And. We'll go ahead and get started. So welcome everyone. My name is Mia Ferina. I use she her pronouns and I am the public service careers coach. In our central Cornell career services office so what that means in more simple terms is that I meet with students from all across the university. Regardless of what they study or what program or college they're in. So I see everybody and then particular people who are interested in things like working for government or nonprofits or really on any sort of like social issue sustainability, education I'm happy to support those folks in particular have a little more knowledge in that area so that's you feel free to reach out. Okay. And Ellen and I both have sleeping dogs behind us today, so bear with us if there's any Russell in the meantime, but, I'll pass it over to Ellen to introduce her. No, thank you, Mia. So good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you guys are coming from. My name is Ellen Murphy and I'm the associate director of business master's programs in the S. Johnson College of Business. So like, yeah, I am also a career advisor. However, my population is the students that are MPS Dyson and MPS Johnson. So I just focus on business students and I'm really excited to get to meet all of you and share these common resources. I also, if you're in the College of Business, I also take lead on our international programming on Adams communications. So should we go ahead? And I guess just, affirming piece of context, if you are not from the College of Business, that's perfectly okay. Absolutely. That's why I'm here as well. There's probably lots of. Masters of engineering public health, all sorts of people from all over campus. So you're not in the wrong place. This is just who we had to present. So. We will introduce you to your. Specialized support. Later in the presentation, we have a whole slide of where you can reach out to depending on your program. So, today we're going to discuss, this developing your focus part of the development cycle. It is really important. However, we find lots of times that students are kind of more in the take action. They're ready to do applications. They're ready to do cover letters and resumes and interviews. But they haven't fully done the exploring their options. So that's what we want to talk about today and the resources that can help you. For the next slide. Thank you. So. What grad school is and what it is not. So academically speaking, obviously the purpose of graduate education is to provide you individuals with an in depth understanding of a specific topic area. We all know that. But there's also a lot of other benefits from obtaining an advanced degree, the network, creating a network in your desired field and career advancements, you know, many positions now do require a master's degree, greater earning potential credibility. In a field, research opportunities. Graduate school can give you access to advanced equipment and tools. The opportunity to study or work under leaders in your field. You could travel, travel, you know, there's so many things that Graduate education gives you. However, one thing that it does not necessarily provide you with is the answer to what should I do with my life, right? Graduate school does not automatically scare you into a specific job and sometimes not even into a specific industry. So while it does prepare you for possible careers, it's not going to tell you, you know, exactly what you're job title should be or what jobs you should. Apply for. And that can be hard to hear but me and I are going to talk about a lot of tools that can help. You really focus in on what it is that you want to do when you're done with your graduate education. And I think that, you know, this idea of what you're gonna do, it can be changing, right? Your focus can change as your education goes on. But one thing that students you know, think is if I'm open to everything. Then it will be easier to job search and in fact it's the opposite. So the more that we can kind of pair down and focus in on a target. These easier it is going to be. For you. Okay. The reason why we're doing this session today and July when your program doesn't start for another month or so. Is that your programs are usually pretty short. So some of you are in master's programs that are a single year or maybe 2. We might have some PhDs joining us today. As well. So you have a little bit more time, but, ultimately the timeframe in which you have to. Figure out some of the things, you're interested in and get some skills to work towards that. It's ultimately not a super long time. So especially if you have any. Visa concerns or, financial limitations, things like that. You'll want to get started on those questions of What do I want to do in my career and start? Developing skills and talking to people in those areas. Sooner rather than later. So that's why we're hosting this before you even get to campus. And hopefully that'll give you some context to get started. So if you're coming here today saying. I don't even know where to begin. That's why we're here. We're gonna start by helping you define what career or various paths you might be interested in. Like Ellen said, you want to narrow your focus a little bit. So that you're not overwhelmed by applying to all these different things. But it's okay if you apply for a couple of different areas. So that's why I have careers. So we'll go into that a little bit more, some tools to help you define what you're interested in. First and foremost, I think the Career Development Toolkit is a wonderful resource. This is something that. We as career advisors at Cornell made for Cornell students. So that is a really good tool that you, have access to 24 7. 