Alright, hello everyone. My name is Ana Adinolfi. I work in Arts and Science Career Development. We're talking today about summer jobs and internships. A lot of this advice can also be applied to the job search. So if you're also thinking about full-time jobs, then this is a great place for you to be as well. Behind the scenes is my colleague, Sam Stafford.  There she is, hi Sam. Sam's going to be doing the technology. She's going to be managing the Q&A while I'm talking. So you may get to see her, hear from her a little bit later. But if you're using the Q &A function, odds are you're talking to Sam. And just a little piece of housekeeping before we jump in, please do use the Q&A function. If you have questions while I'm presenting, I welcome your questions. I will not be monitoring the chat. Sam will not be monitoring the chat. So the place to be is Q&A, if anything comes up while I'm presenting, and I will certainly try to leave some time at the end to answer any questions that you have. So before we get started, that's me, that Sam. Let me run a poll and just find out  a little bit about you. So please take a second look on your screen and answer the questions to this poll. One more second to respond. Perfect. Okay, so this is who's here today. First years outweighing everybody else. Welcome to everybody. No alumni snuck on. Bummer. But good to see you all here today. Okay. Let's scooch along. So here is my plan for today. There's five steps to the search cycle, this applies to internships and it applies to jobs. This is the overview for that whole process. I'm going to address these five things today. And of course, you know, I'm going to leave some time for your questions at the end. So I'm going to shut my video off as we move along, just so you can focus on my beautiful slides that I put together. Ok. So how graduates found their jobs. Every year, we survey outgoing seniors and we ask them a bunch of questions about their first destination after their time at Cornell. One of the questions we ask them is how did you find your job? And so I wanted to start out with this data because I think that it's interesting. You hear a lot about handshake, you hear a lot about on-campus interviewing as it used to be known in the before time or in other words, jobs that students got through Handshake and through the official Cornell University means. That only makes up about 16% of students who get their job that first destination after graduation. And the rest of it is a variety of other reasons. You see 15% are people who got jobs from other means. That could be a whole slew of things, but not necessarily networking or an internship or a job that they had previously. So part of my message today is, you know, we don't want you to be using just one method getting to that first destination after graduation. There can be a bunch of different ways to make that happen. Here's what I suggest that you start out with. The first step is often the step that people are tempted to skip. And for those of you who are just getting started, particularly our first-year students, I urge you to slow down and start here. So self-reflection is the place to start. What do you enjoy? What matters the most to you? What are you good at? What can you do? Is there's somewhere that you need to be? Somewhere that you want to be as far as location? Do you really want to find that in-person experience? Or do you really want to find that remote experience? What environment is going to help you grow and learn the best in your career. And then of course, we want you to be thinking about industries or job functions or companies that you might want to target or you might need to target given your career plan. And I'm only spending one slide on it. But this is a tough place to start because it requires you to be introspective. And that is where I really think meeting with your career counselor or advisor in your home office is a great place to start. So if you find that you're struggling here, we invite you to make an individual appointment with somebody from one of our offices. Every college and school at Cornell has their own home career office. You might hear me refer to it and there's also a centralized advising at Cornell Career Services. So I do encourage you to meet with a career counselor or advisor. This is what we do all day. We would love to chat with you about it. There is also another resource that was included in your registration for this workshop and that's the Career Development Toolkit on Canvas. It's a self-paced, you know, pick and choose course on Canvas. I'll be sure to send you the information on how to sign up. But that course has a wealth of information. It can get you started on some career assessments, some value statements, that sort of thing, can jumpstart your interests and figuring out what it is that you want to do. Okay, so that's first things first, spend time here. Next is researching the career field and the industry. And I'm just reminding you again in case you came in late, that I will be sending this PowerPoint out. So all of these links, you'll be able to click them yourself in 24 to 48 hours. So here's some online resources. They're great to look into specific industries, you know, things like Vault. You can read more about what different jobs entail. Get a sense of the issues in the industry. A professional association website is a great way to kind of spy on, you know, what do marketing professionals, what do they like? What do they