CCS Career Portfolio Tutorial Project

Introduction to Career Portfolio Tutorial (intro.html) Read this first!

Pre-Test (pretst.html) Find out what you do and don't know about portfolios, so you can skip over the parts you're already familiar with.

Portfolio Collection and Special Purpose Portfolios (col-spp.html) Perhaps THE most important concept on this entire site. See the graphics, and read about the kinds of special purpose portfolios that people have found useful. Also, differences between learning portfolios and career portfolios.

Start a Portfolio Collection (strtpfolcoll.html) Lists of items you may want to have in your portfolio collection. When to collect materials for the collection and ideas for ways to represent your skills and abilities.

Career Portfolios

Definition (whaty.html) What is a career portfolio and why would you want one. Comments from people who have used portfolios successfully.

Mechanics of career portfolios

What kind of career portfolio do you want? - paper vs electronic (kindof.html) What kind of a career portfolio do you want to develop? This page discusses the pros and cons of using a paper-based career portfolio versus having an online portfolio. Each has limitations and potential. Which is best for you?

Focus your career portfolio (focus.html) Let the purpose of your career portfolio determine how you focus your career portfolio.

Organize your career portfolio (organize.html) Organize your career portfolio around your skills, so your readers can learn quickly what skills you have and so you (and they) can find the information quickly.

Use graphics to represent your skills and abilities (representself.html) How can you represent your skills, abilities and strengths? in an interview? or online?

How to use a career portfolio in a job interview (how2use.html) How to introduce the portfolio in a job interview and what to do if you find yourself being interviewed by 8 people.

Resources for career portfolios (resources.html)

Tools to help you make career portfolios (tools.html)

Checklist for completed career portfolios (chklst.html)

Post-test (postest.html) Questions are identical to those in pre-test, but there will be no commentary.

 

Dependable Strengths (This is a whole 'nother site on discovering and articulating DS.)

Definition

Good Experiences

Portfolios as graphic representation of Dependable Strengths

Links to original site (to make it easier to find and copy over to this site)

http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/Careers/pfolresources.html

http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/Careers/pfolbasics.html

http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/Careers/pfolcoll.html