365 days a year. To answer lots of different questions you might have. One of the very first modules is about career exploration that's why I'm linking this here but it covers lots of different topics. You'll probably hear me mention this toolkit a few different times in the presentation today. But there is a module back exploration. There's one for current grab students. If you happen to be an international student as well, there's a module for that. So definitely a tool worth. Checking out. And I will. Put the link in the chat, in a little bit here. So I want to show you, this website called Own It. It is a really great tool. If my internet cooperates, I'll walk you through this, but I wanted to at least, put some screenshots on here. ONET is essentially government data about different jobs. That is you know reliable because it's government data and also it kind of provides you a. Generalized job description rather than a specific posting that's available right now. So if you're not sure what you're interested in, this can be a really good tool. Lip over to that. Window. And show you. A little bit more of what that looks like. So. There's a couple of different ways that you can. Search things. Everyone see my internet screen now? So there's a couple of different ways that you can search things. If there's something you know you're interested in, you can go ahead and type that in like chemical engineer for example. That's will show you kind of an overview of the job, some job titles that you might see. So sometimes people get stuck on just searching this one title that they think is most common and really it could be a lot of different things. So that can help you find postings that maybe you weren't originally. Seeing when you're actually job searching. But what I want to show you most in terms of figuring out what you want to do with your career. Is this task section up here at the top is a really great way to see. Generally speaking, what someone in this type of job would do. So you can see some different tasks here, you know, determine effective arrangement of operations, things like that. If you read this and you're like, Kind of what I want, but maybe not exactly. You can click this find occupations related to multiple tasks. And actually select which of these job duties you like. Versus do not like. So I'm just gonna. Pick a few for an example. But then you'll see it shows you things that are similar, in terms of overlapping. With those specific tasks that you selected. You'll see some of them have this little sun, or bright outlook next to them. That means this is a job field that's growing or, has currently experiencing a big boom. So that's a really helpful, tool. So that's a really helpful, tool. If you're, if you're nervous about job opportunities, you can look for the little sons and that might be an extra. The other way that you can. Search for things. On this site is by looking at. Things like career clusters or industries. So if you're like studying something a little bit more broad and you're not sure exactly what you want to go into. Say you select finance, you're studying something in that area, but I'm not sure where you want to take it. You can then just kind of browse. Haves and job titles within that area. So. You'll see there's banking, insurance, securities. It goes on for a while, but that is another way to kind of. Follow the trail of, okay, this is interesting, but I'm not sure exactly what the jobs might be. This is a really great tool to do that. So I'll end there. My little ONET tour. I'll put a couple links in the chat for you as well. But let me go back to the PowerPoint and. Let's see. And I threw the O. Nets and her toolkit in the link. Oh, thank you. It's trying to juggle too many screens at once here. So that's a really great tool to figure out what you might be interested in. And Ellen will tell you a little bit more about this LinkedIn tool. Alright, so there's the link. We're gonna talk about linked in Career Explorer. This is a tool that utilizes LinkedIn data to help uncover potential career paths and see how your skills meet match up with real jobs. So what LinkedIn is doing is it's taking all the information, all the job hostings within its own system. And, cross referencing that with the information that you put in. This is an excellent tool for getting, I just took a little screenshot. It gives you an idea of what skills might overlap with what you currently have on your LinkedIn. Profile. So they kind of market this tool for career changers. So that you can see common traits, but I think it's also excellent. In this example, I wrote, you know, I'm looking at digital marketing consultant and it gives you some skills that are really necessary for that field. And what I would challenge you is, you know, put in and review some of, some fields that you're interested in and see if you have these skill sets. See what kind of skills that might be. Transferable. I think that sometimes when students are, you know, they get on campus and right away there are career fairs or opportunities to talk to employers and they're like, I haven't really begun my program yet. I think it's important to remember that there's a lot of skills that are transferable. So, you know, maybe you worked in finance, but now you really want to go into digital marketing. You know, remember that communication is important. So that you can always talk about communication skills. So definitely try and out this LinkedIn career explorer and it also is really great if you look at the bottom here for finding connections on LinkedIn. So once you, you know, kind of PIN down, a career that might be interested to you, then you can find connections on LinkedIn by clicking this. Okay, so, TPT, I think we're all hearing about it. We're all maybe using it already. But I think that, you know, this is a great opportunity for us to take advantage of some new technology, right? You know, go on to chat GPT and enter your skills and interest, right? Right? You maybe you're not really sure what you want to do, but you know what your passions are and you know what you're good at. I'm just, you know, gave some examples like suggest careers for someone who likes data and sustainability. Or tell me more about different types of jobs in the finance industry. Type that into jet GPT and see what things it comes up with that might help you, you know, explore further. I just have some screenshots of some of the things that we looked up. I think the next one is about careers with like data and sustainability. You can see that right away, maybe you didn't have any idea what you would