like to do? What sorts of articles are they reading, what are they presenting on? For the Employer and Alumni resources, Handshake is probably how you found us here today, handshake is a wonderful resource and not just for jobs, but for employer information sessions, for networking events, for career fairs. And then there's networking with people in the industry. I'm going to talk a little bit about, I'm going to talk a lot about networking, full disclosure. But, you know, networking with people in the industry is a great way to get to know things about the career path. And we have two specific places that can help you find strangers that you don't know yet to network. But I urge you to start with people that you know. It might be parents of your friends here. And it might be upperclassmen who have recently graduated from Cornell or even people who are still here, Seniors who are in clubs and organizations, or your friends, you had a cool internship last summer. They're all part of your network. And I urge you to start there. If you are looking for people outside of your network, I recommend CUeLinks and LinkedIn. CUeLinks is an online university-wide  networking platform where you can connect with mostly alumni, but there's also faculty, staff, what we would call friends of Cornell, all over the world, all different career paths. And it's about information sharing. So I like CUeLinks because the people on CUeLinks have opted in to say yes, I want to help undergraduates. And so they're there for you. They're there to be a part of the community and to help you out. Linkedin. It's larger because they haven't necessarily opted in to talking to undergraduates. But it's absolutely a great resource and you can look for the alumni specific, the Cornell alumni specific page on there, that's where that link that I'm sending you will go right away. Of course, we have all sorts of coffee chats and Career Conversations and seminars and things like that. Most of that is going to be available via handshake or honestly, the emails that you receive from your department, your major, or your college. I also wanna point out the alumni connections program. That's another Cornell specific program. And that connects students and alumni for shadowing or ex-ternship opportunities. You can connect with a mentor. So again, another kind of low-risk way to network with people that you maybe don't know. Of course, you know, there's hands-on experience, plenty of that available at Cornell. Student organizations, great opportunity, research. Just any job you get is an opportunity for doing research on career fields and for meeting people who could be part of your network. Okay, so informational interviews and networking let me stay with networking another minute because it's, I know it's a place where students often push back at me and maybe you're sitting wherever you're sitting today, rolling your eyes thinking, OK, let's move on from that slide. I'm not going to do that, it's too weird. It's too awkward. You know, I hear a lot of people feel kinda sleazy trying to figure out, you know, these networking contacts and reaching out to people, you know, and here I am a career counselor. I'm saying like no, I want you to talk to people who seem like they had interesting jobs because that's how you figure out whether or not it is that you want to do it. I have a short video clip, fingers crossed that sound works. Sam let me know if I'm the only one hearing the sound. What do you picture when you think about networking? Many people think of slick, self-interested people manipulating others to get things they don't deserve, or pretending to care about someone just to use them to get to someone else.  Instead of considering networking sleazy, we reframed the way you think of it and re-imagined it is something else entirely? One way to reframe networking is to picture it as asking for directions. Think back on the last time you lived or worked somewhere where you really know your way around. Can you remember a time when a stranger came up and asked you for directions? What happened? If you were able to point them in the right direction, how did you feel? Did you feel like they were using you? No! If you're like most people, you felt good about being able to help someone out. In general, just like you're happy to give directions to a stranger, most people enjoy doing small things to help others. And asking for help finding people or information in a professional context is actually a lot like asking where you can find the nearest ATM or coffeehouse. Networking allows people inside a community to help people like you who maybe from outside the community, find their way, learn new things, and better participate in a domain or type of work. And the community benefits from bringing new people into the conversation too. The more introductions that are made, the more information everyone has to take advantage of. Good networking is just like asking for directions. And people are happy to help. The point isn't to "do" networking. The goal is to become part of the network. And someday you'll help someone too. Okay, so another way that I encourage students to think about it is imagine that somebody from your, oh gosh, sorry guys. Imagine that somebody from your high school contacts you and says, I really am interested in Cornell. I am thinking of applying or I'm thinking about, you know, it's one of my top two choices. Can you share anything about Cornell University? And if you had