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Career Portfolio is an in-depth career
Take Action! A summary you create to showcase your
unique skills and rare talents. It’s a tool Study Skills
you use to market yourself to employers and Series
show them that you are the right person for
Exercise: Identifying Work Samples and Keywords the job, internship, or career position. You No. 10
Take a look at all your jobs, education, activities, interests, community service, and military experience and résumé lists your qualifications. Your career
list work samples you could use to prove your skills. Then assign a keyword that describes that sample.
portfolio contains samples of your work that
Keyword That prove you have the skills to do the job. Your
Work Samples I Can Use to Prove My Skills Describes this Sample career portfolio is a tool for life - as your skills
Tasks I Perform/ Equpiment I Operate/ Special Skills grow, your career portfolio grows with you.
Get Organized
The Career
The Career Portfolio Process Portfolio is a tool
Identify your Skills and Abilities – Take a look at you use to show
your education, job history, and other experiences someone you are
and make a list of what you can do. the right person Starter The Career Portfolio
Communication, Coordination, Time Management, Leadership, Teamwork Create your Career Goals – Look at the career you for:
Skills want to have, and figure out what additional the job
skills you need to get there, whether it is more
training, more job experience, or time on the the internship
job. Create career goals and make a plan for the scholarship
reaching those goals.
Find Work Samples – Work samples are the key to admittance
to a specific
your career portfolio, the proof that you can do
what you say you can. You may need to request a program
letter of recommendation, develop a checklist of the promotion
skills, find documents that show the work you do
All material is adapted from Creating Your on the job, or take pictures of yourself in action. the raise.
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All Rights Reserved. 4th ed. ©2015 Learnovation, LLC Organize and assemble your career portfolio to
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Used with Permission. highlight your key skills. You can create a hard
copy portfolio to show in an interview and an
electronic version which people can view online.