CTP Skill Center

Today, we spent the whole session working on our partitions project. I successfully installed Windows on the VM as instructed, and then I made a clone. Tomorrow I will try installing a different OS . . .

We started off doing our lab for disk partitioning. I am so confused about what I am doing, but we got a rundown on how to combine the systems. I am hoping that tomorrow, with a fresh brain, I can do it. We were supposed to have our check-ins, which are happening tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new start.

Started the day with typing practice. I am getting better! The rest of the day, we worked on our Core Portfolios for graduation. I am enjoying the assignment as I am practicing all I’ve learned from the very beginning. Thanks, CTP!

I worked on my portfolio.

Mike helped me update my LinkedIn photo.

Reworked some of my slides to create a more appropriate 30 second elevator chat.

We reviewed the Core Training Portfolio. The project provided the opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned and what we’ve found most valuable, the skills we’ve gained, and how best to present ourselves as job candidates and as the interesting and talented individuals we are.

Today I particularly focused on what things I learned during training?)

Google Suite (Sheets & Docs & Meet)

Tailoring efforts to the best-fit position & networking

Interviewing Prep, Practice & Q&A 

Employment Search Sites

Customer Service

I also began completing many other slides.

I learned how to edit my photo from LinkedIn. Thanks to Mike. It was and had been frustrating to the point of giving it up.

I worked on my Core Training Portfolio. I hadn’t realized just how much I’ve retained information-wise. I hope to be a little more elaborative in my description of what I’ve done during class.

Today was a free elective day. But not for the soon-to-be graduates, including me. I can’t believe that this is the third month of being in CTP classes. I have a lot to be grateful for. I love my teachers and how patient and knowledgeable they are. We graduates work on our CORE Training portfolios for graduation day. We have until Thursday to work on and complete them. I decided to use a template that Marc recommended last week. The app is called Slides Carnival. I really like how you can import the slides to Google Sheets. I’m about 30% done. Lastly, we post our blogs on what we did today.

I started the day by clocking in with Homebase. I created a new ticket on osTicket for this week’s lab, which is Computer Hardware. I did a pre-lab on Computer Hardware, where I had to answer a few questions and define the terms. Then I started working on the project during class. Then I did the Percipio Benchmark I scored 83, even though I didn’t get there yet. At the end of the day, I did a “What did I do today?” post, then I clocked out of Homebase.

Practiced typing for 15 minutes. Mike went over the Core Portfolio us, who are on our third month doing Core, have to present on graduation day. Spent the time starting the slideshow, like what we were doing before CTP, what skills I learned. It’s a great assignment, as we can see ourselves before and after CTP.

It was a little unusual to have homework over the weekend, but I did manage to complete the Percipio course in Word365 Mail Merge. I submitted the screenshot with my passing score first thing in the morning. I thought the course was straightforward but the course test was too tricky, asking us to put the vaguely described steps in each mail merge procedure in exact order. Nevertheless, I was happy with my passing score. Now I feel like I can run a mail merge in MS Word.

Unfortunately, I then forgot to check into Homebase on time, clocking in almost an hour late. I put up a sticky note reminder on my computer to try to remember going forward.

Otherwise, I was pretty excited this week is meant for electives. I had been working on Salesforce CRM for a few months, and completed a number of badges and trails on Salesforce Trailhead. I had an interview with a Salesforce blogger this morning to describe my activities and progress learning about this widely used CRM platform. Fortunately, the extra time allotted for electives allowed me to easily complete 2 or 3 advanced badges dealing with Prompt Builder and Flows when designing in Agentforce Builder (AI agency and subagents for the fictitious company Coral Resorts).

I’m excited for class to be over and I hope I can use this week to get better exercise in my off-time and feel better across the board.