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Mod 3 Week 1 Career Journal Prompts/Tasks

Mod 3 Week 1 prompts

Refine your career vision: What are the values that will drive your job search? What are your goals for your job search? What kind of role do you see yourself pursuing in your job search? Based on your latest version of your career vision, list the top 3-5 industries and companies you’ll pursue in your job search as of right now. Why did you pick these industries/companies? How do they relate to the values and goals you have for yourself in your job search?

In terms of values, I don't want to be in an industry I have no care for whatsoever or does not resonate with me as a person. Being a developer for a home inspection company or a gym for example gives me no joy. At their core, I would like to think that my values are humanistic in that I want to help people in meaningful ways. Since a lot of my personal experiences are from living abroad, some type of job dealing with education and exposure to different ideas and culture would be interesting. As far as potential industries, I think the following are decent starts

  1. Education
  2. Traveling
  3. Gaming

The first two are directly related to my own experiences traveling. The third is because I find a lot of enjoyment in gaming and have always wanted to step into the industry in some capacity. Furthermore, my values also rely on a balance between, what's fun, and what's educational, and how can we combine those?

Build your resume

What will you emphasize in your resume that directly relates to your targeted industries?

  • My need to help people, and my remote experiences

Pick a template from those listed in the Templates section here

link to resume

  • Upload your resume to CV Compiler

Based on the feedback you received from CV Compiler, what updates will you make to your resume?

I updated my resume as I went through the notes. However, when uploading it for the second review, I received largely the same weaknesses. Looking deeper, it says there are things like, broken links or phone numbers that are missing but are actually listed.

Set up your Turing Alumni Portfolio:

Log in with the link you got in your email. Going forward, log in at alumni.turing.io/user

  • Currently, the Turing Alumni site does not save any information I put in even in Safari

Reflection questions:

What do you want this portfolio to say about you?

That I'm a well-balanced worker that's excited to learn more about coding, whether that React or whatever.

How will you continue to add to this to portray your story and showcase the kind of work that demonstrates your brand?\

Use my past experiences to relate how I solve problems and then relate that work to what employers are looking for Ian’s workshop this week is designed to help you break down your interest in specific industries even further by exploring their tech stacks to decide if you want to utilize any of their tools in upcoming projects. Make a copy of his template here and post a link to your copy here to show what research you’ve completed. You can also link this research to your Huntr board.

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