a little bit more job and internship searching if you are someone who doesn't have a summer job or internship yet, but wants one. But we'll talk a little bit about that. And then we're going to talk a little bit more about building your own summer experience, thinking about setting goals for yourself and the different ways that you could develop professionally. So we will jump right in and get started. So first off, let's talk about summer jobs and internships. It's not too late if you're interested in having a more structured experience, looking for an internship or a part-time or full-time summer job. You can certainly still be looking for those things. There are still organizations and companies that will be looking for help this summer that hadn't posted earlier that are posting now. That's something that you can continue to look into when you are looking for some of these experiences. Remember that it doesn't have to be a formal experience, a formal internship experience for you to build some professional skills. Any summer job that you get will be something that will build up your skills professionally. So it doesn't have to be a formal internship. If you're going to be looking for some of this work, some of you may be location bound at this point, so it can be helpful at times to look or positions in your current location. You can still look for things on websites like handshake, LinkdIn, idealist as a non-profit site. Lots of different places that you could be looking for some of these experiences. One thing to take note of as you're looking for some of these experiences is that you need to make sure that it's actually an experience for this summer. We do have organizations that are hosting experiences for spring or fall of next year. So when you just want to make sure as you're looking, that you are looking for a summer 2021 experience. You can use the keyword search to just type in summer 2021 to make sure that you're hitting those if you're having trouble finding them, as well as any other keywords that you're looking at. This image that you see here is from Handshake. You can do this kind of thing and many of the different search sites, one thing to pay attention to that will also help you in your search. In Handshake. If you click on this relevance button here, you can change this to an application deadlines sort and that will sort things so that you see things that are still open and available so that you're not wasting your time scrolling through things that maybe have a past date. They just haven't been taken down yet. So something to think about as you are looking for those experiences. The other thing you can be thinking about doing is looking at some different remote search sites. If you are location bound for the summer, maybe you already moved home, or you decided your stay in Ithaca for that time but you haven't been able to find something local. You can look for some different remote experiences. These are just a few sites that host remotes experiences. A lot of these will be full-time internships or full-time experiences that you can be looking into. Coveintern, for instance, has experiences in software engineering and product management, design, marketing, non-profit type work, government works. So some of these are a little bit more open ended, whereas others are a little more focused. Idealist.org, for instance, is a non-profit specific site that you can be looking for volunteer or job opportunities on. So don't discount that virtual experience you, all have started to learn how to do that very well this semester. When you are taking all, you're classes virtually so you'll kind of get into that mindset already. So I'm going to be, we're recording this presentation and we will be sending this to folks who attended with some of these links in them so that you can take a look at them if you want to. Entrepreneurship at Cornell is another great place to be looking. I wanted to highlight that a little bit here. When you're on entrepreneurship at Cornell sites, they have a number of different kinds of opportunities, internships, part-time and full-time positions, volunteering experiences. You can go to eship.cornell.edu. And you'll see that you see this red circle here if you click on Cornell startups and then go down to startup job opportunities, that's going to show you the different options that they have. Entrepreneurship at Cornell is a site that post these experiences. For different startups. A lot of them are actually started by Cornell alum as well. So you can make some really great connections. From looking at those things. You'll see lots of different positions still posted there. Some of the deadlines are coming up, so I would take a look at those if you have a chance. Some still in early June. I haven't seen many past early June, so do make sure you take a look at that soon, if that's something that's interesting to you. So now we're going to talk a little bit more about building your own summer. This is really the meat of this presentation. It is okay to not have a formal internship this summer. There are lots of different ways that you can be developing professionally. So we're going to talk a little bit about some tips that will help you as you build your own summer experience. First off, starting to think about what you're trying to get out of the summer is going to be really important. Really take some time to think about the skills that you want to develop. What kinds of things do you want to learn this summer? Are there any gaps in your current experiences that you want to fill or any skills that you need to learn to be more marketable or next year when you're going to be applying for different kinds of internships. Do you want to gain a foreign language competency? Do you want to explore different career industries, really think about what your goals are for the summer. Be creative and proactive. Think about the unique skills that you have to offer and who might benefit from that knowledge. We're going to talk about reaching out and connecting with people to see if you can be of assistance to them. So this is something that's going to be helpful for you to be thinking about, what is it that you have to offer? Be flexible. There's no one size fits all experience, a try mixing and matching some of these things that we're going to be talking about today to really flush out that summer experience for yourself. And don't be afraid to talk with your college career office or Cornell career services if you want some help brainstorming around what your summer might look like. We are here to help you and we are still taking appointments through the whole summer during regular business hours. So you're welcome to talk with us if you want to do a little bit more brainstorming and goal-setting.   