Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-A-Glance Guide for Students
Language: English
Published by Prentice Hall, 2004
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- Title
- Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-A-Glance Guide for Students
- Author
- Williams, Anna Graf
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0131505041
- ISBN 13
- 9780131505049
- Edition
- 3rd 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. 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.
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From the Back Cover
The employment market of the new millennium has not gotten any easier. Employers are more demanding and more selective than ever. How do you distinguish yourself from your competition and prove that you are the right person for the job? Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-a-Glance Guide for Students can give you the edge you need.
Launch Your Career!Now that your resume has gotten you the interviews you want — use your Career Portfolio to get you the job. A Career Portfolio is a self-certification tool that contains samples of your work, community service, memberships, goals, and more. Use it to show off your greatest strengths and abilities.
Get that Internship or Co-Or- Highlight your academic experiences
- Focus on course work and project samples
- Extensive discussion on identifying and understanding transferable skills
- All new – "Ask the Experts" for answers to your most common questions
- More details on electronic portfolios – how to develop them and how to use them
- Updated electronic templates – including an electronic portfolio template
- Expanded discussion on documenting soft (interpersonal) skills
- Greater descriptions on how to use your Career Portfolio!
Includes CD-ROM with templates for creating an electronic portfolio
- Microsoft WORD templates contain commonly used forms for goals, objectives, statements of originality, references, awards, projects in progress and project overview cards
but it's the Career Portfolio that gets you the job!!
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