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30-Day Action Plan Checklist

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Cut-off date for having a full time position?

I'm not going to have a cut off date until I have a job.

List Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Goals

My goal is to make small steps to getting a job, and not just apply to a multitude of places until something pans out.

Daily:

Working on JavaScript and fixing old projects, while continuing to learn new technologies that I'm interested in

Weekly:

Going to meet-ups, and trying to meet people from different companies and establish a presence in the Denver area tech scene.

Monthly:

Hopefully getting in person interviews and some techincal interviews or code challenges for jobs.

Daily Practice Repo

Practice Plan on fine tunning my JavaScript skills.

Three People To Reach Out To

Susi Irwin- met her at job shadow she was very knowledgeable and encouraged us to reach out to her for job help. Dan Winter- he's a former Turing grad and I reached out to him to meet up and get some job advice

Three Meet Ups You'll Attend

The React meet up. At the beginning they always talk about job postings, and I really enjoy working with React.

List job Search Tracking System

Job track. We had to sign up for it in one of the PD sessions. I haven't had much time to look into it other than when I signed up for it. I will utilize that help with the job search.

List 2-3 Areas You'd Like to Continue To Improve For Interviewing

Getting better at JavaScript through excerisms, code wars, and the Turing practice repos. Interview questions. Speaking about technical topics with proper vernacular, and confidience

Turing Portfolio Has 3 Projects

Yes

Summary How You've Updated Your LinkedIn Profile

Started to post about about I've been doing in school Reaching out and connecting with people that work at intersting companies

List 1-2 People You'll Check In With During Job Search

Ian Douglas was my career coach and probably do some more interview practice with him. Robbie also said he'd have time next mod to help run practice interviews.

List 1-2 Barriers During Job Hunt

Discouragement. Putting in the effort and not seeing any results would be pretty tough to handle. But continuing to push through and putting in the work.

Supporting Chorortmates in Job Search

List 1-2 people from PD Peer Group You Will Continue to Check in With

Probably Julie and Jason because we were both in the same program and are very close and familiar with each other.

Describe One Area of the Job Search You Particularly Skilled In

Reaching out to people I don't know. I'm not afraid to reach out to people I don't know, and would help classmates draft messages and emails.

List People to Whom You Will Reccomend Your Cohortmates to

I can't think of anyone at this time. If I met a person and did something one of my cohortmates was passionate about I'd definitely try and make a connection.  

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