Workready Final Session

I. Is it really over?
- a. Where have we been?
- b. Where are we going?

II. Discuss practice interviews.
- a. Difficult or hard?

III. WhyHire.Me teaches students how to use social media to enhance careers and web presence. How can we use the information in the video to improve our blogs?


IV. Resumes and Cover Letters - Let's continue to search for new IT resources, but here are a few links to help with the...
...Resume:
- Resume Ideas
...Cover Letter:
- AIE
These links are full of great words to use in resume and cover letter:
- a. Actions by Skill
- b. Other Verbs
- c. More Verbs
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Workready Training: Session Three

I. Lets review the past and share our work experiences.

II. Where do we stand?
- a. Check in with me or your Mentor to get help with Blogfolio.

III. How can we showcase our work from the bITs program?
- a. Write a blog about your bITs experience and provide a link to your group Blog page. Viewers can easily connect with samples of your work and record of your time with bITs.

IV. Request for a letter of Recommendation.
-a. In order to Build our Information Technology Skills: lets use the internet as a way to find answers for questions we have about these activities.
- - For instance, you want to know how to format your request. You could google "format for requesting recommendation" and check out results. Or you could utilize some of the links provided on this BLOG and other sites.
Here are three different sites: see which are most helpful or least helpful.
Letter of recommendation, Obtaining a reference, a third how-to.

V. Interview Time: PREPARE!
- a. How do we dress, talk, and act?
- b. Interview questions: Practice navigating the internet to find a list of common interview questions. (hint: Check the 'Portfolio Information' tab.) Try to answer as many questions as you can inorder to practice. Pick a few and blog about them.
- c. In small groups, practice answering these questions. Start by asking one person and then they ask another, and so on. Later, Blog about your Interview.

Workready Training: Second Session

At our Second meeting: Starting the Digital Portfolio!
Click here for an Sample Portfolio

I. A quick review of the highlights from last weeks training.
- a. Do we remember which four states all touch at the same point?
- b. What are "codes" and how do we use them?
- - - At work, we must remember to be using appropriate language, behavior, and looking professional.
- c. Workready Video
- d. What are SMART goals?
- Recall your goals from last week.

II. How can we obtain our goals?
- a. Career Ladders
- - 1. How do we gain experience? full page resume!?
- b. Networking
- - 1. "The Intern becomes the Professional."

III. Achieving goals proactively.
- a. SMART Goal Plan
- b. Mission Statement
- C. Career Ladders
- - 1. How do we gain experience? Full page resume!?
- D. Networking
- - 1. "The Intern becomes the Professional."
- - 2. Patience and Persistence - For 10 years the Eagles New General Manager responded to every rejection with a 'thank you' note, until he finnally got the job.
- - 3. Letter of Appreciation



IV. Post Secondary Education Research
- a. What are the tools?
- b. What are the results?

Workready Training: First Session

On the first day of training:

I. We will establish a group climate that will set the momentum for the remainder of the program.
- a. Introductions will begin the session. Going around the room each person will introduce and make a statement about themselves.
- b. Mapping Activity. How well do we know our country? Working together toward the completion of an activity can improve our geographic understanding and cooperation skills. The mapping activity will include each intern receiving a map of the United States of America. The maps will be blank, except for the outlines of each state. Interns (and mentors) are invited to try completing the map.
- 1. Which state is completely divided into two separate land masses by a body of water?
- 2. Can we name and identify all the Great Lakes?
- 3. Where was the Exxon Valdez oil spill? the on-going BP spill?

II. Workready - Portfolio Training. Now that a group learning atmosphere is established, we will review the program. Why is workready paying for them to participate in bITs? What is expected of a bITs Intern? What do the Interns expect from bITs?
a. Practice: fill out paper application.

III. Career Interest Survey. [Pages 5-6 of Exploration.pdf]
- a. Students are each given a 64 question survey to assess their interests and potential career paths.
- b. The survey then provides the students with a short description of the different fields and potential course work.
- 1. Individual student career goals are shared and discussed.

IV. How do we get these careers?
- a. Goal Plan - SMART GOALS (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, Time-oriented)
- b. Interview - Dressing the part, talking the talk, and good behavior. What are "codes?" What verbal and non-verbal codes do we use?