do with that, but it starts to give you some titles that we can start to work with. And in the next slide after, you know, I got these titles, I really honed in on one, the sustainable data analysis, excuse me. And I asked Chat GPT a couple of other questions like who hires these kind of data analysts and it gave me these answers, environmental nonprofits, sustainable investment and financial institutions, for example. And then I asked it, you know, what are the top skills? And it gave me an idea of the skills that I needed. And then I was kind of interested when it said that think tanks hire this type of data analyst. So I was kind of like, what big things higher? And chat GPT was able to give me some examples of think tanks that, hire someone who wants to do sustainable debt data. So as you can see, it's just a really kind of a rabbit hole that you can go down, but utilize this tool to see if you can, figure out how you can use your passion and interests. To find, a job or industry that would interest you. Okay, there is a another tool. Right, we're giving you so many tools. Pick whatever works for you and your brain. We've now talked about Oh, as a way to explore LinkedIn to give you suggestions, chat TBT will give you suggestions and now I'm showing you some Cornell specific data from the Cornell Outcomes Dashboard. No, not all of them master's programs are in this exact dashboard. Some, schools maintain something, separate for just their program, but this gives you a sense of, you know, after someone studies a certain topic, where do they then go on to work afterwards? So it'll show you. Employers that they work at. It'll show you average salary, geographic locations they end up in. So this can give you some good ideas. Maybe even employers to look at. It shows you how many people end up with a certain employer. So if you see, you know, the name of a certain company and there's the number 5 next to it. Maybe that's a company that recruits Cornell graduates often and would be a great place for you to, look into jobs there. So this is just another tool. The last tool that we want to share with you, is just this idea of networking in general. Now a lot of people hear the term networking and think about, referrals and, getting a specific, so a referral is a specific current employee of the company saying, I talked to Mia. She's wonderful. I recommend her for this job opening. Now, not all companies do that and, that's not the only purpose of networking. My honestly favorite part of networking is networking just to explore what your options might be and learn a little bit more. So you might hear the term coffee chat. Maybe you heard that at your undergraduate institution. That's a common phrase here at Cornell. But essentially it's what we would call an informational interview. So it's not an interview for a job. But rather an interview to. And I shouldn't even say interview a conversation really to learn about a person a company a certain career path. So, kind of what Ellen was talking about earlier. It's okay if you have multiple different kinds of industry interests. What you want to do is think about why you're interested in those different areas and maybe what questions you have that could help you. So, It's not just why you're qualified to do a certain type of work, but what questions do you have, that would help you determine maybe whether you want to be. Say data scientists versus a data analyst. They have slightly different roles. Maybe you might ask someone doing that work. So that you can make a more informed decision about what you would like. So you're asking for information, you're just learning some things, the link that's in these slides that will send out goes to a page in the toolkit specifically about informational interviews. But have some suggested questions. Ways to reach out, ways to find people. What you might say. So it really walks you through all those details, but we wanted to give you a sense of. What the possibilities are. You're gonna let them do a lot of the talking. You might have some questions coming in, but you really want to be absorbing information from them. This is a great opportunity to learn. And, aside from some of the, Filters that took it works if you do to find people to reach out to um some graduate programs also have their own linking group。 Um， so year book and just search you know whatever am in chicago and anyway um find a group for specific啊area。 Okay See you, Links is a current now specific networking tool. So in addition to something like LinkedIn, which you probably already heard of, if not used. See you, Links is a a platform with fewer people than LinkedIn. But the alumni who have graduated from Cornell and chosen to be in this platform want to help you. They opted in. They said, I want to help Cornell students. So I'm going to sign up for this platform. So you'll see there is over 9,000 alumni and see you, links. Certainly there is more than that on LinkedIn, but these are gonna be people who might be a little more responsive or if you're nervous about reaching out and this may be kind of a lower stakes place to find people. And also have some more personal filters. So, maybe you want to find someone, Let's say in the area of architecture, but who has experience with disability in the workplace? There's actually a filter for that and see, which you're not gonna find on LinkedIn. So it's a little bit more intimate. Fewer people, more personal topics sometimes so wanted to share this tool with you as an option as well. So now we've talked about. Figuring out what it is you want to do. And you're working towards your goal now. Okay, I figured it out. I'm moving forward. Certainly you're not going to do that and the hour that we have together today. We're just kind of giving you a preview of tools. To do this. So working towards your goal is what comes next. You want to figure out what kind of skills you need. So, we talked about ONET already. That is a great option. It tells you about different responsibilities you'd have and skills that would be required. First hand is a site that also has overviews of different, career areas, kinda similar to own it, but in a