CTP Skill Center

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!

September 11, 2026: Today, I did some practice with finding some volunteering opportunities, and some more interview questions.

September 8-11, 2026: I had a good Labor Day, but a real hassle rose between then and today, and it wasn’t the heat. My internet was experiencing outages during those days. Still, that didn’t stop me from going to a relative’s house to attend class and do pretty well during the mock interviews!

September 10, 2026: Today, I did a couple of mock interviews with Beni and Richard. I think I did a bit better on the first mock interview because I was more energetic at that time. Still, I think I did a pretty good job, nonetheless.

I posted 3 jobs today; one was a customer service job that was remote. Trying some of the not-so-used search engines, and I wasn’t impressed with Manpower, Employbridge, and Milestone Technologies. Manpower is good if you are looking for temp work, but most of the places are not temp-to-hire; they are like 6 months of work, and that is what we need. The other two are hard to maneuver in and can’t really search for certain jobs. But you can take some of the jobs and look up the companies or what they are expecting, and look on other sites for similar jobs.

https://weworkremotely.com/ is a good search engine for remote jobs. Do not be afraid to scroll down because they do have good ones, but they are not always on top.