My name is Aiturgan, and I am a second-year community college student pursuing CS! I went from being a ballerina to interning at Microsoft, being fellow with Uber and more! I was part of the New Technologists Program by Cyborg Mobile, where students from different backgrounds build products together from scratch and receive mentoring at Microsoft!

I vouch for BobaTalks. I have found the Uber Career Prep and Asians @ Microsoft Program through BT’s discord server! You can find industry professionals, mentors, your community, and the best support there! Moreover, I host daily Leetcode sessions there! Other helpful recourses I utilize are Rewriting the Code, WeCracked, and Simplify Internships GitHub Repo!

Everything that makes you different is your strength, not your weakness. Being your authentic self will give you the confidence and courage to show up for yourself, build that project you always wanted to, talk to that cool person on LinkedIn, and so on. You might fail and stumble, the process will suck, but ther is something that sucks more: the regret of not doing it. You have the power to define your story, not them.

💡 Please connect with me on LinkedIn HERE and send me the word “Interested” if you’d like to have your intern story featured on CareerNow with more than 12,800 readers! 💡

OpenAI has introduced a new AI model, OpenAI-o1, which improves on existing models by reasoning through complex problems instead of delivering instant answers, as large language models typically do. This shift in approach allows the model to solve tasks that stump even GPT-4, OpenAI's most powerful model.

OpenAI-o1 uses reinforcement learning to enhance its problem-solving capabilities by receiving feedback based on its answers. Although the company is developing a larger GPT-5 model, it plans to combine scaling with this new reasoning paradigm to improve AI performance in tasks requiring complex reasoning and decision-making. Read more HERE from WIRED.

Thousands of Boeing workers voted to strike after rejecting a contract offer, posing a significant disruption as the company aims to increase airplane production. The walkout, set for midnight Pacific time, could halt operations in Seattle, Boeing's main manufacturing hub, and further strain its fragile supply chain.

Boeing’s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, warned that a strike could jeopardize the company's recovery and customer trust. The union's strike vote passed with 96% approval, and 95% of voters rejected the proposed deal. Read more HERE from the New York Times.

Manny Duenas is a University recruiter at Intuit, and he’s also founded the Intern Ship where students, interns, and early career professionals from leading companies can connect, network, and build lasting friendships in a fun, relaxed environment.

His goal is to empower diverse young professionals and first generation college students to break into tech. Because for the past 5+ years he’s worked in workforce development as a recruiter, career services, facilitator, and conduit supporting 1000+ diverse talent find employment at top companies.

🔥 Manny’s Highlights (snippet from his about section)
- Built communities with 10k+ job seeker members
-30+ Speaking engagements/ professional development events
-24k+ attendees at his events
-Collaborated with 150+ recruiters, career coaches and hiring managers
-Helped 10+ job seekers land jobs through audio events

When the Intern Ship comes to the San Francisco area, you might just see me pop by at the event if I’m in the area! It’s a super cool event for you to connect with other amazing interns in your area, and I wish I had gone to the last one.

Connect with him on LinkedIn here to not only learn more from him as an HR professional but also to follow up with the Intern Ship event!