the time and something to share, my guess is that you would be willing to help that student out, give them a little bit of information. Even though you were part of that high school community, you're part of the Cornell community now and you have information that you didn't have to share a little while ago. Okay, so now we've done our research, we've done our networking. We, you know, we've thought about what the best fit is for you. Now it's time to identify some employers and identify some opportunities. I want to start with this graphic about job search and different industries. And talk about some of the main that Cornellians are interested in. So you might not see your particular job search timeline on here, your internship search timeline on here. But I wanted to show you this graphic to make sure that you know that it's not the same for every student and to help you pace yourself and learn to be patient. I talked to a lot of students this fall who are interested in non-profit internships, which is lovely. But the fall is not the time for most non-profit internships. And so it looks like there was nothing online, there's nothing on handshake. They aren't coming to the career fair to talk to me. That's true. Because as you see here with non-profit, they're not even really getting into their heavy recruiting until it's late into the spring. And so I urge you to look, if you have your industry that you're interested in on here, be thinking about what does that timeline look like? When is the heavy recruiting? When is the medium recruiting? And when is the light recruiting? Now, if your industry is on here and it says light recruiting or it looks like you're recruiting period is over, please do not panic. It doesn't mean that there's no recruiting happening. It means that it makes a lot of sense for you to come and talk to a career counselor or career advisor to get some information about what is out there and what you might need to do to find a position. So a lot of times I'm going to talk about the hidden job market in a little bit. But a lot of times there's people in your network. There's things that are not being posted that we can steer you to. So I do urge you to make an appointment if that's something coming up for you. You're like, oh no, I'm in light recruiting, what do I do? So you've seen this and now you know it's a little bit different for every industry. Ok, so we're identifying and researching specific employers and opportunities. So here is another huge group of, huge group of links to be thinking about. We're putting together that Job Search Strategy, that internship search strategy. The biggest part of this honestly is carving out time to actually do it. It's a lot of work to identify and apply for and secure an experience. That's part of why we scheduled this presentation for right now, our hope is that you might have a little bit of time on your hands. And so you can really devote the time you need to launching this right now. So you see vaults on there, you see handshake on there. There's resources for ways to find opportunities and research companies and employers. You'll notice that additional resources are not linked and that's because they're unique to you and the research you've done the who, what, where, why--you're running your experience search. Employers use various methods to find employees. You know, it's not just going to be on handshake, gosh I wish it was but it's not. you know, it's a great resource. And you'll remember from that pie chart earlier about how 2019 grads got their jobs. That handshake should not be the only resource that you use for your search. Some employers are only going to post opportunities on their website. And so you need to do that research ahead of time to say, I know that this is an employer that I want to work with and I need to be keeping an eye on their website to wait for those internships to be posted. Some employers have summer opportunities available, but they don't publicize them. And so you have to be knowing and doing the research behind the scenes to know I want to work for this employer. How do I contact them? How do I use my network to to get in touch and to let them know that I'm interested in this position. So that's the additional resources. Again, doing your own research. There's a whole module in that career development toolkit on canvas that I was talking about, that talks about employer research. This is another great time to consult with a career counselor or advisor, particularly the ones in your home college or ones that are specific to the career path that you're interested in. So do take this message. If you're not sure, look on the canvas module. If it's on the Canvas module, absolutely come in and talk to a career advisor or virtually come in and talk to a career advisor. Alright, so now we've identified and research them. It's time to actually submit our materials. Number one thing you're gonna need is a resume. For those of you who are first year students, if you have a high school resume, we still have to update it, even if you only joined one club in your time at Cornell. You definitely want to take a look at that resume and update it. The resume is usually the most important marketing tool that you have. And we want to be highlighting your skills, your attributes, your knowledge, for a targeted audience. Using the job description is a great way to target your resume. When we say target your resume, we mean that you have looked at the job