Creating Your Career Portfolio: At a Glance Guide for Students (2nd Edition)

Designed to assist readers 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. An accompanying disk contains Microsoft Word templates with commonly used forms for goals and objectives, statements of originality, references, awards, projects in process, project overview cards, etc. The Portfolio Process. Planning Your Portfolio. The Resume: An Overview of Your Portfolio. Proving Your Skills. Your Commitment to Personal Growth. The Assembly. The Electronic Portfolio. Using It. A Matter of Style. Resource Guide. Professionals who are interested in advancing their career through promotion, are job shifting, or are returning to the job market. Also for Career Counselors and Human Resource Managers.