different format. So if you like that career areas kind of similar to own it but in a different format so if you like that Style, you can look there as well. Some people even just make a word cloud and copy and paste a bunch of job hostings in there. You could probably use AI for something like this as well. And see what words are common in the job posting. So you want to look for skills that are both. What we would call hard skills or tangible skills and soft skills. So something like Excel or Data Visualization is a hard skill. They want you to be able to do that task. Being a team player is a little bit harder to prove. That's more of an interpersonal people oriented skill, but you'll still have examples of where you've worked with the team before and you'll want to include that, you know, in your application materials and interviews to be able to, demonstrate that you have the skills that they're looking for. Yes, please do. Mia, can I jump in for one sec? Okay, so first hand I just put the link in there and that's where the bulk guides are within the library. So as Mia said, like it's a different, it's a different source. It's something that I really love. So I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna promote it for a second. If you go into firsthand, you'll find these, guides in the library and they outlined all different kinds of industries and jobs within that industry. I wanna talk about a couple of things that I think are really helpful. So one, if and I apologize if my examples are business because that's what I do, but you know, it can work for any, industry. Say you're looking at. I'm just gonna use marketing again. You're looking at marketing and you open the vote guide on marketing. It's gonna give you all of these different types of roles within the marketing industry. And you can read through and some of the information is pretty basic, but some of the information you might not, you might not know. If you get to the ends, one of the things that are really, you know, helpful is the guides will sometimes for specific industries say if you're looking for jobs, try these specific websites. So obviously LinkedIn, indeed, handshake. These are all great websites that sometimes industry and very specific websites that they always post in. The other thing that I think can be really helpful for students is it also will give you a list of professional in organizations or associations that people who work in this industry belong to. I would encourage you to check out those associations. Their websites are gonna have what's, you know, what are the hot topics in that field. They usually have a job board as well that you might be able to access even if you're not a member. And I always use it as a great place to network if there's somebody that's in, you know, on that associations. Website, why not reach out to them and let them know that you're a student and you're really interested in what they're doing. So I think that we're gonna move on to, developing skills and tools. So obviously. Oh, perfect. Perfect. Yes, I just I just went forward because you were already talking about professional associations. Be helpful. Yeah. So one thing that I think is great is that you have LinkedIn learning as a Cornell. Student free. And this link will show you how that you can register for it. So obviously your classes are what you're going to be focusing on. But there's opportunities here in LinkedIn learning, whether it's learning how to negotiate for a better salary. They have courses on that. Obviously your current answers are here to help you as well. But I've had students that say, as they're doing some research, they're talking to people. They're finding out that having a basic knowledge of like Python might be good. In the job search, they don't have to be an expert, but just kind of a basic knowledge. But they're not gonna have a flash in that. Here's an opportunity maybe over winter break or whatnot, you can use a LinkedIn learning class on Python and really kind of brush up some skills. Projects on the forage, this is a great opportunity, a website where you can work on projects and kind of if you don't have a. This is a great opportunity, a website where you can work on projects and kind of if you don't have a lot of work experience, you can put all of these new skills into use. We were just kind of talking about industry professional. Associations, student memberships, always they're usually on their websites. There's always a student membership that's at a very discounted cost. Sign up for their newsletters if they have webinars, sign up for those. And then internships and volunteering that see you links that, Mia went over is really helpful. Do we parker has small projects, they call them micro internships, a little bit of a cautionary for international students who might not be able to do those because it doesn't necessarily they're more project based but. Everyone can, you know, discuss that further with their career advisor, fiber and etc. And, volunteer match.org is a great way. Volunteering is a great way to get some experience. Especially because you are going to bring in skill sets that maybe these volunteer organizations just don't have. And it's a great way to get some more experience on your resume and to test out some waters of industries or areas that you might be interested in. Yeah, I'll just chime in and add to this a little bit too since. Doing public service things. I talked to a lot of people about volunteering. A site like volunteer match is a good way to. Maybe there's a particular cause that you're passionate about or maybe you're like, there's a particular cause that you're passionate about or maybe you're like, I just want to use my skills and help someone or maybe you're like, I just want to use my skills and help someone or some cause. Accounting skills or marketing skills or Whatever it is that you feel you can bring to the table and that will give you suggestions of places you can do that. They might be virtual opportunities. So going back to Allen's comment about international students, sometimes you can't always do work for pay right away upon arriving in the US. So things