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No. 8 –Gathering and Sorting Work Samples I Want to Now?
Am I
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Estimated Time: Ongoing, 4 hours
Creating
8A–Setting up Your Tabs and Organizing Samples – 2 hours What's
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8B–Creating Overview Cards for your Work Samples – 2 hours Need

Overview/Goals:

By this point you should have a collection of work samples – materials you’ve created, letters of
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recommendation, pictures, awards, documents, reports, projects, etc. You should also have a good
idea of what an employer in your field is looking for and what skills you have that can help you
stand out during an interview.

The goal of this exercise is to decide how to organize your career portfolio by selecting tabs and
organizing your work samples. It is broken into two parts:
For Evaluation Only
• Exercise 8A: Setting Up Your Tabs and Organizing Samples – You will look at your samples

and decide which of your skills to feature. Then you will decide on all the tabs you are going

to use in your portfolio and begin to sort your work samples.
• Exercise 8B: Creating Work Sample Overview Cards – You will create a card for each item in
your portfolio, giving details about the sample.

8A: Setting up Your Tabs and Organizing Samples – 2 hours

Instructions:
This exercise consists of reviewing your skills, and organizing and sorting your work samples.
1. Review Exercise 4 – make sure you have listed how you will prove the skill in The Proof column.
Do the same for any skills you are working to develop in Exercise 7.
2. Decide what skills you want to include in your career portfolio. The samples in your portfolio
will be grouped together by the type of skill. You need to decide which areas of skills you want
to promote about yourself. These will become tabbed sections of your portfolio.

Here are a few examples of skill areas that could be tabs in a portfolio:
 Management  Marketing  Communication  Public Speaking
 Computers  Training  Customer Service  People Skills
 Writing  Organization  Research  Technical Skills

Examples of tabbed areas for more specialized skills might be:
 Drafting  Publishing  Public Relations  Finance
 CAD  Carpentry  Marketing  Networking
 Legislation  Hospitality  Sales  Biology

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