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internship, the scholarship, or why you deserve the raise and what
qualifies you for the promotion.

What is a Career Portfolio?

A career portfolio is an organized
presentation of your skills, abili- A career portfolio is a
ties, experiences, job history, and tool you use when you
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education. It is an in-depth career want to show someone
summary designed to showcase you are the right person
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the best you have to offer. for...
You can create two different for- the job.
mats of a career portfolio, a hard the scholarship.
copy career portfolio and an elec-
tronic version we call an ePortfolio. the internship.
Each has its benefits and uses, and the promotion.
we recommend you create both the raise.
types.
You will collect work samples (sometimes called artifacts) that show
all the things you can do: Your skills and abilities from all areas of
your life, including your job, your education, hobbies, activities,
interests, and volunteering. These samples can be documents
you’ve created on the job, letters of recommendation, samples of
projects and presentations you’ve done in school, videos you’ve cre-
ated for YouTube™, educational articles you’ve written for a maga-
zine, menu plans for athletic training, awards, certificates, pictures,
etc.

From this collection of samples, you will decide which of your skills
and abilities you want to promote about yourself, and you’ll organize
and assemble your career portfolio to highlight these skills. As you
develop your portfolio you actual build a personal profile of your
skills and qualifications.

2 What is a Career Portfolio?