like volunteering, the projects board on CU, to small projects from alumni who need support with something and want to mentor a student and the forage is the same way, still an unpaid project not actually working for the company. It's usually large, you know, maybe like 14500 size companies that post projects on the forage. But they give you a I sample a taste of what a actual project might be. Like that you would work on if you were to work at that company. So they're not necessarily using your work for anything, but it gives you a chance to develop some skills. So just want to clarify, I guess some of those like. 3 or unpaid opportunities. One thing that we keep getting the question about. The presentation. We are recording and we hope to have the reporting to you. It won't be immediate. We have to, you know, close. Caption and whatnot. But we will have the slides available very shortly after to anyone who's attended. So just, I know we're getting a lot of the same questions, but I just wanted to clarify. But I'm glad you guys are interested in the links and engaging. And, Ellen, if you want to talk a little bit more about, some of the courses and things that would be great. I think have a little more experience teaching them. So I'm not. Let you talk more about. Yeah, so I think, you know, There are, so while we were explaining who we were in the beginning, me, it works for Central. I work for the College of Business. So there are different career service offices throughout the campus that you might be utilizing or might be specialized to your degree. But we're very collaborative, which is why we're doing this presentation together. But if in your degree program they offer a career planning course, I highly suggest it. If it's available, take that course. One of the things that I think students have a very hard time is setting a side time each week to work on their career development, which is necessary. It's that you really do have to keep working on it. Keep networking and a career planning course will have that time set in automatically. And really touch upon all the topics that A, students always ask about and be the queer counselor knows that you need to know. You know, if you have the ability and you're doing projects or you have the ability to volunteer for projects, within your program or your courses, you know, really try to take on or tackle things that will help you utilize your new skills. There's, there's a few things that, you know, I want to oppress the upon you. You know, if you have work experience that's great, but if you don't have work experience, projects, clubs, things like that where you can use your skills are still super valuable. Whether you're telling your story to, you know, an alumni or an employer about what you can do or whether you're just putting it on your resume and demonstrating those skills. Sometimes, and again, we're always saying, you know, if you can in your program, you have the ability to take an elective or courses outside your program. You know, Cornell, you have the ability to take an elective or courses outside your program. You know, Cornell is a very large institution and there might be something that really speaks to you or maybe you've been talking to a alumni. And they're like, had I had to do it over again, even though I'm going into pharmaceuticals, I would have really loved a course in accounting or something like that, or even though I'm going into, this industry, I would have loved a course in this just so that I'd have it. Again, be active in clubs. I know that you know you're coming into Cornell, so I know you're very successful. So I know you're very successful students. I'm pretty successful students. I'm pretty sure that you are all very engaged. I'm pretty sure that you are all very engaged in undergrad. It's going to. I'm pretty sure that you are all very engaged in undergrad. It's going to be different. This is really fast moving, right? You have a year, maybe you have 2 years, but there are very active clubs, whether they're university wide or within your own department. You know, It's gonna be quality over quantity. You might have been able to join a lot of clubs and undergrad and be active in all of them. I would really seek out only one or 2 where you can really devote your time. And clubs are fabulous for networking, bringing in alumni and speakers and again being able to demonstrate your skills. Okay, we can go to the. I did get a question. I believe it was Oliver about, you know, what if you know what you're gonna do when, you know, can we start applying and whatnot? Absolutely. And there's some of you that should be applying. As early as now, if you can see we have this, black timeline right in the middle. And each industry has different recruitment timelines. And I think it's really important that you recognize your industry's timeline. Now, could you get a job that's not exactly on the timeline? Yes, but if you want to be most successful, you really do want to pay attention to these timelines, right? So I'm gonna use consulting, which is one of the first, if you're interested in consulting. You need to have your resume ready now. You need to be applying now. You need to be getting ready for interviews and case prep all right now because it's starting as early as July even though you haven't even started your graduate program. Where as if you're in say architecture, you're gonna be, you know, getting all of those documents. Resume and everything ready, right now, and really focusing now on your networking and everything, but you're not going to apply until later in the year. Right? So remember that we're all on different paths. Don't get caught up in each other's timelines. And I say that because even though we're clearly like laying out here a person that's going into advertising is not going to be applying and not hearing from. Employers until next semester, those students will still compare themselves to say a finance student who gets an offer in September, right? And I will talk to students that are panicking and they're like, oh, my fellow colleagues in finance have already have offers. It's a different industry. It's a different