CTP Skill Center

This week was a Mock Interview Heavy week at BerkMart/CTP. I think I was on-time most, if not all of the time. Since we covered What I did this week on Wednesday, I will mostly write about how Mock Interviews went and our Employment Services time with Carrie today.

I had a really good first interview yesterday, where I was able to draw from my experience and relate to the interviewer more directly. The answers I gave were concise and when I didn’t directly use the STAR method, she reminded me during my feedback time how to answer some of the questions and improve my chances of landing a job.

The second interview was tougher, normally from what I experience on 2x Interview days. It seemed as though we ran out of time to get complete feedback. As well, I felt to a large degree that I was repeating myself or the plan for the narrative didn’t go the way I wanted.

Today in ES we watched Devin’s video on Job Search websites, followed by searching some of the websites for our job search ourselves. I also did an exercise where we updated a bad, phony resume. I learned a few things on how to improve my resume (finally!) and will be taking it to the Bank. I also did some individual interview practice with Antonio from ES.

I absolutely loved class today (and this week)! Working on resume editing opened my eyes to the possibilities and references to information I did not know at all. Elizabeth made amazing suggestions giving me knowledge I didn’t even realize was possible, THANK YOU!!! Checking in on interview questions really aided my responses. Pranay was a wonderful teammate who aided me in being concise in my responses. Thank you team!!!

We had a presentation on different job board sites. I tried workforgood.org and idealist.org. Out of the two, I prefer Idealist. The workforgood is tiny and somewhat complicated. We then worked on our resume, and I finally came up with an objective. We then went into breakout rooms and interviewed each other. I liked that experience because I got to know Jasper a little more and also got to see the other side of interviewing. When I have a chance to jump out of my introvert self is always a fun experience.

Started the day by clocking in with Homebase. Then I watched a video about how to job search using Indeed and different websites. We went over a random person’s resume and saw what the mistake was. Also, I worked on my resume. We had an icebreaker before we started the practice interview questions, then I went into a breakout room and practiced one-on-one interview questions. Today was a fun and easy day.

8.21.2026

Today we had more practice with mock interviews and group questions to answer. The mock interview I had with Alex was informative and gave me a better idea of how to star method. Also, this week I was able to complete 3 hours of outside study time. We also worked on one lab in class in the CTT class on how to build an HTML website and a bit of coding.

Today I explored SimplyHired and Dice, did some resumé tune-up, and some interview practice as well. I got some good feedback in interview practice that I can use going forward.

Today we did resume and interview questions with each other. The resume workshop was good I will defiently add more to my resume. The interview was awesome it was good to ask questions and to talk to my classmates on this as well.

August 21, 2026: Today, I learned some more about what to include in a resume, and what not to include. I also practiced some interviewing skills and questions with the class.

August 17-21, 2026: This week, I did some work on a lab project, worked on Percipio, did a couple of mock interviews, and practiced some more interview questions.

August 20, 2026: Today, I went through two mock interviews. The first round I was a little hesitant like last week, but I feel like I did much better the second round. I still have to expand a bit on my responses.

Today I presented my article about Commodore, which was fun. José showed us some strange old code they used for the AmigaOS. For the remainder of the day, I worked on my HTML project. I got my Debian VM up and running, and I ran some preliminary configuration tests.