portfolios (fall 2008)
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Your Success is Our Business. 701 East 5 th Street (corner of 5 th & Jarvis) Greenville, NC 27858 252-328-6050 www.ecu.edu/career Developing a Portfolio for Your Job Search Your Success Is Our BusinessTRANSCRIPT
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Your Success is Our Business.
701 East 5th Street
(corner of 5th & Jarvis)
Greenville, NC 27858
252-328-6050
www.ecu.edu/career
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Your Success Is Our Business
Developing a Portfolio for
Your Job Search
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What is a Portfolio?
Documents the scope and quality of your experience and training
Marketing tool that provides evidence of your accomplishments, skills and abilities
A Portfolio serves as an organized collection of material that presents your personal and professional skills in a concrete way.
Format Options: Hard Copy Disk CD-ROM Web
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An Effective Portfolio Can:
Demonstrate your work, provide samples, back up claim to be a producer
Demonstrate learning, collect assessment and reflection information
Provide a competitive edge
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Purpose of a Portfolio Identifies skill or experience gaps Review achievements and enhance career self-efficacy Provides a framework for career development
Helps you focus on your accomplishments
Can enhance self-knowledge and reflection
Tracks and documents career progress and readiness
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For Job Search Purposes
Pre-interview:
Networking
Application materials
Interview:
Present and highlight qualifications and experience
Post-interview:
Send on a CD as a follow-up
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Developing Your Portfolio
Start a “Me” file and collect copies of your work, including:
Resumes
Job Descriptions
Appraisals
Transcripts
Course Descriptions
Projects
Honors
Certificates
Reference Letters
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Demonstrate that you have the required qualifications.
Identify gaps in education and skills; establish an action plan of response.
Evaluate Items in Accordance With Your Career and Educational Goals
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Enhances your credibility
Projects your capabilities
Enables feedback
Identifies you as an Individual
Make Sure Your Assembled Portfolio Achieves the Following:
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Check for interest during presentation and seek opportunities to use your portfolio
Develop Your Presentation and Practice How You Plan to Deliver It
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Hard Copy Components
Table of contents
Career summary and goals
Resumes
Official transcripts
Awards and honors
Samples of work selected to demonstrate required qualifications
Letters of recommendation & references
Conferences and workshops
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Additional Possible Portfolio Items
Writing samples
Certificate/Licenses
Publications
Audio or Video clips
Letters from clients, customers, faculty
News clippings
Photographs
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Assembly of Your Hard Copy Portfolio
Pick a binder style based on the largest item to be included
If you use a black 3 ring binder, pick one with a insert-able cover and spine
Make a cover and spine label
Get divider tabs for organization
Use clear plastic sleeves for documents
Don’t permanently mount originals
Use acid free/lignin free papers
Provide color copies of your originals
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Electronic Format Components
Profile
Resume
Capabilities/Skills
Transcripts
Project Samples
References
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Electronic Portfolios
Use Optimal Resume to create your own Online Portfolio!
Upload professional documents into an attractive portfolio that can be viewed as part of the professional website you create with the Website Builder
File Cabinet vs. Slide Show
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Advantages to Electronic Portfolios
Clusters related areas and ideas.
Searchable/scan-able.
Facilitates Multi-media presentations.
Easy access from any computer.
Can provide more information in multiple languages.
Demonstrates computer literacy.
Easily accessible by multiple viewers.
Easily stored.
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Advantages to Hard Copy
Better for interviews.
Does not require computer skills to produce.
More personalized.
More conducive for face-to-face presentation.
Not everyone can access computers.
Changes are usually easier
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Our team of career coaches are here to help you achieve success in all aspects
of your career!
Call Us! The Career Center
252-328-6050 or
1-800-391-0506 www.ecu.edu/career Corner of 5th & Jarvis
Feel free to call us for more information or to set up an appointment with a Career Coach!