timeline. Don't get caught up. On other people's timelines. And if you have, you know, this is just an overview, obviously there are exceptions. Alright, so getting ready to apply. I want you guys to really, you know, as I was speaking about these timelines, really get a good understanding of 2 types of recruiting, especially if you're not used to the US. There is just in time recruiting. This is how like Mia got her dog. I got my job. This is how the majority of people in US get their job just in time recruiting is a pull-based strategy, right? And it's providing managers with candidates that exactly match their needs when they want them in the amount they want, right? So if I leave my job tomorrow. They're gonna post adjust in time position. They're gonna post a position to fill my spots, right? In general, the average that you know from posting to having a person, you know, in that seat working at that job for just in time. Is about 2 to 3 months. Now this is important. Because unless you see a posting saying that they're hiring for like May, 2024 or June, 2024, grads. If they don't say that. That is a just in time posting, right? And I have students that will come in and say, I'm applied to 100 positions and haven't heard anything. And then when we look at what they apply to, they apply to just in time hiring in September. And I'm like, you're completely getting thrown out. Because they know you're not graduating until May and they want someone sitting in this seat in December. So it is valuable to look at these postings to learn a little bit about what, you know, employers are looking for and, you know, get a little bit more of an idea of what's out there. But do not waste your time applying to this now. These are the types of positions that you would have been applying to. In the end of spring semester. And before I move on to Justin, offer just in time. A little plug to anyone who's an international student. Sometimes employers are more likely to sponsor just in time than they will campus recruitment. And I'm going to cover campus recruitment in a second. The reason being is because You're applying for a specific job. And you meet all of the categories and all of the qualifications that they want and therefore they're they're willing to sponsor just in time. So let me go talk about campus recruitment. So this makes sense. Campus recruitment is different than just in time because it's it's all about identifying early. Talent and engaging with college students in the hopes of eventually hiring them upon graduation, right? So these are the people that are coming out of campus or holding virtual work sessions and they want to talk to you in September. And they might have you apply in September. But the job that they're gonna have you. Working is not gonna start until the future, right? So they're engaging early. For future hiring. Not every industry does this and that's really important to know. Right? And that's when we were talking about last slide. Stay in your own lane. Don't worry about others timeframes. The kind of industries that usually focus on, this kind of campus recruitment are finance. Accounting technology, business consulting, manufacturing, engineering, right? That's list is not exhausted, but these are the kinds of industries that are going to do this early recruitment. They're large companies, right? So they have a big need. No. Why would and I know we're not all international but just for international students here. Why would a company rather sponsor adjusted time versus campus recruitment? Sometimes campus recruitment is kind of like identifying talent and putting them in a bucket, right? I am gonna put these students at they're great. I'm gonna hire them and I'll put them in a development program or I'll put them in, you know, this training and then we'll see where they go or whatnot. Whereas just in time is for a specific job. So campus recruitment, they might say that they're not gonna sponsor because it's an early identification. It might not be for an exact specific position. Just in time, they might. So just remember that and do not get frustrated if the on campus recruiter say for Amazon is like oh you don't sponsor and you're like mmm yeah I know we have a Zondas sponsor they might not be sponsoring for this early recruitment, but you might have an excellent chance of getting a job with them. If you apply later in the year for just in time. Okay, thank you. I think this is you. Sorry, I'm trying to respond in the chat to things as well. So, multitasking a little bit here. There we go. Okay. I responded about. Technical skills gained during the master's program. Certainly. You will need to forecast some of the skills that you will be gaining. Particularly in those industries, Allen was just talking about that recruit. Not necessarily physically on campus, but through those early recruitment programs. You will need to do a little bit of forecasting but it's also perfectly acceptable to add things as you're doing them. Say you start a class project but it's not complete yet or you just got elected to a position. In your student organization, Which by the way doesn't have to be related to your field of study necessarily. It could just be something you really enjoy doing. You join the knitting club and become president just to get some leadership experience. So certainly you can, try and forecast some of the skills that you will be gaining. And typically if a employer is seeking a Cornell graduates, they know the timeline of how things work and they are kind of intentionally coming early to say, we see potential in you. So they might not necessarily hire you directly right away. It might be we're going to keep an eye on you directly right away. It might be we're going to keep an eye on you. We're gonna keep in touch. We're gonna keep an eye on you. We're gonna keep in touch. Let's connect on LinkedIn. We're gonna keep an eye on you. We're gonna keep in touch. Let's connect on LinkedIn. When you finish your degree, come back to me. So it depends on the industry, but, certainly you don't need to have all of those in hand before. You actually. That's why. But that's also where when we talked about