Taking stock of where you are: what have you accomplished this module? What have you learned? Where are you stuck (have you not been able to follow through on outreach? Is your resume not finished?)?
- Resume and Cover letter are finished and I have done some outreach. Project work has taken up the time i had intended to spend doing some adjustments to all of my files, however this project is looking to be included in my resume.
Create plans for 3 different companies you want to target:
Questions to reflect on here: Why do you like this company? What makes you want to work there? Why are you a good fit for this company? What do you bring to the company? What transferable skills do you have? What do you already know about the company (product, team, culture, company size, location, etc.)? What do you need to learn? Steps to take: Outreach: look at the company’s LinkedIn page: who could you reach out to? What questions do you want to ask that person? Experience: once you’ve made a connection at the company, how could you find out more? Consider setting up a job shadow or exploring their tech stack in your projects Read back over the plan. How does it reflect your vision? Imagine that you get the job. A year later, what have you gained from this experience? How have you started to fulfill your vision?
Plan #1: I want to do another look into Handshake with the new information from the PD classes and compare the goals for mentorship at a job to the actual practice of the company.
Plan #2: I want to look at creating a schedule of tasks needed for research into a job so that I can apply a workflow when i get more time to research a borader spectrum of companies.
Plan #3: I really would like to make a new cover letter that is more general to be used as a template and adapt to other jobs.
Make it actionable: rank each plan on a scale of 1-5 for how much your plan aligns with the following: Available resources to help you pursue it: contacts, time, knowledge of the company, etc. Coherence: how it aligns with your career vision Confidence level: how feasible does this feel to you? How excited you are about it?