Were going to talk a little bit about some of the things that you could be doing instead of a full-blown internship or job this summer. One of them is micro internships. Micro internships are short-term paid professional assignments that are similar to those given to new hires or interns for different companies. They are a great way to gain new skills. Put your academic knowledge into action, build up your portfolio, and be able to better demonstrate your skills to future employers. This is also a great way to explore different career paths. You can get a better understanding of the work that you might be doing in a specific industry. Try it out, see if you're going to enjoy that type of work. And you can also build some networks within that industry. Micro internships are generally shorter experiences, so most of these are going to be project-based. They usually range between five to 40 hours of work. So some of that you might be able to do in a week, some might take a little bit longer, These are competitive paid opportunities. So we do recommend if you haven't gotten your resume looked at by your college career office or Cornell career services. Feel free to set up appointment, an appointment to have us take a look at that. You can find some of these micro internships. There are a few still posted on Handshake, although less than last year. Parker Dewey is another great site where you could be searching for micro internships that you can be doing remotely. And these projects, generally with Parker Dewey, you can also list your project afterwards on your resume as an independent consultant for Parker Dewey. So those projects are pieces of things that you could be highlighting on future applications. And they also will allow you to connect up with folks in the industry so that you can start to build that network, it can be a great experience. Freelance and gig work. These are some other things that you could be doing more on a part-time basis if you wanted to during the summer. A gig worker basically is a broad term used to describe any independent worker including freelancers. Gig workers are not generally heard his employees, so you're not going to be hired by a company. It's more of a contract work that you would be doing. Most when we're looking at gig work, kind of the difference between freelancing versus gig work. Gig work is generally shorter term projects that you can find that you might be working on. You would still apply, yo work on that project, get hired, but it's a shorter term experience. Freelancing generally is also known as an independent contractor. Folks who do freelance work often have longer relationships and will kind of keep working for organization. But not necessarily. So just some things to think about. You can be doing some part-time freelance or part-time gig work, where you can be working on your own projects, kind of on your own pace. Some good places to find. some of these opportunities are places like Upwork, fiber, freelancer, we've got a few of them listed here. There are also some other industry to specific sites that you could be looking at. So if you need help finding some of those types of things, again, check with your career office and we can help you look into some of though, this type of work. Up here. We just have a little image of Fiber and Upwork. You can see when you go on to these sites, you can often look by industry or skills or different projects. So there's different ways to search this, these types of sites. One thing to know if you aren't getting some of these projects through a site. Some of them do take a percentage of the pay that you would be receiving. So make sure you're paying attention to kind of the the ins and outs of how they, how they do business and the things that you might need to know. There's a lot of good information on that website that you can look at in terms of how to get, how you could be getting projects and the different financial things that you need to take into consideration. If you are a freelancer gig work. The other thing to make sure you do is pay attention to the amount of money that you're making. You will have to track that so that you can put that into your taxes for next year. So just something to think about as you're looking at those experiences. The Forage is something that wanted to share with you all this and virtual experience that is not paid. So the Forage is a great site where you can go and do different kinds of projects. You're going to be gaining practical skills as you go. And you're maybe working for Fortune 500 companies. So the Forage provide students the ability to work on projects and they mirror the work that you would do for a regular client. You can prepare yourself, leverage those skills that you learned during your next internship. Some of the companies also use these types of projects in the pipeline for finding future intern candidates. So it can be a great way to get a foot in the door at an organization that you want to work for. These programs are free for all students and they cover a variety of topics depending on the experiences that you select. So you can be gaining practical skills by working on these real life projects that you can pitch to different organizations and compare them to the solutions that that organization created itself. So you can kind of learn what other things the organization is doing and that particular project. This is a great way to connect with recruiters and build up those skills. And you can get certificates from these types of projects that you can add to your