Career Corner: Leadership opportunities within Baruch

Leadership programs can benefit one's future by providing extra knowledge and opportunity that will expand one's leadership skills and help one realize his or her career goals.

Baruch offers many different programs, which includes TEAM Baruch, FLP, RSS, Inroads, SEO, MLT, NYNY.

TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More) Baruch is a two-day intensive training program that focuses on enhancing self-awareness, communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution and mediation skills.

The program aims to help students understand themselves in order to gain imminent knowledge of group dynamics to allow for collective change in the community.

Upon completion of the training, students are able to pursue one of the following leadership positions:

•  Orientation Leader – The main responsibilities are to welcome new freshman and transfer students and ensure that they acclimate to Baruch.

•   Freshman Seminar Peer Mentor – Run in-class sessions to help freshman in the fall or spring semester and help them adjust to Baruch's college life.

•   Peer Academic Advisor – The advisor meets with students who have less than 45 credits to assist with curriculum related questions, such as what classes they need to take to fulfill their degree requirements.

•   Peers for Careers – Peers serve as career coaches on topics such as career exploration, resume writing, cover letters, thank you letters, interviewing and job searching. The program is a two-tiered leadership experience within the Starr Career Development Center.

•   Peers Advocating Wellness Services provides confidential health and counseling assistance to students who request it with the support of the Baruch administration.

Each of the above programs requires additional training after TEAM Baruch and separate interviews for selection.

For more information on how to apply to TEAM Baruch and the various programs, please visit: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/StudentLife/leadership/teambaruch.htm

The Financial Leadership Program (FLP) is an intense career development program with a focus on finance.

The program accepts 20 to 30 students in their junior year with outstanding academic and leadership abilities and prepares them for a career in finance.

Students within the program pursue internships in different areas such as investment banking, sales and trading, asset management, risk management and other fields within finance.

Past participants have obtained internships at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, BMO Capital Markets, Abbott Laboratories, among other firms.

Interested students must have a minimum G.P.A. of 3.5 and must apply in the spring semester of their junior year.

The Rising Starr Sophomore Program (RSS) will prepare students for work and leadership roles by providing a set of interdisciplinary, structured on and off campus learning experiences. There are required activities and events for each academic year along with suggested electives which allows students to customize the program to suit their individual interests and needs.

The goals for each year are as follows:

•   Sophomore - Discover & Connect to increase students' awareness of the STARR Career Development Center's services and resources.

•   Junior - Investigate & Apply to retain students' involvement in the career development process.

•   Senior - Expand & Advance to effectively assess students' progression through the career development process.

All majors are eligible with a minimum G.P.A. of 3.0 in upper freshman standing and enrolled fulltime or part-time at Baruch College.

Inroads' missions statement is to develop and place talented underserved youth in business and industry an to prepare them for corporate and community leadership. It has expanded to become and international organization with a focus on helping students attain internships starting from their senior year in high school.

Paid internships are sponsored by Boeing, TD Bank Financial Group, Target, MetLife, Google, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, RBC Capital Markets, KPMG, Johnson and Johnson, Coca-Cola and Kraft.

In order to be a participant of this program, students must have two summers remaining after the spring semester, a minimum college G.P.A. of 2.8, and a minimum high school GPA of 3.0.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) also provides career programs for undeserved communities to maximize their opportunities for college and career success. SEO's career program offers summer internships to people of color that can possibly lead to full time job offers.

Internship opportunities exist for juniors in corporate financial leadership, banking, corporate law and nonprofit.

Requirements may vary depending on the field for which you are applying.

Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) is a career development institution that equips high potential African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans with key ingredients to unlock their potential — skills, coaching and door-opening relationships.

MLT opens the door to corporate, non-profit, and entrepreneurial sectors. MLT's career prep college program includes intensive one-on-one coaching as well as leadership and analytical skill development seminars led by partner corporations.

New York Needs You (NYNY) prepares low-income, first-generation college students to realize their college and career potential. NYNY's intensive two-year program includes bi-weekly career workshops where students develop relationships with more than 400 highly accomplished mentor volunteers and community and business leaders.