description, looked at what the employer wants. You're presenting a resume that says, Yep, I can do those things. I have all the key things that you're saying that you need. If you're applying for different industries or different job functions in the same industry, you might have two or three or four resumes that are all targeted towards those different types of things. So definitely be looking at the company, be looking at the job titles so that you know what to do. Reading closely is another thing. If you're an Excel spreadsheet person, you're going to shine in the application materials time because we want you to be keeping track of when did you submit what did you submit? When does the date close for an application? When are the interviews happening? those sorts of things. Certainly we want to look at your job search materials. It's great to have a friend or a family member review them. We do encourage you to also get your job search materials professionally reviewed by us here, in career services. We want your resume to be one page. We want it to be succinct. We want it to have pretty action verb so that those skills are jumping off the page at the employer. Again, there's a Canvas module for this is, if you're not picking up on it. There's the Canvas module for pretty much everything. So getting your resume reviewed, those options vary by college. Generally, you can have reviews done on a drop-in basis with the student advisor or a full-time career advisor, either in drop ins or in an appointment. But I'll have at the end of the presentation that links to all of the career offices and also to the main career office in Barnes Hall. So that is the way to figure out, tool around their website to find how you get those resume reviews. We also look at cover letters, which is one of those like networking, a much maligned part of the job search process. So I want to address cover letters, maybe because I was an English major and I like writing. So I want you to think of that cover letter as a letter of introduction. It's also never more than a page, just like a resume is usually even shorter three paragraphs, four paragraphs. The main purpose of a cover letter is to let the reader know who you are and why you're writing obviously. And kind of like a coming attractions to, what the reader can expect to see on your resume. The resume and cover letter are connecting those dots between the job description, what the employer is looking for, and what you have to offer. Again, I want you to be leaning heavily on the job description, leaning heavily on your research about the company. And think about a couple key attributes that, you know the employer is looking for, that you also have experience and you can really highlight them. And we love helping with this in career services. So do please come and talk to us if you're having trouble brainstorming ideas. Alright, so interviewing, if I haven't  said it enough, let me say one more time or probably, maybe not. I'm gonna say it a bunch more times, but researching the employer and the industry and your interviewer, if you have access to that information, is the first thing that you need to be doing when you are preparing for your interview. I tell students to look at the job description and turn each sentence or bullet point into a question. So say they're looking for somebody with strong organizational skills. Think about a time when you have demonstrated that in one of your jobs or internships or classes. So you can address that in the interview itself when you are asked, or if you're asked about it. So enthusiasm for the position and the industry is certainly a must. You can show this through again, your research. And being engaged in interview. Remember that the interview is a dialogue. We want you to be interviewing them just as much as they're interviewing you. I know it can feel desperate like, please somebody pick me. But the truth is, we want you to be thinking critically because this is a step in your career path. Is this the best step for you? Is this is the best environment for you? Definitely make sure you come prepared for questions for the interviewer, that's going to help you understand the job and understand the employer better. So certainly be thinking of it as a dialogue. Be engaged in the research that you do so that you know for sure what sorts of questions you need to ask to know you can make a good decision about the internship. We offer practice interviews in career services. The websites all have information about how to schedule them. It really helps get the jitters out. There's not an opportunity on the line. You know, it's not like we're going to hire you or choose not to hire you. So you practice with us first. And it's helpful to get some feedback before you go on an interview. And if you've been on an interview and it wasn't successful, we want to see you even more because we really believe that everybody who is highlighting your skills appropriately can be chosen for the right position. So we can help you tweak. We can help you gain confidence. Please. Please, please come to a practice interview and we love to help out with that. Couple other things. First know whether or not the interview is on the phone, video, or in person. You don't want to be surprised by a Zoom if you're thinking it was a phone. If you're not sure how to dress for the interview, it varies by industry. Sometimes it varies by job function, honestly. That's a great time to talk to your