resume or your CV or your LinkedIn account. Volunteering is another really great way for you to be gaining experiences this summer. When you're thinking about volunteering. This is something that you could do locally. This is something you could do in a remote type situation. Volunteering is a great way to build up your skills, pursue something that you're passionate about. You can network, network with other non-profit leaders in your community and create your own volunteer opportunities, or some have volunteer opportunities that are already posted. And you can pick up some of those pre-post of projects that are up there. There are some different ways that you can find some of these volunteering opportunities. So one of that is looking locally at non-profits in your community. You can find non-profits in your community either for the Chamber of Commerce website. If you just Google search Chamber of Commerce and the town that you're going to be in, you should be able to find it. They will often have a business directory listed. You can take a look at the different non-profits in the area through that business directory to see if there are any that you're interested in working for. This isn't going to be necessarily a job search boards. So once you find that organization that's interesting to you, you're going to have to go directly to that organization's website. On their website, sometimes you'll find volunteer opportunities posted. Sometimes you'll find a contact person who you can communicate with. Really think about, this is one of those places where you can really think about what it is that you have to offer. What are some of those skills that you could bring to the table to help? In this particular organization. Other places that you can find volunteering opportunities are through Idealist.org. Again, that is one of those non-profits search sites. And there you could be searching for either internships and jobs or volunteer opportunities. So just make sure that you're paying attention to whether your in the volunteer search or the job search so that you know if you're going to be paid or not Volunteermatch is another great website that you could go to to be looking at different opportunities. And Catch a Fire is another website that you can be looking at for more project-based volunteering. Most of this is done remotely. So I have an image of Catch a Fire up here. This might be something that would be interesting to you. On Catch a Fire you can choose the project that you want to work on, as you can see on this image here. Some of them are really quick project, like a one-hour phone call to talk a little bit more about here, different kinds of marketing material that somebody might want to put together. Or you'll see things like this second project that's lifted, That's afford a nine week long project where they're asking someone to set up a website. This is a great place if you just have a little bit of time, self schedule, and think about those, those projects you want to work on and those skills that you want to build up. So Catch a Fire is another great place to be looking. Another thing that you can be doing with your summer is looking at doing your own independent projects. This could be exploring your own potential independent research or study. You can have a discussion with faculty in your area of academic interests and brainstorm with them. If there's something that you want to be looking into. You could be designing your own program app, thinking about really building up those, skills doing your own projects. When we're looking at software engineering, when we're looking at UX design, a lot of times the thing that's going to help you stand out from others is that you'd have some projects that you've been working on in the summer is a great time for you to be working on some of those projects and developing your own ideas. These are things that you could be then using on the project section of your resume or in your portfolio that you're going to be sharing with people. Hackathons and other kinds of competitions also happening through the summer. So a Hackathon is basically an event where people come together to solve a problem. Some of these are more tech based, but there are other hacker Hackathons that are not as tech based. Usually these are competitions where you would form or join a team and try to create a project, a product over the course of a couple of days. And then at the end of the competition, your team generally would present the product to judges. Winners often get prizes. Hackathons can be focused on specific topics. So education, technology, or companies can come in and set up a challenge for teams to compete in. This can be a great thing for you to be looking into, to build up those skills. Creating your own website or blog can be another great thing for you to be doing or polishing up the GitHub account or any kind of other online portfolio that you're working on. These are all great uses of your summer. Some of you may also be doing some larger scale research next year, your senior thesis work or junior paper research, you can always get a start on those types of projects as well. This is where that creativity, piece will come in. Thinking about those independent projects you could work on. Self- Education is another great way to use your summer. There are a lot of different ways that you can continue to build up skills and build up knowledge in your industry. One of the best ways for us as Cornell students, when you have free, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning Online Library, As a Cornell student you can go in, you can sign up for different self-paced course. Some of these are certificate courses, some of them are not. You can go in and learn a new skill. Maybe you're interested in going into finance, but you don't really have a great handle on Excel. You could be taking a course on modeling in Excel and really build up those skills that employers are going to be looking for for next year. Maybe you are interested in consulting and want to start learning a little bit more about basic business structures or different  models. These are things that you could