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Includes:

• Standard Portfolio Kit
• Creating Your Career Career Portfolio Practical Exercises Workbook
• Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-A-Glance Guide for Students

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Learn how to create your own portfolio with the professional or student version of Creating your Career Portfolio: At a Glance Guide.

 

Learn how to make the most of all your transferable skills in the Career Smarts audio tape.

Here are some great tips for working through the career portfolio process:

• Don't be too humble! — Many people are too humble to explain their accomplishments. The career portfolio helps individuals talk about themselves in a job seeking or career advancement situation.
• COLLECT now — SORT later.
• Use your PDA or calendar to generate a list of your accomplishments from your appointments or meetings.

Graphics and Pictures

• Use a photograph when a large 3D project does not fit into your career portfolio.
• Scan all documents you will be printing at 300 dpi resolution or higher.
• You should include yourself in all action shots — this gives great talking points in your career portfolios for interviews and performance review meetings.
• Clean before copying! — Clean copying machines, scanning beds and any electronic equipment with flat glass screens using glass cleaner prior to any copying to assure quality when copying or scanning.
• Use color! — color sources are always better than black and white.

Assembling the Portfolio

NEVER – put your original in your career portfolio — always use a quality copy.

About Work Samples

• Use newspaper clippings and thank you notes only if it demonstrates specific skills clearly and specifically. Note the paragraph and skill location on the exhibit card for quick location.
• Transferable Skills — Even when you have been employed in a job outside your chosen career, take a look at how aspects of it can help you in your chosen field. You should always consider how a job or experience might be transferable to a new position or career change.

Identifying Skills and Needs

• Look at job postings to identify skills to target lateral or upward career moves within the company or competition.
• Keep current on trends in professional certifications
  • How many clock hours required
  • How many class hours required
  • Certification requirements
• Many employers are looking for leadership skills—what entrepreneur skills do you have and how will you document them? These will be helpful to advance your leadership movement up in the organization.