CTP Skill Center

For homework due today, I completed a Percipio Skillsoft course on managing the calendar in Outlook 365. I’ve never used Outlook before, to my knowledge, and it seems more difficult to learn than Google Calendar. The questions for the course test were also quite difficult, so I was happy to be done with that course.

At the beginning of class, we worked on typing and then transitioned to two projects at Sunshine Express. First, we put together a WordPress bio and added a Customer Service Representative entry to the WordPress Sunshine Express page. Then, we practiced a couple Point of Sale scenarios using the Square store for Sunshine Express.

We didn’t have a lot on the schedule this week, so we are adding a freestyle Canva presentation assignment due Thursday. I played around with Canva AI a little bit, but I couldn’t really decide what subject I should do my presentation on. So, in the meantime, I worked on putting my online flyers together with an email to my instructors, scheduled to be sent out on Thursday.

September 14, 2026: Today, I attempted to do the pre-lab for this week. There were some key terms I encountered before, which was a good refresher. I then watched a very helpful presentation by Jose in which I learned all about networking and IP addresses.

Hello world, it is I Jasper. Today was really fun I did editing for CTP on Davinci Resolve. I messed up a bit but that’s okay we all make mistakes and this is just training. Anyways if you mess up I know it feels like the world is ending. But the world is still around and every mistake is just a learning thing for your body and mind. It’s just some lessons are more painful than others. Some mistakes are more fun and it’s like an aha moment. Anyways you got this.

Yesterday, we had mock interviews with Mechanics Bank. I got plenty of good feedback for putting in the effort, but I need to make my responses more personable, and I should “relax and be myself”. It’s a general problem feeling prepared and improvising the answers.

Today in ES class, we went through searching for volunteer opportunities on Idealist.org. I went looking for basic Salesforce Admin jobs that I could take my CRM knowledge and improve my career positioning. The two organizations I found were Army Pink and ILevelUP.

Finally, we did some more interview Q&A preparation, where I immediately refreshed my answers and used some of the feedback to edit my responses. In the future, I think improving my recent work history combined with getting the interview practice will lead to better opportunities, unpaid or paid.

Today I got to work on my Interview Questions and Answers. I still need to work on using less-self critical language and be better at framing things in ways that don’t possibly raise red flags (as Alex helpfully pointed out saying I do “Root Cause Analysis” is better than “going down rabbit holes.”)

We also did some mock interview questions (on top of what we did yesterday) and while I struggled with some I think it helped me figure out some avenues that I didn’t think of before. They still need refinement, but they could sparkle. Maybe.

This week was my first non-orientation week. I felt like it went well and I’m really enjoying the class and my fellow students. Mock Interviews were the Big Bad for me going into them but I found them to be a lot more enjoyable and easier than I originally thought. And this is only the first time. Even though I’m still not a big fan of this kind of stuff, it’s great to grow and find out that I’m not going to “crash and burn” as my darker thoughts tried to tell me.

Today I was able to work on learning about different volunteer opportunities that are remote and have different time commitments and workdays. It was fun learning about the different volunteer opportunities. I was able to continue working on the questions and answer assignment, which I feel is close to being complete. This week I worked on studying for 3 hours outside of class and was able to complete some more chapters in the Skillsoft courses for various IT-related subjects. As well as work on the project inception round 2 lab, which I was able to get further into this week.

Today I was late to class but very happy to catch up on what I missed. The volunteer information gave amazing insight on the benefits of volunteering, not just the effort towards helping people but the benefits and opportunity to learn and improve oneself! Our looking over interview questions and checking in was very nice and wonderful to learn different ways to answer questions completely yet concisely. Thank you all for your dedication to teamwork and moving forward!