be looking at in terms of courses. Linkedin Learning is one great place. Again, that's free for Cornell students. There are also other free online courses that you could be looking into Coursera, EdX, Code Academy, Udacity. A lot of these platforms do have free courses that you could be taking. Sometimes you can't get the certificate without paying, but that's okay. You can still build up your knowledge and some of them do have certificates that you can get for completing those experiences. Studying for your entry exams is another great use of your summer and that self education. Area, maybe you're getting ready for the GRE or the MCAT This is going to be some really good time that you can use to get a head-start on studying for those exams. Also think about preparing for next year's internship. Serve. So not only can you build up yourself, but you can also start preparing for the technical interview side. So maybe the technical interviews in software engineering, learning how to code on the fly and practice some of those coding. Heavy techniques that you might need for interviewing or practicing for again, consulting interviews where you can learn how to do case interview a and practice that lots of different things that you can do in terms of that self education. One thing to know about for some of the courses online, there are also things that you can apply for so that you can get the certificate, even if you don't have the money to get a certificate. So take a look at some of those courses online. If there's something that you really are interested in, they do sometimes have financial aid for some of those types of experiences, the ones that do cost money. Another thing that you can be doing this summer is building up your professional network. When we are looking at networking, this is really all about talking with people in the industry, learning a little bit about their own experience, their own journey. Learning a little bit more about the different aspects of the industry that you're interested in. Networking is one of the best ways to do this. It's really helpful when you're exploring different career possibilities to know the ins and outs of different positions within an industry so that you can have a better idea of those things that you might be the most interested in. This is a two-way process, it involves developing and maintaining connections with different people So that you can continue to talk with them and check in with them as time goes on. When you are looking to build your professional network. This can either be a great way to develop a little bit more knowledge around that industry or to kind of get prepare or that job searching that you're going to be doing for next summer or the internship, searching our job searching. So making those connections at the companies that you're interested in. You can reach out to folks through CUeLINKS or through LinkedIn. Find a Cornell a lot more doing cool things and talking with them a little bit more about their experience. When you reach out, you're going to want to chat a relay. Tell them a little bit about you, a little bit about why you're reaching out to them being specific. Maybe they did an internship during their junior year that looks really cool and you want to know a little bit more about that experience. Maybe they shifted from one industry to another and you're curious what the differences were and then what took them. Just being specific about why you're reaching out to them and letting them know what you're looking for. Are you hoping to set up a conversation with them? Do you have a specific question you want to ask them? Generally, we recommend that you do ask for a conversation. When you're thinking about doing that networking, that first, initial reach out can be really challenging and a lot of students don't want to do it. But if you're reaching out to say to them, not, "Hey, can you get me a job?" But "I'm really interested in this area and I see this cool thing that you've done. I wondered if you might be able to talk with me about it." They're much more likely to get back to you and respond. And then you're able to have that conversation with them and ask them questions. Your career office or Cornell Career Services, are great folks to work with as well. If there are certain types of industries you want to explore through networking, or if you're not quite sure how to reach out or not quite sure what that initial email should say Or the questions you should ask. We are here to support you and getting prepared for something like that. And there is a workshop coming up a little bit later in the summer chat series on July 13th. That you can also attend around networking if that's something that's interesting to you. But we are here to support you with that before then. Other things that you can be doing with your summer is really delving in a little bit more to this career exploration and planning process. What you're looking at here is a little bit of what we didn't do in Career Services to help you to do some of this exploring. We can talk to you a little bit more about self-reflection. When you're looking for careers that are a good fit, you definitely want to understand your interests, your values, your strengths, the goals that you have. We can help you to explore these a little bit for yourself. Other things that you can be doing this summer. Is some of this industry research. We have a lot of great resources out there that allow you to explore different industries, different jobs within different industries. Some of the resources that will be great for you to use Vault is one of the resources we have that you can find on the Cornell Career Services website, Vault has interviews that had been done with both and different profession. We have huge Vault guides that you didn't read it a little bit more about various industries and various jobs within that industry. Also guides that can help you prepare for interviews within those industries. So you can learn a little bit more about what that might typically look like and how to prepare well. Glassdoor is a great place for you to be looking at different companies and doing company