Creating Your Career Portfolio At a Glance Guide for Students

If you're looking to find the right job, stand out among the Competition, prove yourself, and feel confident in the Interview process, you are ready to create your career portfolio. Succeed in a tough job market--Use your career portfolio to compete for the job, show your future employer what you are worth and how you can save them training dollars. Show that employer you are worth the investment! Stand Out--With the help of this book you are going to create a Career Portfolio, a track record of your education and work experiences that you can take with you to a job interview. The portfolio is a zippered 3-ring binder containing information about your beliefs, experiences, and education. It will contain samples of your work, either in a classroom setting or on the job. The portfolio may also include a list of your skills and abilities. With a portfolio in hand, you can walk into an interview and be able to show the interviewer samples of your work, pictures of projects or community involvement, certificates you've earned, and memberships you have held. Your portfolio will be customized to you, so it will set you apart from everyone else. Interview with Confidence--A portfolio also lets you walk into an interview with more confidence, because while putting it together you'll be examining your goals, writing down your beliefs about work and your career, documenting your strengths, and identifying your weaknesses. By the time you have put together your first career portfolio you should be able to handle those hard interview questions like "Tell me about yourself," "What are your goals for the future?," or "What do you bring to the table for us?" Start Out Ahead--Portfolios can do more than boost your confidence in an interview. They can also help you get ahead in the marketplace. A well-crafted portfolio shows employers you have the skills and abilities they are looking for. We have seen people with portfolios obtain higher starting salaries because they could prove their skills to an employer. Track Your Career--Once you have the job, your portfolio doesn't go into a closet until you're looking for another job. Your portfolio changes as you begin to collect and document your work on the job. Then your portfolio serves as proof of your abilities on the job and can be used to track job performance aced help position you for advancement. Creating Your Career Portfolio--At-a-Glance Guide for Students, and Edition,gives you guidelines for creating your career portfolio. In this book you'll find: A list of supplies you need to begin General guidelines for organizing your portfolio Detailed discussions of information to be included in different sections Pointers on using the portfolio in an interview or job review A style guide--containing tips for creating better looking test, photographs, and videos, as well as other ideas for making the production side of the portfolio process run smoothly. Organization This book is divided into six sections: Overview Chapter 1: The Portfolio Process--An overview of the whole process of portfolio development. Planning and Collecting Materials Chapter 2: Planning Your Portfolio--Tools to help you develop your work philosophy and career goals. Chapter 3: The Resume: An Overview of Your Portfolio--A look at different types of resumes, both paper and electronic. Chapter 4: Proving Your Skills--How to collect, select, and assemble your work samples, certifications, and community service items. Putting the Portfolio Together Chapter 5: The Assembly--Putting it all together; producing the portfoWilliams, Anna Graf is the author of 'Creating Your Career Portfolio At a Glance Guide for Students', published 2004 under ISBN 9780131505049 and ISBN 0131505041.