CTP Skill Center

Today was Employment services . I worked om my Resume i feel it is ready to be looked at for improvement.

The new part of the class was professional networking. we practice just simply talking to each other in a professional way

We did the mail merge today. I totally did not get it until the final step were we attached the spreadsheet to the letter. I did all the steps but practiced with chat gpt individually to undurstand and grasp it. I messed myself up in cunfusion with all the open tabs I had I realized that many of the tabs were the exact document or spreadsheet already open in several other tab already. and still other open tabs had previous versions of those. Since this lesson consisted of 3 or 4 documents to make the merge. I accidentally used previous versions of the documents and got all confused. BUT I COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT I HAD DONE BECAUSE EVERYTHING ON MY GOOGLE DRIVE IS ORGANIZED AND WELL LABELED. i hate my life

I worked on the VirtualBox. i also used Remote Desktop Connection.

We started the day with a exciting new project which was mail merging project. Took a data set with 491 tables and it modified the letters to include making the letter heads and address change from letter to letter through the mail merge extension add on. Which i never heard of this concept before this project. It was very interesting and learned a lot as a result of working on it. Could see how it was transferrable into a office admin position or something along those lines.

Today, we worked on the mail merge project, which proved to be a powerful and useful tool. In the final hour, we spent time taking targeted email courses that were recommended based on my benchmark scores.

I continue to work on my Google slides portfolio. I made progress on my project.

At the end of class we spent time on our weekly tech articles.

Today I worked more on my Core Training Portfolio slides and was able to touch it up some more. Then I presented my article for the week, and it went well. Nothing of note was a challenge except figuring out five skills I practiced. I look forward to next week when we can go back into doing tech related labs and projects.

I was given a slightly different task for my 3rd hour today. I am to enter emails for many entries of our DEI list that lack any. I was suggested to use ChatGPT, as it would find leads for potential emails fast. In one case, the emails I saw were fake, so I didn’t enter them.

We worked on the Donor Letter Project as a group and Marc showed us what to do. He taught us how to mail merge which was not as hard as I thought it would. I also learned about to split text into columns, inserting a row and the Proper formula in Google Sheets. I took a skill benchmark test on email productivity. I did okay. I started one of the recommended courses and can finish it on Monday. My typing score was low today and I will try to improve it next week.

I did fantastic on typing test

Today we worked on mail merge together

I took a benchmark and didn’t do so good.

watched recommended videos re: benchmark.