research. So learn a little bit more about organizations that you might want to work for. Glassdoor can also be a great place for you to prepare or interviews and things like that. So really doing that, industry research to, you know, what's out there and what's available to you. And exploring a little bit more. So that you can then direct your search as you are starting to plan for future professional development. You can also work on preparing your materials for your next job search. So depending on the industry that you're in, you may be looking very soon for internships for next year. You can be working on your resume and cover letter. You could be working on preparing for interviews and doing practice interviews with your career office to make sure that you're really on point for the next round of application. So we are here to support you, as far as content goes. Just to recap things that you can remember that you can do with your summer 1 first, just consider your goals. What is it that you want to do this summer? What do you want to gain? What are those skills that you need to build up? What kinds of things do you want to learn? Taking that step to consider what your goals are is going to be really helpful as you start to build up your summer experience. Remember, be creative. When you're thinking outside the box, really think about those opportunities that might be out there. Maybe there's an organization that could really use your skill set. Think about what your skill set is and how you could offer that up. Voluntary type situation. Make sure that you're proactive. When you are building your own adventure for the summer, it's going to be important for you to take those steps to reach out. It's a little bit more work than just looking for a job or internship on a job search site. But it can pay off big and the end. So make sure that you're being proactive in reaching out. Be flexible,  mix and match some of these things that we've talked about. If you're already working part-time or full-time for the summer, there are certainly some things that you can be doing around your job where you can be building upscale. And make sure you use your resources. You'll get a. The resources that we talked about in this workshop today. So that you can take a little bit more of a deep look at them, but also make sure that you're using your career office. Again, we're here all summer. We are happy to have meetings with you and help you plan and help you set up what this experience is going to look like. And we can also steer you in different directions depending on your industry of interest. We can talk with you a little bit more about some of the skills that you're going to need or how to find those skills that you're going to need from future job searches. And then brainstorm ways for you to be able to build up those skills this summer to make sure that you set an appointment if you have the time. We are doing them virtually and we are happy to help. So I'm going to open it up to questions and I'm actually going to also stop my screen share so I can see you all. All right. Does anybody have any questions about the things that we've covered today? I know we just ran through a lot very quickly. Yes. I'm writing my portfolio Uh, so just I need someone to look at. Okay. What kind of portfolio are you working on? Yes,  just like I did like team project T. I walk sanitize, shape this. I did some consulting logs So just I'm walking on a, so I need someone to look at. Before I like posted some like website oh, you know. Sure. What college are you in? Okay. So you can talk with the folks in your career office. You can always set up an appointment with them and they can take a look at some of your application materials, your resume and cover letters. They can take a look at some of that portfolio work that we're talking about as well. The other thing that would be beneficial is to reach out to some of your professors, professors to look at specifically the portfolio piece there, the industry experts as some of the industry experts as well. So they can meet great people to be looking at those portfolios for you.  Okay Thank you. You're welcome.  Any other questions. Tips for making a LinkedIn.  Yes! So when we're looking at LinkedIn, one of the one great place for you to go if you all haven't been to the Career Development toolkit on Canvas yet. That can be a great place for you to be looking for some kind of intros in terms of resume writing or that beginning of networking and LinkedIn that's a great place for you to be getting a little bit more information. We, in the networking section, the networking module, there's some really good tips around making a LinkedIn. Linkedin, the biggest thing is to make sure that you're flushing it out and kind of curating your story when you're going through LinkedIn and you will want to have a picture because folks generally don't look at profiles, that don't have pictures. And there are certain sections that we want to make sure you fill out that about me section, getting your experiences. And a lot of times folks will transfer their experiences right from their resume into LinkedIn in to make sure that there's a little bit of consistency image so that you can see the different things that you've done. The great thing about LinkedIn, as you can also upload websites or videos or projects that you've been working on and have them attached right to the experience. So there are some cool things that you can do with LinkedIn. But take a look at the Career Development Toolkits. That will be a great place for you to get started. Benna Does that answer your question? Does any one else have any question? Okay. We're going to hang out for a couple minutes. incase folks want to ask questions while others aren't around. And we are we've recorded this and we will be transcribing it and posting it on the website, as well as sending it out to folks who participated today. So you are welcome to kind of take a look and use some of the links that are in the presentation. Thank you for coming. Feel free to sign off. And we will hang out for a couple more minutes to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.