Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-A-Glance Guide for Students

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. Provides full-chapter coverage of key topics, and organizes chapters based on the processes of planning, details on sections of the portfolio, assembly, style guidelines and uses of the portfolio. Information on career planning, goal setting and resume design includes exercises and tips for planning a portfolio and choosing the focus for a portfolio. Also contains detailed explanation of transferable, soft and technical skills for dealing with the job search in the current economy. Provides templates for creating an electronic portolio as well as sample job search correspondence. For use by companies as a professional development tool, or for anyone seeking employment or advancement of their career.