network, somebody you know who is in that same industry, to get some tips. We often can have some tips for you based on what we know about employers. But talking to somebody in industry is the best way to figure that out. And send a thank you email. We can do it on email now, so send  that thank you email within 24 hours of the interview. Alright, so now you have a job. Let's say you've got that internship offer. How exciting somebody wants you, What do we think about? So first we want you to remember all the way back to step one when I said please take some time and think about, you know, who you are and why you want this internship, what's going on in your life right now? And does this position match with those things? Don't say yes unless you have the offer in writing, you want to see everything that's going on. You want to make sure that it's true. You want to have a piece of paper and you know that you can turn to and say, yup, remember when he offered me this job. Talk to your loved ones. And remember that in career development, we can be that neutral third party to you. You know, if your sister has a really strong opinion about it, so she might not be the best person to talk to you. But in career development, we want what's best for you. We can help you sort through things in a neutral way. It's a good practice to just not accept an interview for a position you know you won't accept. It wastes the employer's time. It doesn't reflect very well on you. It certainly doesn't reflect well on Cornell if it's through on campus recruiting. Give yourself time to consider an offer. Even if you're thrilled and you're almost positive, you're going to accept it. We recommend not saying yes right away. You might say something like, what great news! I'm looking forward to learning more about the position and ask them when do you need me to tell you by or when do you need my decision by. So even if you're like, Oh my gosh, yes please-- take a deep breath. Express gratitude. And also don't say yes quite yet. Once you do say yes, once the yes is out there, it's time to withdraw all of your other applications. Don't continue to interview, don't submit new applications after submitting an offer. Reneging  is what that's called if you accept an offer and then later on you say no, actually, I don't want that job. It's absolutely not acceptable. You cannot do it. And verbal reneging on verbal offer is reneging and offer. And that's why I say like, if you're 100% pumped about this job, please don't say yes on-the-spot. Give it a second. Take a deep breath to make sure that you're making the best decision for you. Often recruiters talk to each other, especially those in the same industry or people who often hire Cornellians are chatting. We want you to always reply to an offer even if you're going to say no. And don't feel awkward about saying no, I mean, obviously do  it politely, but that's not an awkward thing. It's part of the hiring process. Employers expect that and so go ahead, say no, in a polite way, but absolutely reach out to them. Don't feel weird or like you're hurting somebody's feelings a polite no is better than being left hanging. So reply only when you are certain of an answer. Asking for more time is totally fine. And having that conversation is a thing that we do in our office all the time as career counselors and advisors. We can help coach you about, this is a reasonable thing to ask for. This is usually not the way that it's done, but you can try or we don't recommend asking for this particular accommodation. Certainly come talk to us. We have these conversations with students all the time and we can help you make these decisions about negotiations and about offers. So that's offers. Okay, just a few more things to consider. So if you're planning to use college credit or your employers requires it as part of the internship, which is often the case, your college career office is the best source of information. If there is papers that need to be signed, if there's something that they say have your college do this, bring it to your college career office. If they don't have information about how to access it on the website, email the main email address for your college career office and they'll take care of it. So yes, hold harmless agreements, credit for internships. Anything internship related that needs to be signed by the school, bring it to career services. We've seen it before and we can help process the information. Be mindful if you're receiving Receiving compensation for that internship, that it might affect your financial aid. And so if there's compensation involved, Absolutely get in touch with them if you're a financial aid recipient. For international students with Visa issues, we rely on ISSO to be helping you figure out, does this make sense visa wise for me? So ISSO is another situation. Where will you live? How will you afford this? if it's an unpaid or underpaid internship, know that there is funding available at Cornell. It's not a ton of funding, but it's out there. And that's another thing that's usually available that information through your college career office. You might know of something. And, and most colleges have some sort of program where they can fund unpaid or underpaid internships within reason. So that's the boring piece for paperwork. Come see us first. if we're not the people, you know, I have students who come to me and they have a question about, you know, their work visa and they're an international