The Career Portfolio Workbook

skills, experience, accomplishments, and personal characteristics that add value,the majority of the employers surveyed ranked p ...

important way is similar to the kind of work you would be called upon to do in the job for which you are interviewing. An exampl ...

your ability to put this knowledge to work so that you can actually do something productive, rather than just talk about it. Evi ...

The candidate would then present two letters of commendation from his or her portfolio. (For an example of a letter of commendat ...

HOW DO YOU CREATE A PORTFOLIO THAT FEATURES THE RIGHT CAREER P.E.A.K.S? In Chapters 2 and 3, we will walk you through an easy pr ...

2 Assembling Your Master Portfolio OVERVIEW Assembling your Master Portfolio is the stage where you get your hands on as many di ...

ments about yourself seems like an awful lot of work, here’s something you should know. The process may start slowly, but it bui ...

Unfortunately, you can’t really know in advance all of the possible sit- uations where you might wish to use your portfolio. And ...

Task accomplishments.Evidence of specific things you have accom- plished in response to a problem or perceived need. These item ...

Chapter 2: Assembling Your Master Portfolio 19 Targeted Task Skills (cont.) Evidence of competence in more than one language ...

Again, the above list is not meant to be all-inclusive. We provide it only to get you thinking about things you might have that ...

The chances are your boss will want to learn more about putting together a portfolio for his or her own use! You can (and should ...

comes time to actually select items from your Master Portfolio to take to an interview you will be able to quickly put your hand ...

P.E.A.K.S. is. The worksheets are for your own personal reference,not for sharing with an interviewer. So be candid. If you deci ...

self. You have to be comfortable with your filing system or you won’t keep using it. Using tabs may help.You will likely find th ...

you like to be. When you are shuffling through your Master Portfolio documents at home and at your leisure, you are not in an in ...

can use this form to list all of your items in this collection, along with your ratings of the P.E.A.K.S. associated with each o ...

If your Master Portfolio does not have different files and headings, you can simply leave the “Master Portfolio Category”area bl ...

FINAL THOUGHTS In this chapter we have taken a close look at how you can assem- ble a master collection of portfolio-worthy docu ...

3 Targeting Your Portfolio OVERVIEW When the time comes to select items from your Master Portfolio to take to an interview, one ...