The Career Portfolio Workbook

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 of these items.

If your summary sheets are up to date, whenever you are putting

together a Can-Do Portfolio for a particular job interview, you can run

your eye down these summary sheets to see what you’ve got in your

Master Portfolio that might be useful for this interview.

And perhaps even more important, these “snapshots”of the con-

tents of your Master Portfolio will enable you to see patterns and

themes with respect to the P.E.A.K.S. that have characterized your life.

This sort of self-knowledge can be very useful, not only for a job inter-

view but also for making important career decisions.

How to Use Career P.E.A.K.S. Master Summary Sheets

Recording items on this summary sheet is quite simple. Let us say, for

example, that you want to list all the items in a Master Portfolio file

you call “Task Accomplishments.”The first thing you would do would be

to write “Task Accomplishments”in the upper left-hand corner of the

form. Refer to the example below to see how this would be done.

Example: Career P.E.A.K.S Master Summary Sheet for Portfolio Categories

On a scale of 1 to 5, rate each item for its P.E.A.K.S. (5 being most important)

26 Part I: Building, Using, and Maintaining Your Career Portfolio

Master Portfolio

Category: PEAKS

Task Personal Experience Accomplish- Knowledge Skills

Accomplishments Characteristics ments

That Add Value Totals

Printout figures: 3 3 5 2 4 17

doubled advertising

for student newspaper

Boss’s letter: praising 2 4 5 4 4 19

marketing plan

Annual performance 4 4 5 3 4 20

evaluation:

15% boost in

productivity

Etc.