that. LinkedIn career. Explore. That's also where you don't have to have the exact skills for that industry. But when you're talking with those employers, being able to, you know, find transferable skills that you have, you know, maybe you were a leader in a club in undergrad and you know that they want you know you've driven people in this industry you can still have those conversations with them and demonstrate that after you get all the academic training, you're gonna be qualified and they understand that. But some of these softer skills are these skills that are harder to teach or you might not necessarily learn in the classroom, you can demonstrate really early. Without, you know, having some of those hard technical skills. Good addition. The reason I put this, career development toolkit slide here again, as because I wanted to talk about. Actually applying for jobs, you know, writing the resume, the cover letter, interviewing all of those kinds of things are part of actually getting ready to apply. And there's templates and examples and tips for how to write a bullet point that is descriptive and meaningful. All of that gets walked through and, a module in the toolkit. So that's why I put that here again would encourage you to register for that. I did mention handshake in the chat briefly, just to say that the employers hosting campus recruiting events, we'll put those in handshake. Probably registered for this session through handshake. So anything hosted by our advisors will also be in there. But there's many, many different uses for handshake. So that's another great, place that we recommend you set up a profile. Everyone has at least something skeletal once you are, you know enrolled as a student so everyone's in there but the more information you can put in your profile the better the. Like suggestions will be. So it'll suggest events for you, employers to connect with jobs you might be interested in applying to. So the more robust your profile, the better those suggestions will be. You can sign up for interview slots if the company is doing that work through Cornell they'll actually put any of these thoughts right online so lots of different ways to use this. I guess I'll make one last comparison of handshake. Is. I compare things to LinkedIn as a frame of reference. Cause I think more people are familiar with that. So the way I was talking earlier about CUE links is a smaller. Same thing with handshake. There's not going to be every job in the world posted in handshake, but the ones that are there are because the employer chose to be in there. They opted in. They said, I want to recruit Cornell students and they posted their job in there. So that's the I guess benefit of starting with somewhere like handshake and then continuing your search on a broader site like LinkedIn. So. Networking is gonna be really important. And in the slide earlier, you know, Mia went over it again, networking is not asking for a job, it's not asking for a referral. It's asking for information and information is so valuable. So make sure that you are networking and getting conversations and getting those, you know, inside tips, whether it's inside tips about applying or inside tips about how the industry is going or inside about like what's the first job you should get so that the next job you can get into that career. So LinkedIn outreach, make sure that you are outreaching and, creating individual emails. I have seen students. I've been on the receiving end of some blanket email that has nothing to do with me. It's asking me for a finance job. I work at Cornell in Career Services. So make sure that you, you know, you're putting your best foot forward. And customizing your message. One thing that I think people forget to do is if you're familiar with LinkedIn. Say you wanted to connect with me today. If you hit the connect button, it on your computer, it will just have that regular note that says I'd like to connect with you. A pro tip is customize that note. You get 300 characters. So within that connection, you could say, I really enjoy your workshop today. I'd like to add you to my LinkedIn profile or you could say something about wanting to chat with someone. So before you even get them to connect, you can tell them exactly why you're trying to connect with them. Get in the habit of doing that. Info sessions. That is a great way to learn about industries and companies. So we highly encourage you to attend information sessions by employers. Those will be advertised in handshake. Sometimes students get a little frustrated because they see one but they're not allowed to attend. Remember that the companies tell us. What population they want to see, right? So if it's saying that they only wanna see sophomores. You know, it's not really gonna be open to grad students, but please keep your eye on what is open and attend them. A little thing that is important, I know that lots of you, you're going to an IV school and obviously we are at target for many companies and industries but since COVID not all of them are going to come to campus anymore. . We don't love that, right? We'd rather if they're doing a virtual just do it for our students. But regardless, we want you to go and get that information, just do it for our students. But regardless, we want you to go and get that information. And the last pro tip for this slide is whenever you're in an information session, whether it's in person or it's like we are now, introduce yourself before your question, right? You want to get, you want to get credit for that great question. No one's going to be able to say, oh, the girl in the black and the black shirt seemed really together. Like they are not gonna hire a black shirt or they can't find her so whenever you're raising your hand to ask a question in person you're gonna say hi and Ellen Murphy and I'm in the Management Masters program. My question is right. If you're in virtual, you want to have your camera on and look professional and still, again, introduce yourself. Remember that for most of these employers, they want to see how you are going to be in front of their clients or in front of their other staff. So we are always going