personal career portfolios
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Personal Career Portfolios. Career Work Exploration 20/30. What is a Career Portfolio?. A career portfolio is a collection of purposefully selected items that you will gather throughout your life to illustrate your skills, values, abilities and interests. Like a wallet : - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Personal Career Portfolios
Career Work Exploration 20/30
What is a Career Portfolio?
A career portfolio is a collection of purposefully selected items that you will gather throughout your life to illustrate your skills, values, abilities and interests.
Like a wallet: Prized possessions and what is important to you Documentation that describes you and your
capabilities Living document and is an on-going project.
Your portfolio is limited only by
your imagination!
Many types of portfolios:
Personal Career Portfolios Demonstrate career development, activities,
abilities, and employability of an individual Art or Design Portfolios
Broad sampling of the best of an artist’s work. Professional Development Portfolios
List personal growth plans Employability Skills Portfolios
Acquisition of generic employability skills
Benefits of a Career Portfolio For the student
Contributes to the student’s sense of accomplishment Provides materials to use in preparation for more
education and/or job interview Connects home, school and community activities Promotes personal accountability Develops awareness of student’s own knowledge, skills,
and values through self-assessment Assess knowledge, skills and goals, Competitive in today’s labour market Identify areas that require further study
Why have a career portfolio? Job Opportunities
Job interview Evidence of skills
Self-Evaluation Tool Assisting in skill and goal
development
Career Development Transactions
Further Education and Training
How to use a portfolio
Video
Steps involved in developing a PCP Collect
Collect items that tell a story about something important you have done or items that are a permanent record of an accomplishment.
Select Select those that will exhibit your capabilities for a specific
reason. You may add or remove items depending on how you plan to use your portfolio and when.
Reflect Allows you to ask yourself questions about the learning
connected to the portfolio item.
Collect Select Reflect
Reflective Questions: What have I learned? What skills did I develop? What have I noticed? What would I do differently? What strengths and
weaknesses are shown in this item?
How does what I am doing affect my future choices?
Reflection is a lifelong process. It helps you look at what you have done, analyze your results, measure your successes and adjust your conduct in the future. You did this naturally when you were a small child discovering how the world worked.
TIME and EFFORT – take pride in your work!
What should you collect? Transcript Attendance record Resume Cover Letter Letter of references Certificates from school An essay, report or article TOKW Pictures – teams, etc. Poetry, quote, book Values Skills Short Term Goals
Long Term Goals Abilities Strengths Faith Development Brief description of courses
taken Personal interest inventories Membership Extracurricular activities First Aid, Babysitting, WHMIS Trophies, badges, crests Training Hobbies
Thank you cards/Letters
Self-Assessment results
Travel experiences Languages Involvement in sports Involvement in
clubs/associations
PowerPoint Presentations
Training Courses Newspaper articles Log Book
How to organize your sections
Intro (cover page, table of contents) Employment Section (resume, cover letter, letter of reference,
job application, interview) Personal Information (self assessment) Academic Skills (transcript, report card, work) Skills
Teamwork Skills Personal Skills
Awards and Accomplishments Career Volunteer Others ….
Other
Blueprint Employability Skills
SAMPLES
How to create your sheets?
Microsoft Publisher Clip art/borders/colours Word Pictures Fonts/White Space/Spacing Wordle
Important Dates:
What you need: Binders/Sheet Protectors
or website List of items
March ________ First Deadline Marked
June _______ Final Deadline Improved Mark
HANDOUT
Key things to remember.
Rubric Table of Contents –
Section (handout)
A masterpiece is not created in one day!