CTP Skill Center

I turned in assignments that were due. I took typing tests. I worked on “Salesforce CRM” which was challenging.

After the typing exercise, I began work on my portfolio and spent some time nodding and falling asleep in front of the camera because I was awake until 3:00 am this morning, working on my Percipio test that was due this afternoon. Also, it was daylight savings time yesterday (spring forward), so it was a double trouble adjusting to the time change during our training today. Yes, nodding asleep was part of what I did today.

Today was my first day at a new desk, so figuring out the ergonomic adjustments was a bit tricky, but I will figure it out soon. We did typing, and mine got worse because it will take a few days to perfect the ergonomics of this new setup. We spent most of the day on our electives. I chose the art spreadsheet. I find the spreadsheet itself easy, but the web research was quite difficult because not every gallery has all the information I want listed on the internet.

I typed at the beginning of the session.

I had been working on making slides about autism for the rest of the time.

Today I continued to work on the Project Inception lab, and I took a Percipio benchmark test.

We logged into Homebase to clock-in. We took a look at the articles that were auto-posted in Slack. Then we logged into the VPN and Remote Desktop to create two Bodhi Virtual Machines as part of Project Inception – Phase 2. I got up to step 15 and will continue tomorrow. We also took two skill benchmark tests in Percipio-CompTIA A+ Core 2 Literacy Benchmark (Beginner Level) and Technology Essentials.

We continued working on the labs from last week. I created a new ticket, “Project Inception,” and updated it with notes from labs. In today’s lab, I completed working on Bodhi VMs and moved to Debian. I had the instructor review both VMs.

I participated in a group setting, answering questions about job searching and

what I am looking for in employment. I prepared a reference worksheet for resume building and cover letters.

We had an introduction to Professional Networking.

I learned how to improve my resume, and then made alterations.

I found some new clues for a job search on LinkedIn.

We got to know our targets by making small groups and chatting.

We practiced a part of a mock interview.

EMP

Today we watched the employment services presentation and was assigned a Job Log Template. I entered the first 9 items on my spreadsheet with links to the documents. I read some of the article explaining good questions to some of the top interview questions. We practiced some interview questions in the group after some ice breakers where we also networked with peers on LinkedIn. Also worked in Percipio for about 45 minutes.