The Career Portfolio Workbook

side of the law because you have distributed an organization’s propri- etary format for doing written performance evaluations. D ...

given meeting, only you will know that you have changed its contents from one meeting to the next. Presentation Issues When you ...

You can’t explain the items in a Web-based portfolio the way you could in person.In general, portfolio items are best explained ...

TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS^1 While most people can create an electronic portfolio of some kind, there are many technical requireme ...

Pros and Cons of Potential Digital Formats for a Portfolio Electronic portfolios can be created in many different ways. Pros and ...

You must be certain that all of your recipients are equipped with Word. Since Word costs nearly $200, it is unlikely that someo ...

you can use when publishing a portable PDF to determine the level of compression and consequent level of detail in your PDF file ...

Value can be added to your portfolio with the Internet in many dif- ferent ways, including interactivity, links, and access to ...

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10 Portfolios on the Fly: Creating a Portfolio in a Few Hours OVERVIEW This is the short course. In this chapter we show how you ...

just yet. We can help you, too. We’ll give you the short course, so you don’t have to wait for this book to come out as an “exec ...

potentially useful portfolio documents.”For simplicity, we call it your Master Portfolio. Your Master Portfolio is notmeant to b ...

Step 1: Specify the Type of Career Opportunity You Are Pursuing In order to create a portfolio that is targeted for a specific p ...

Step 3: Obtain an Understanding of the Importance of Your “P.E.A.K.S.” As you reviewed the sample Can-Do Portfolios in Part 2, y ...

asking you to get much more specificabout the particular career op- portunity you are pursuing. The more accurately you are able ...

people who will be interviewing you and to whom you will be showing items from your portfolio. If you are in a huge rush, you ma ...

lot about valued P.E.A.K.S. by talking to successful students, profes- sors, and recent graduates. Given your time constraints, ...

opsis of how portfolio items should be used in an interview, see “How Do You Actually Use a Career Portfolio—and When?”in Chapte ...

should notbe the central feature of the interview. You will want the em- phasis to be on you, not on your portfolio. You do not ...

Identify the “holes”in your targeted portfolio.Are there strategic objectives that your current collection of documents will not ...