to present ourselves as a professional. Okay, one of the sessions. I really enjoy, listening to and hosting is about decoding the job description. We have an activity for this in the toolkit as well as a reported version of this that's happened in the past. But essentially, we know that job descriptions are not always the most straightforward document. So if you are having trouble just learning what they're actually asking for, you can bring it to any career advisor and we can help you. You can reach out to the HR, human resources, contact listed on the job posting if you have questions. But essentially, We want to. Think about. What skills they're asking for, even if they might not be naming that specifically. Not all companies write their job descriptions the same. Not all companies write their job descriptions the same. Some of them are very, very vague and you're trying to understand more about what they're looking specifically. Not all companies write their job descriptions the same. Some of them are very, very vague and you're trying to understand more about what they're looking for. You can watch the session to try and decode what it is that you should emphasize about yourself. In your resume, you can also go to that on that website you were looking at earlier and type in the job title and it might tell you some more specifics about what that role will involve. We might be able to talk about your skills in those areas based on a more generalized job description. Definitely a good tool. Just gonna run through some different resources we have for you. Alan was talking about, presenting yourself professionally, you know, at our professional, headshot or our picture profile picture. That's perfectly fine. We do not think you need to pay anyone to do this. We have a selfie station in our office on campus. That you can use, we're actually getting a new much, fancier higher quality. Setup as well for this fall. That we're literally just assembling right now. It's in our office and pieces. So you're welcome to come, take your picture and use that for your LinkedIn pan shake, see, links wherever you want to put that. So that's another great free tool that you have access to. So that's another great free tool that you have access to. And you have lots of support. So as promised, Ellen and I, mentioned that we are just part of the campus career network. There are specialized advisors for people in particular master's programs or people in different colleges. There's an office for PhD students. We're applying to jobs and industry as opposed to going into academia. That office is called careers beyond academia. So there's lots of. Different places that might have more specialized support available for you. Like I said, I can see anyone, but I'm not gonna be an expert on your specific field. I know a little bit about a lot of things. So some of these folks, I just grabbed a few pictures, to show some friendly faces, but, we'll send, these slides out like I mentioned. And really this is just copied from the link that QR code was on the previous page. So these are different scheduling links for different offices. That specialize in different masters programs. So, just wanted you to be aware that those and that we will, Send you this if you didn't already grab that link to our web page. And. It's awesome that you're either here. I mean, that says a lot about you that you're already engaging over the summer. I will say. That once you get on campus, we're gonna be flooded with appointments, like back to back appointments and it might be hard for you to get in to see us right away. Don't get frustrated. You know, we just keep checking and, you know, we will see you. It's just the first couple of weeks are always crazy. Things do thin out as the year goes by. That also just a reminder that if you do schedule appointment, keep it. Because you've taken that time away from another student and especially in the beginning of the year where I might have 9 appointments back to back. You know, it might take another student 2 weeks to see me and you skipped your appointment. So, cancel early, cancel a day or 2 before and if you, make an appointment, keep it. Yeah, yeah, good point. Good just professional. Practice too, right, to keep appointments you may correlate. So thanks for bringing that up. We know that a lot of our graduate students are also international students. So we wanted to include, a slide about some resources specific to that there's an international student orientation coming up and there's a lot of online resources. Through the Office of Global Learning. Including this, video about student work visas and like a whole series of web pages that walk you through all sorts of different pieces. So Ellen and I know a little bit, but we are not the experts, so I would go to. These, through global learning and, that will. Be a good. And if you hesitate when an employer asks you a question. You're gonna make them nervous, right? So always be an expert on your own visa, right? Always be able to answer those simple questions about OPT or what they need to do for CPT, the information is there, but you wanna make sure that you can confidently tell an employer, you know what, it's actually really easy for CPT, all you need to do is give me a letter on that our head with this information, right? So be an expert in your. Oh, and thesa. There's lots of different. We mentioned the media library. That's where this recording is going to live. There's also recordings of all sorts of other workshops. So like Allen was saying, sometimes there's busy times of year where you have to wait a while to get an appointment with us. The career development toolkit has tons of information. If you don't like reading as much, and you want to listen to information, the Media Library is a great place to go as well. And you can filter those and, the media library is a great place to go as well. And you can filter those and, you know, search to find exactly what you're looking for. So that's another great tool. It's a great place to go as well. And you can filter those and, you know, search to find exactly what you' but we'll, leave some time for questions now.