Monday, July 26, 2010

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.