CTP Skill Center

I had a blast in Employment Services today. I realized I needed to switch over my email to be more professional and regained access to my oldest email and realized how many benefits google has implemented. The most convenient is the ability to trash the entire inbox and unsubscribe from emails without having to go through every single email. I also really enjoyed the random interview questions to give us more natural rhythm instead of sounding like AI bots. The shift today was just very beautiful and felt like employees getting to know each other without too much!

I was late today due to a misunderstanding, but we worked it out and it’s ok. I mostly worked on interview questions and answers, both written and oral. The oral interview practice was with unconventional questions and unscripted answers, which was actually surprisingly fun. See y’all in SJS!

Employment services were fun today. We talked about handling work place arguments smartly that protects our jobs. Then we worked on document lab where I tried to wrangle some of my interview answers into STARS with real examples instead of academic treatises. And make it fit what I’d say instead of the medium of writing, where you can be more formal and wordy.

Then we got to do some weird out of the box questions like “What song do you feel confident about singing at karaoke” and “What kind of crayon are you?” Of course they’re not normal interview questions that we’re likely to see but it was good way to break down barriers, feel more natural, spontaneous, and not rely on canned responses that we had scripted out. Plus it made the group a lot more fun as we all got to hear and react to everyone’s fun and different answers. And brought us closer together.

This is the last class before a week off. And Also the last class that Sam, Alex, and Tiye are in before they move onto SJS. It’s bittersweet, as time often brings. But it puts things into perspective: It’s been a fun month and the future is only looking brighter and brighter.

Now that we’ve graduated from PRO training, I have more time to focus on job search. I’m looking to multi-track my efforts, working primarily on getting my first Salesforce Admin experience. As well, I will try to look for local or remote work that doesn’t require future certification. I’m excited about it.

Today, I worked on my “Salesforce” resume to get some more grammatical errors cleared and the language more tight and consistent. I have also found an opportunity in Berkeley that is unrelated to Salesforce, so I worked on the sample cover letter format so I will be ready to apply for that job.

Earlier today, we did a scenario covering workplace conflict. The project management/software engineering one was an interesting look at how things can go wrong in the PM field when people don’t communicate in a professional way.

Finally, we did some fun Q&A questions to stay off the Interview script we have been working on. It was way more fun to conduct our final Friday of ES class. I’m looking forward to SJS on Monday and following up on the next steps in my career journey.

September 25, 2026: I had a fun time with Carrie’s non-traditional interview questions today! There were some very interesting questions that tested my interview confidence, such as “Tell me a joke”, or “If you could confidently sing any song during a karaoke, which song would it be?”

September 21-25, 2026: This week was quite the week for me, especially since it was the wrap-up week for September! I did some challenges with Google Docs and Google Sheets, had a nice celebration with the students who graduated at the end of this month, and some fun interview questions with Carrie.