You’re a college student- take the opportunity to explore careers, identify the skills you need to thrive in your chosen career, document your skills, and take charge of your own learning.

The most significant factor in your career success comes down to how well you know yourself– What knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies do you have, and how do you use these for your well-being?

 You’re not just learning skills to get a job- you are creating a toolbox of knowledge and skills that can transfer into your work and personal life to give you a sense of purpose, help you engage in your community, and be well-rounded financially, physically, and socially.

In this 4th edition, the focus is on:

• categorizing your work samples and community service activities.

• writing meaningful goals to close the GAP between your current skills and the requirements of your target career.

• seeking out social documentation for your soft skills.

• connecting your LinkedIn™ profile to your career portfolio.

• demonstrating your personal well-being through your career portfolio.

• the need for both a hard copy and ePortfolio on your job quests.

• proving you are the right person for the job, internship, scholarship, or promotion.

Career Transitions- Transferable Skills
and Career Portfolio Workbook

by Anna Graf Williams

ISBN: 978-0-9969528-2-8
Publisher: Learnovation, LLC
Copyright: 2016
Format: Paper; 124 pp.

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Description

Geared to Students, Workforce Development, Reentry, and At-Risk Youth Populations

The Career Transitions-Transferable Skills & Career Portfolio Workbook contains skill awareness exercises designed to help people identify their current skills and the skills they need to succeed. It also contains checklists and guidelines for creating a résumé and assembling a personalized career portfolio.

With the first exercise, a client begins to create a master list of his or her skills. Each additional exercise explores different types of skills, places to gain skills, and ways to present these skills to an employer. We also explore the importance of connecting personal well-being to career success.

Contents

• Getting it Done Checklist

• 1A–Who Do I Want to Be?

• 1B–What Kind of Job Do I Want to Be Doing?

• 2–Taking a Look at the Job Market

• 3–Reality Check: The Job Application

• 4–Taking Inventory- Dialing Down on My Skills

  • 4A–Skills from Jobs

  • 4B–Skills from Education/Training

  • 4C–Skills from Other Sources

• 5–Looking at the Big Picture – A SWOT Analysis

• 6–Job Matching and My Career Path

• 7–Planning for the Skills I Need

• 8–Gathering and Sorting Work Samples

  • 8A–Setting Up My Tabs and Organizing Samples

  • 8B–Creating Overview Cards for Work Samples

• 9–Creating My Résumé

  • 9A–Résumé Planner

  • 9B–Using Keywords in My Résumé

• 10– My Professional Profile on LinkedIn™

• 11–Assembling My Career Portfolio

• 12–Check My Attitude

  • 12A–What’s My Attitude?

  • 12B–Shifting My Attitude

• 13– Transferring Well-Being to Career Success

Get the Workbook FREE when you purchase a pre-assembled career portfolio kit.