CTP Skill Center

September 18, 2026: Today, I practiced some more interview skills and questions with the instructor. I had a lot of fun today, as the class and I had some funny reactions towards some of the behavioral questions. That video of Michael operating the forklift carelessly was hilarious!

September 14-18, 2026: This week, I did a fun lab project, a couple of mock interviews, and some interview questions. I had a great time in class this week!

I had Employment Services time with Carrie today. I had to come in late, but I was happy to work a little bit on my resume and prepare my interview questions. I updated my Objective to something more in line with the special skills I have and the jobs I’m aiming to apply for. There’s plenty for me to do on my job related documents and mock interview prep, but showing up for practice definitely helps build my confidence.

This week in PRO training, we worked on Canva to make the CTP flyer and any presentation we wanted to make. My presentation evolved into an ice cream selling presentation. I felt like I could do a better job with communicating my ideas in the slides as well as during the presentation. Now the week is over, I’m looking forward to mock interviews next week as well as the Celebration on Thursday.

Today we analyzed fictional workplace situations, which was very engaging, interesting, and important. I worked on my portfolio presentation, then did some helpful interview practice.

Today was so awesome! Interview questions were so helpful and some of them helped me realize challenges regarding certain answers. It is also wonderful to hear my shift team’s answers to find important improvements for myself and my words! I also enjoyed working on resume items and linkedin items (plus internship updates). I’m really excited and feel like I’m actually moving forward with success. Thank you Carrie!

9 18 2026

Today we worked on a practice resume as a group and improved it through collaboration. Then I worked on the resume more for part of class today. I got further into it. This week I was able to do three hours of outside study time and worked on the network labs during the week.

Yesterday we did more mock interviews, which again wasn’t so bad. Which shows the first wasn’t a fluke. Today we worked on employment services so we went through scenarios on the job and also did some more mock interview questions. They were tough but any practice is good practice.

This morning I had to dart into the city for an appointment and walked right by and being reminded of the Dream Force conference and exhibition for Salesforce. I came home and watched some of the marketing keynote speeches online on how AI driven campaigns are working right now.

Then, at class time we were split into a breakout room, because CTT was busy with Delta Dental doing mock interviews. Tiye and I went through our accountability assignments – the flyers we found from the real world to share and critique what we found. My flyers were on a Berkeley Job Fair at Ashby station, the FERA energy discount program through PG&E, and

Then, we had enough time before break to go over our Canva presentations. Mine was on “How to Sell Ice Cream” and even though my overall plan to sell seemed to fall short, I still enjoy ice cream and would be interested in learning more. I definitely learned how to use Canva templates to complete presentations, and use the edit features to change or update content as needed.

Great day today. We went over our flyers for accountability and it was a blast. I also enjoyed our Canva slides presentations and well as the ability to give sourdough starter and discard updates. Alex’s ice cream presentation was awesome lessons to learn and got to learn a lot about ice cream companies making it throughout the years. Ready for interviews next week and ready for SJS coming up soon!