student, I say, nope, that's not me. Talk to ISSO. You can always come to us first and we will help figure it out. So those are the main things to be thinking about when you're talking about summer jobs and internships and the full-time job search. These are the resources, everybody's home college and these are clickable links for sure. You know, we're all remote right now. We're remote most of the time, nobody's seeing students in offices unless it's an emergency. So the website, email, and online appointments via Zoom are the easiest ways to contact us right now. One more note about Cornell career services, particularly because we have some first year students with us. If you are considering doing an internal transfer, you're unsure of your major. That's a great time to talk to Cornell career services because they are specialists in every college and university. And so they can be a good resource for like, oh, I'm in ILR but I'm thinking I'm transferring to CALS like what are those career options like? or what are those internships like, stuff like that. So that's all that I have for you. Do you have any questions for me? I don't know if anything came in while I was chatting because I wasn't looking at but questions, this would be a great time to type things in. Or if there's stuff that comes up, yeah.  I do not see any questions right now. If there is anything, I'm happy to relay it. Well, I'll give you a second if there's any questions that come up, somebody might be furiously typing now, who knows. I also feel like we could update this page with emails when we send out the PowerPoint. Yes, absolutely. Alright, well if there's no questions, certainly, you're welcome to email me. You'll get an email from me with this PowerPoint in it shortly,  probably tomorrow. But if more questions come in, I'm happy to chat. More questions are coming in. maybe it was seeing my face again. Maybe they're long questions. Advice on how to balance applying for internships and jobs while also balancing classes and work? so how to kind of map out time to be able to  be dedicated for it. Yeah, so my best advice for balancing applying to internships and jobs while also doing classes and working and all the other stuff that you have is to make a dedicated time for it. So one thing that you can do now during the winter, while you're still on break, you could be doing that employer research or coming up with maybe an Excel spreadsheet full of links of places where you're going to go look for these jobs. And then you could say, all right, every Saturday morning when I get up, instead of looking at social media, I'm going to click down that list  of Excel spreadsheet that I've already made and look and see, are there any new jobs or internships available to me? And then you can see, okay, yep, there's two things that I might apply for. You've already got your resume ready. You already had a few cover letters that you can kind of mash together to make a new template and then it's a little bit easier to apply. So doing as much as you can prepare when you have a big chunk of time and then working it into your schedule, we're thinking, okay every Saturday, that's what I'm gonna do before I really start my day, is look and see are there any new jobs available for me. Good advice.  Here's another question. If you're looking at multiple industries, what do you recommend? So looking at multiple industries, you know, anything you can do to narrow that down by starting with that networking, I recommend. If you have a8potential industries, let's try and narrow it down to three or four. It's absolutely fine to be applying for multiple industries at once if you feel like you're qualified, especially if you're still exploring with your career, you're not quite sure you wanna do yet. Go ahead and apply to a bunch of things and a bunch of different industries. The reason why I said just narrow it down is because you're making more work. So let's say you're interested in law and you're interested in finance, and you're interested in marketing. Those are three different things. That's three different resumes, three different timelines like you saw on that search. And it might not gel together where there might not even be legal internships available when the marketing internships come up. And certainly you saw finance is a very early one. So you might not be able to get what you want. I also really recommend if you have interest in multiple industries talking to a career counselor because we can help you strategize and tell you what's possible. So it might be that like, Nope, there's no way with the finance interests you're gonna be able to do anything other than finance if you want law and marketing. Or we can say, this is the summer for a marketing internship. And then next summer we're gonna target finance internships. So we can help with that nuance of how do you time things. But certainly it's going to be multiple resumes. You'll have a law one, you'll have a marketing one, you'll have a finance one. And multiple timelines and places that you're looking. Any other questions? None. Speak now if you can. And really feel free to get in touch later on, you know where to find us. I think I emphasize enough that we super-duper wanna talk to you if you've got other questions. All right. Well, thank you so much for coming. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day. However long that may be depending on your time zone. And hopefully we will talk soon. Alright, bye.