Recently in maker, my class has been going a lot more into the career life education or CLE side of things. CLE has a lot to do with you’re future, who you are, and how you live your life. It’s a great course if you’re trying to figure out what you want to do as a career or just learn about yourself. For the last week or two, my class and I have been using the my blueprint website to learn about ourselves and then eventually present this information in a keynote. 

To start off this project I made an account and the logged in to my blueprint. Essentially, my blueprint is a school helper. It can help look for jobs, colleges, and scholarships. The best thing about my blueprint though is that it has all kinds of tests to see if you’re compatible with whatever kind of job you’re looking for. Personality tests, motivation tests, learning type tests etc. The first thing that we did was take these tests and a lot of the results were surprising at first but if you thought about it they made sense. I definitely learned about myself and my personality from these tests because it’s not often you sit down and actually critically asses yourself. 

With this new found information I created a keynote with questions based around the answers to the tests that we took. Questions like “how will this info help you throughout your career”. Questions like these got you thinking and really made you apply this information. I also made a chart that showed multiple options for my future. To make it I used pages graphs and showed different options like going straight into the workforce, doing an apprenticeship or going to college or university.

Once I finished making my keynotes and laying them out nicely, I presented to the class. I learned a lot of technical skills in this project and I figured out how to effectively use a lot of keynotes new features like enhanced magic move and custom object paths. 

This project was really important. Even though it was small it fit a lot of information and good content in. I honestly think I did learn about myself in ways that I never thought I would. Seeing yourself from a different angle is interesting and even if it’s not completely life changing, it never hurts to know yourself really well. To see your strengths and weaknesses is a really useful skill and the my blueprint website not only helps you see that but it also lets you build up your weaknesses and turn your strengths into superpowers. Most of or even all of the worlds best work comes from people who love what they do and have a passion for what they do. When you use my blueprint to it’s fullest extent you can narrow down your interests and find jobs that you are interested in and suit you on a single platform. It would be nice if my blueprint was an app and didn’t have to refresh every time you opened it again but it’s function over fashion in this case and the power of my blueprints tools outweigh its clunkiness and how it’s not easy to navigate.