Group Members: John T., Allison W., Raisa P., Scott E.
Schedule for weekly meetings and regular Stand Ups (must have 1 weekly meeting and at least 2 Stand Ups a week): Be prepared to come up with 2-3 different times in case groups overlap so that Tracey can meet with all groups.
- 1pm, Monday's, Turing (somewhere)
- Wednesday, Friday on slack.
- What do we want to work on together for technical practice? Suggestions: group code challenges/project work/code reviews:
- Allison: Resolve open issues on old projects
- Raisa: Side project work, code review
- Scott: Side project work
- John: Code Challenges, project together
- How we will hold each other accountable to this technical work:
- Share technical portion at each weekly meeting
- Set goals for the next week
- Agenda for each meeting with questions to answer
- Group member strengths for supporting each other in the job search (what can we each help our group with?):
- John: Logic problems, breaking them down.
- Allison: Strong Listener, meet up and do non job search stuff.
- Scott: Behavioral interviews.
- Raisa: Code challenges.
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What does everyone need in terms of self-care and support:
- Systems, people, activities for mental health support: Check back in on this later
- Systems, people, activities for physical health support: Same as above YOGA
- How we will hold each other accountable to using these supports: Use the agenda to check in on mental health, physical heath, interviews (pre-written check in questions), celebrating wins
- Group meeting structures (what will we work on/discuss during group meetings?):
- Use our agenda to ask all relevant questions
- Rotating leaders for the meeting.
- Check in on current jobs and status of applications
- Check in on future prospects
Suggestions: Finding jobs/companies, working on cover letters, finding company contacts, creating messages, finding contact info, etc.
- How we will hold each other accountable to following through on action steps:
- Rotating leaders
- How we will communicate if someone needs to miss a meeting:
- Slack, group text
- Stand Up discussions (what specific questions will we use in our Stand Ups twice a week?):
- Stand Up #1:
- Any specific requests for help
- Whats current application are you working on
- counts of rejections, applications, etc
- Stand Up #2:
- Final reflection on the week, assess your process, goals for monday
- Monday, 1pm create the calendar and show it off by this time.
- Create a calendar. Each group member should create a schedule for when they will be doing the following activities each day:
- Coding/technical work
- Company research
- Outreach emails/respond to emails
- Coffee meetings/phone calls
- Meetups
- Applications (cover letters, resume)
- Wellness activities and other life stuff
- Group meetings and stand ups
- Meeting topics: How was your break, where ya at with the above items.
- Action steps for each group member: Create Calendar, Polish portfolio
- Additional agenda items: