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Crafting a Professional Career Portfolio for Success

Learn to create a visual representation of your skills, achievements, and credentials to stand out in job applications. Start assembling your portfolio now to showcase your education, work experience, projects, and references effectively. Check grammar and spelling, use page protectors, and keep it concise and neat for maximum impact.

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Crafting a Professional Career Portfolio for Success

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  1. Creating a Career Portfolio

  2. What is a Career Portfolio? A visual way to represent your credentials, skills and achievements • Port – means portable or transportable • Folio – means packaging your credentials, skills and achievement using a variety of formats (3-ring binders, other covers, electronic, etc.)

  3. Why Create and Use a Portfolio? • Allows you to highlight your skills. Provides the “Big Picture” • Supporting evidence that you are the best candidate for a college or a job! • Provides a sense of direction Success

  4. When Do You Start Assembling your portfolio? NOW!!!

  5. What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Your Cover Should include — • Your name and contact information • Your mission statement – a short comment that gives your goals and abilities and sells you to the reader • Some artwork or picture of yourself – optional

  6. What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Education Information • Diplomas • Certificates • Relevant course work or training • Ability to use technology • Copy of home page, if you have a website • Academic awards • Special skills and abilities • Special projects you were involved with

  7. What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Work Experience • Jobs you have held and jobs you currently have • Job descriptions if necessary • Internships or job shadowing experiences • Records of your performance • Special project which you were involved with • Evidence of personal leadership – e.g. community service

  8. What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Examples of your work —could include multiple pages • Photos • Designs • Sample sales page • Sales brochures you created • Links to or pages from websites • Grants received • Projects you have worked on • Awards you have received

  9. What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Reference Information • Actual letters from previous employers, teachers, counselors, etc. • Listing of contact information if actual letters are not available

  10. What Should Be Included in your portfolio? • Possible items to include • A table of contents • Grant writing samples • Military service documents • Public mention in the media • A copy of your resume

  11. Some Tips • CHECK GRAMMAR AND SPELLING!!! • Appearance is important – neatness counts! • Use page protectors for pages within portfolio • No more than 10 pages • On your resume or cover letter, write “Portfolio Available” • Consider type of binder carefully – 3-ring, plastic, soft plastic binders, etc.

  12. Resources • Preparing a Portfolio http://www.career.fsu.edu/Images/PDFS/Guides/PortfolioPreparation.pdf • How to Create a Career Portfolio http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Career-Portfolio • A Guide to Your Career Portfolio http://www.potsdam.edu/offices/career/prepare/upload/Portfolio-Guide.pdf

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