CTP Skill Center

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.

Started off the day by clocking into HomeBase. Then we jumped into our lab for this week. I got done with the pre-lab part, so tomorrow I can jump into the main thing. Then we did a Benchmark test. Then we ended the day by doing our “What I did today” post before clocking out of HomeBase for the day.

Today I learned some key computer hardware terms. I worked on the partition lab, and so far so good. I also took my first benchmark assessment and scored a 32, which is about what I expected. I know I still have a long way to go, and that’s ok. I’ll get there . . .

Today, my main responsibilities as an administrative associate are my daily task for the day to research and post job listings onto the CTP skill center website, and my main task for the day is to research general emails and contact information for foundations from a provided list and then send email messages to the applicable foundations. I logged more general emails and site forms for provided foundations to be contacted, filtered out foundations without proper contact sites and general emails and messaged around 6 more foundations using the provided email template.

We started off making sure we sent our tech articles in Slack. We refreshed ourselves with the OS Ticket and started a new ticket for the new week. Our lab this week is for computer management and learning where the files go and how to allocate space for them in virtual machines. We just got started, so was not able to get too far. Then we did a benchmark for CompTIA A+ Core 2 Literacy Benchmark (Beginner Level). I got 67, so apparently the presipio videos are paying off.

Today was another awesome day! Wonderful to learn about so many scam job situations and how to monitor and handle them. Additionally, the Job Log is a valuable resource for reviewing my efforts and staying focused on my moves for employment. The class, in general, is helping me feel a lot more positive and hopeful about returning to work. In fact, I feel a lot more confident and informed about the steps to take towards success, and even see “failures” as positive lessons.

One of the most valuable takeaways was the presentation of fraudulent job listings and how to spot them.

Employment Services Presentation (2:00 – 2:50 PM)

• Employment Services Presentation
• New students, staff will provide access to your Job Log
• Staff, to prepare a Job Log for a new participant…
  1. Open the Job Log Template
  2. Make a copy (File → Make a copy)
  3. Rename document with the participant’s name and remove the word Template
  4. Move the document (Shared Drives ► Supported Job Search ► Student Documents)
  5. Share the document with the participant’s professional Gmail account

Professional Documents Labs (3:00 – 3:50 PM)

Make sure these are linked in your job log

• Writing Your Resume
• Writing Your Cover Letter
• LinkedIn Profile Development
• Preparing your Traditional Interview Q&A
• Reasonable accommodation Template

Interview Practice (4:00 – 4:45 PM)

• Interview Practice & Interactive Labs

Wrap-Up (4:45 – 5:00 PM)

• Self-assessment survey
  • CTT Self-Assessment
  • PRO Self-Assessment
• What I did this week (WordPress Login Page)

Friday class schedule: Alternating weeks

Video Recorded Interview Sessions (3:00 – 4:45 PM)

• Video Recorded Interview Session Overview
• Conducting Video Recorded Interviews (Staff)
• Mock Job Application (Coming Soon)

Additional Resources

• Job Search Engines, Links, and Resources
• EMP Mock Interview Prep (staff)
• Media/Appearance Release Form
• Tech Interview Scoring and Evaluation (staff)