CTP Skill Center

Today I was in Employment Services with Carrie. She told us Delta Dental was coming on Wednesday for the mock interviews. She had us do a Company Research Assignment on Delta Dental to help us learn about the company before the interviews. We also worked on the interview questions and answers. Those can be stressful at first. Carrie gives us a FUN question first to help us loosen up before starting the interview questions. It definitely helps. I also worked on my resume and cover letter.

Today, I learned how to answer mock interview questions better from other students within the class. I learned that the best interviewee is someone who doesn’t read off from what they’ve written on paper, but uses their mental to answer questions.

Today, I started the class by doing research on a company that I will be mock interviewing with next week. Then I worked on improving my cover letter and linkedin profile. Then I practiced interview questions with my co-workers.

Today I learned that being confident in my capabilities is important. I also learned that we will be practicing professional skills each Friday, such as drafting resumes and cover letters, and practicing with mock interviews.

Today in class, we worked on things from our job logs. Then we went over the interview questions. And to finish off class, we worked on our assessment and our what we did today.

I worked on my interview questions. I also worked on company research today.

Today was the first day of Employment Services. The CTT team joined with others to discuss interview questions and develop a job log.

Short update today because today was dedicated to Employment Services.

Sidenote: I think VMM was deleted from my CTP VM? Not sure what happened there. Hopefully next week will provide some answers.

Today, we started with typing practice. It really helps to practice every day in class. Today, we worked on the UCSF Clinical Nurse Wage Table Project. Google Sheets are challenging, and I was happy to work on them today. I had some struggles with merging cells and alignment. Mike showed me how to do it. I will continue to work in Google Sheets to become proficient in using them.

Today, I worked on data entry for a wage spreadsheet. I had to create and structure borders and use functions to complete certain parts of the spreadsheet. I also worked on typing, which I need to improve more on i.e not using 1 fingers on a keyboard to type things out. I also completed my monthly evaluation for class month, which I stated that I believe I am making good progress towards my career goal.

I learned about how to send a Progress Report about our Skillsoft progress (hours), and I learned how to schedule posts through email and schedule posts through Slack. Also, I learned that there are different tabs in your workstation when signed in to the Virtual Machine, and you can migrate between two tabs. Lastly, I learned how to create a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox.