Creating Your Career Portfolio: At a Glance Guide for Students - Softcover

Williams Ph.D., Anna Graf; Hall, Karen J.

9780130908513: Creating Your Career Portfolio: At a Glance Guide for Students

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130908517 ISBN 13: 9780130908513

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

For courses in Career Planning, Career Development, Employment/Job Search; Intro courses where students will begin to compile projects and work samples to show skills; and Senior Seminar/Capstone Courses where advanced students are preparing to enter the workplace.

Designed to assist students in pulling together their many skills and competencies, this innovative, easy-to-read guidebook provides detailed instructions for planning, assembling, and using a personal Career Portfolio for a job search or promotion. It shows them how to tie together and "package" their work experiences, class projects, professional development, and personal experiences to help them "sell themselves" in the job market.

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From the Back Cover:

The employment market of the 21st century is changing. Employers are looking for more...more skills...more credibility and more professionalism. How do you distinguish yourself from all the competition and prove that you are the right person for the job? A Career Portfolio can give you the edge.

Get the Job!

You've secured an interview―your r�sum� got you in the door. Now you have less than an hour to prove to the organization why they need to hire you...

A Career Portfolio is a binder containing samples of your work, community service involvement, memberships, goals, achievements, and more. You organize and assemble it to show off your greatest strengths to a potential employer. It's proof, it's an edge, and it can help you get the job!

Get that Internship or Co-op!
Use the Career Portfolioto:

highlight your experiences
focus on course work and project samples
set up your track record
create goals and learning agreements

Track your Achievements!

Whether you're on the hunt for that perfect job, or just starting out in school, you can use the portfolio to track what you've done, and determine what skills you still need and how to get them. Keeping track of projects and work samples while you're still in school will make it easier to assemble your portfolio when you're ready to enter the job market.

Second Edition―Newly Revised

Features

Detailed instructions on assembling your own personalized Career Portfolio
Interviewing Guidelines
Emergency Assembly Instructions
Details on Creating an Electronic Portfolio
Style Guide―Making your Portfolio sizzle
Disk of Quick Templates―a starting point for creating personal pieces of your portfolio

Use your r�sum� to get an interview―use your portfolio to establish a career.

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