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Make it Real.
Your career portfolio should reflect who you are right now. Don’t

pad it with filler projects and samples if you don’t have them.
Take a look at what you’re missing, and make plans to fill the
gaps.

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The Five Steps to Developing a Career Portfolio

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There are five steps to developing your career portfolio:
1. Knowing your skills and planning your career– Identifying your
current skills, your target career and jobs, and the gap between
the two. Plan for gaining the skills and knowledge you need to
move forward by setting goals.
2. Collecting and organizing your work
samples– Work samples are the guts of
your career portfolio. The actual proof
you use to show you have the skills to do
the job. Your samples are what set you
apart from other people; they show what
you have to offer. Work samples are the
proof of all the things you can do, from
all parts of your life. We'll look at the
types of samples you can use, where to
find them, and how to capture and keep track of all these
samples. We’ll look at how to categorize and organize your work
samples to show the best of what you do.

3. Creating Your Résumé– We often say that your résumé gets you
the interview, your career portfolio gets you the job. If your career
portfolio is your marketing kit, your résumé is the one-page
summary to who you are and what you have to offer. You'll learn

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