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Creating a Career Portfolio. What is a Career Portfolio?. A visual way to represent your credentials, skills and achievements Port – means portable or transportable
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What is a Career Portfolio? A visual way to represent your credentials, skills and achievements • Port – means portable or transportable • Folio – means packaging your credentials, skills and achievement using a variety of formats (3-ring binders, other covers, electronic, etc.)
Why Create and Use a Portfolio? • Allows you to highlight your skills. Provides the “Big Picture” • Supporting evidence that you are the best candidate for a college or a job! • Provides a sense of direction Success
What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Your Cover Should include — • Your name and contact information • Your mission statement – a short comment that gives your goals and abilities and sells you to the reader • Some artwork or picture of yourself – optional
What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Education Information • Diplomas • Certificates • Relevant course work or training • Ability to use technology • Copy of home page, if you have a website • Academic awards • Special skills and abilities • Special projects you were involved with
What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Work Experience • Jobs you have held and jobs you currently have • Job descriptions if necessary • Internships or job shadowing experiences • Records of your performance • Special project which you were involved with • Evidence of personal leadership – e.g. community service
What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Examples of your work —could include multiple pages • Photos • Designs • Sample sales page • Sales brochures you created • Links to or pages from websites • Grants received • Projects you have worked on • Awards you have received
What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Reference Information • Actual letters from previous employers, teachers, counselors, etc. • Listing of contact information if actual letters are not available
What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Possible items to include • A table of contents • Grant writing samples • Military service documents • Public mention in the media • A copy of your resume
Some Tips • CHECK GRAMMAR AND SPELLING!!! • Appearance is important – neatness counts! • Use page protectors for pages within portfolio • No more than 10 pages • On your resume or cover letter, write “Portfolio Available” • Consider type of binder carefully – 3-ring, plastic, soft plastic binders, etc.
Resources • Preparing a Portfolio http://www.career.fsu.edu/Images/PDFS/Guides/PortfolioPreparation.pdf • How to Create a Career Portfolio http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Career-Portfolio • A Guide to Your Career Portfolio http://www.potsdam.edu/offices/career/prepare/upload/Portfolio-Guide.pdf