Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide for Students

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Description

For courses in Career Planning, Career Development, Employment/Job Search; Intro courses where students will begin to compile projects and work samples to show skills; and Senior Seminar/Capstone Courses where advanced students are preparing to enter the workplace.

Designed to assist students in pulling together their many skills and competencies, this innovative, easy-to-read guidebook provides detailed instructions for planning, assembling, and using a personal Career Portfolio for a job search or promotion. It shows them how to tie together and "package" their work experiences, class projects, professional development, and personal experiences to help them "sell themselves" in the job market.

Features

Reorganized and expanded—Provides full-chapter coverage of key topics, and organizes chapters based on the processes of planning, details on sections of the portfolio, assembly, style guidelines and uses of the portfolio.
Additional information on the development and use of electronic portfolios—Gives information on when and how to effectively create an electronic portfolio.
Expanded information on career planning, goal setting and resume design—Includes exercises and tips for planning a portfolio and choosing the focus for a portfolio.
Helps people focus the contents and purpose of their portfolios.
People can see how other people have stylized and structured portfolios.
Quick reference guide - Provides people with 3-hour emergency instructions for assembling a portfolio on short notice.
New electronic templates—On an accompanying disk. Provides Microsoft Word templates with commonly used forms for goals and objectives, statements of originality, references, awards, projects in process, project overview cards, etc. Save time during assembly by using pre- designed templates.
Exceptionally comprehensive—Provides an overview to the process, and includes the details needed to actually assemble the book.
Detailed how to's—Provides step-by-step guidelines for designing, creating, and using the portfolio in an interview or job review.
Gives students decision rules for selecting materials and projects to create a personalized portfolio.
Style Guide—Provides tips for creating better-looking text and photographs, as well as other ideas for the production side of the portfolio. Provides practical ideas to make the portfolio look better.
A list of supplies and materials.