The second week has come to a close and the third has begun. The course is beginning to increase in challenge and this week presents the first project dedicated week. Projects are real world specifications focusing on concepts recently covered in class. The first project in the .NET curriculum is a Customized Framework project. Project specs are handed out the Friday before allowing students to begin working on the project through the weekend if they so choose. While in a project week no lectures are given however Teacher Assistants are available for support should any questions or needs arise. This week Charlie Filippo will be present in the .NET class acting in this support capacity.
From the Career Development (CD) side, 3 workshops were offered last week; resume, job search, and networking. According to the CD roadmap and timeline, the first focus should be the resume. In light of this, students were encouraged to attend the resume workshop if their personal schedule permitted. If not, there will be multiple opportunities for future resume workshops including one next week. In addition to the workshops, students were invited to an internal SetFocus SharePoint page containing a video on-demand library and support documents for the varying tools.
Samples of the video on-demands include:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- LinkedIn Overview and Profile
- LinkedIn Groups and Searching
- LinkedIn SlideShare
- Portfolio
- Networking and 60 Second Commercial
- Before an Interview
- During an Interview
- Interview Follow Up
- RSS Feeds
- Job Searching and Engagement
Next week brings us to the quarter mark of the program and a week full of fresh opportunity and knowledge!