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 process for cre-
ating a portfolio that features your best P.E.A.K.S. for the situations in
which you intend to use your portfolio. The following is a summary of
how the process works.
The Four-Step P.E.A.K.S. Portfolio Creation Process- Collect all the documents you can get your hands on that demon-
strate one or more categories of your career P.E.A.K.S. and that may
be appropriate for inclusion in a future, targeted portfolio. This all-
inclusive collection of documents is your Master Portfolio. - File these Master Portfolio documents any way you want, but keep
track of what you have using Career P.E.A.K.S. Master Summary
Sheets. All of your documents are listed on these summary sheets,
along with ratings of the relative strength of the P.E.A.K.S. that are
demonstrated in each document. - Analyze a desired job or promotion in terms of the P.E.A.K.S. that
candidates should have for this job or promotion. You can use infor-
mational interviews and a Job P.E.A.K.S. Worksheet (see the appen-
dix) to assist you with this process. - Finally, using your list of the P.E.A.K.S. that employers will find
desirable as your guide, select the documents from your Master
Portfolio that would be most impressive in your upcoming interview.
Since all of the documents in your Master Portfolio are listed and
rated on your Career P.E.A.K.S. Master Summary Sheets, finding
the right documents to include in your targeted portfolio can be done
very quickly.
Still hesitating? If you need a little more inspiration to get started,
please take a look at some of the examples we have provided
of P.E.A.K.S. portfolios in Part 2. Once you get the hang of it, creating
a P.E.A.K.S. portfolio that gets results is very easy to do. So let’s get
started.14 Part I: Building, Using, and Maintaining Your Career Portfolio