Using Career Portfolios to Make Community Service Count
Anna Graf Williams, PhD Senior Partner, Learnovation®, LLC
Emily SellersAmeriCorps Director, Indiana Campus
Compact
Objectives
• Describe the basic components of a career portfolio.
• Identify the benefits of community service as they affect transferable skills in their fields of work.
• Identify how service organizations can better document volunteerism, through the use of photos, letters, awards, certificates, and documentation.
The Community Service Thing…
• Besides the “feel good”• Industry is looking for will you…
– Grow leadership around you– Save us money– Make us money– Delivery quality customer/guest service– Can you service the mission?
• Service Highlights– Skills– Trainings– Certifications
Prove it!!!
What is included in a Career Portfolio?
• Management Philosophy
• Professional Bio• Professional Goals• Résumé• Work Samples by key
areas• Works in Progress
• Community Service (Transferable Skills)
• Professional Memberships• Degrees, Certifications &
Awards– Plan of Study
• Reference Info
Requesting Documentation for a Work Sample
• Competencies– Skills, abilities, knowledge—tools and
technologies• Soft Skills• Leadership• Personal Experience--Individual, group,
cooperative work• Tasks• Length of time, dates—who worked
with…
O*NET
3rd Party Documentation Topic
• Skills — Resource Management Skills• Developed capacities used to allocate resources efficiently• Management of Financial Resources — Determining how
money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Management of Material Resources — Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Skills — Systems Skills• Developed capacities used to understand, monitor, and
improve socio-technical systems• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the
relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Soft Skill Proof of:Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.Social Perceptiveness— Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Social Networking your Community Service
Pro• Using an app with a
clock to document times worked
• Increasing the impact of your work
• “Retweets” on your community service and programs—stats to document
Con• HIPA volunteer
requirements in jeopardy• Your service may be private
such as accounting, working with private information
Cloud in Action
Your Career Tools
Laptop Web TV
USB Drive
Gaming SystemsSmart Phone
IPAD
External Hard Drive
•Monitor•Keyboard•Mouse•Power Bluetooth
Printer
There’s an app for that…• Choosing Apps…
– How secure is the data?– Is it your data? Is it your data only?– How reliable and trust worthy is the company? Will
they be here a year from now? Longer…– What is the source output of your data? Word file,
excel, pdf, jpeg, comma delimited or a proprietary format?
• Cost Value Analysis…– If your laptop was run over by an 18 wheeler today
can you replace the data?– What is your time worth?
• Time of access from anywhere…them backing up…you backing up
Professional Plan
Key Skill Area
Cost control
Production
Software
SPV Staff
Key Skill
Lab Analysis
Field Development
Professional Communicat
ion
Prof Software
Training/Leadership
Patient Plans
Customer Information
Classes designed
Ulta Media
TechnologyResearch
State of the Art
Web
New knowledge to the field
Apps
Community Service/Educator
Groups
Projects
Talents
TransferableSkills
Professionally
Skills, Knowledge,
Abilities…tools & technologies
Using the Career Portfolio to Pull it all Together!
• Career Portfolios are used to:– Get a job• Negotiate soft benefits• Increase starting pay
– Get a promotion
– Earn academic life credit
–The professional competency snapshot of you!
