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Personal Career Portfolios

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 :

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Personal Career Portfolios

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  1. Personal Career Portfolios Career Work Exploration 20/30

  2. 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.

  3. Your portfolio is limited only by your imagination!

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Job Opportunities Job interview Evidence of skills Self-Evaluation Tool Assisting in skill and goal development Career Development Transactions Further Education and Training Why have a career portfolio?

  7. How to use a portfolio • Video

  8. 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. Reflect Collect Select

  9. 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? Reflectionis 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. Reflective Questions: TIME and EFFORT – take pride in your work!

  10. 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 What should you collect?

  11. 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

  12. 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 ….

  13. Other • Blueprint • Employability Skills

  14. samples

  15. How to create your sheets? • Microsoft Publisher • Clip art/borders/colours • Word • Pictures • Fonts/White Space/Spacing • Wordle

  16. Important Dates: • What you need: • Binders/Sheet Protectors or website • List of items • March ________ • First Deadline • Marked • June _______ • Final Deadline • Improved Mark

  17. HANDOUT • Key things to remember. • Rubric • Table of Contents – Section (handout)

  18. A masterpiece is not created in one day!

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