Creating Your High School Portfolio: An Interactive School, Career & Life Planning Workbook

Whether you're looking forward to a college education or deciding what career to choose, you will need a record of your high school career, work experience, skills, accomplishments, strengths, hopes, and dreams. Creating Your High School Portfolio accomplishes this important task by taking you step-by- step through the process of career and educational planning.

As you fill out these pages, you will clarify you career and educational goals, explore the resources available to you, and chart your new life direction. This portfolio will help you make some of the most important decisions of your life: your education, training, career, personal goals, and plans.

Develop Your Own Career and Life Portfolio A life's work portfolio is a place to store information about yourself that will help you look at career options, make decisions and plans, write resumes, and prepare for interviews for either college or jobs. Most of the checklists, worksheets, and information in this book can be put in your portfolio. You can then add other items, such as your resume, career interest test, letters of reference, and school information, plus anything else you think is important.

Don't Just Read This Book -- Use It! This book has been designed to be used and not just read. Feel free to write in it, use the worksheets, and job down notes. The pages are perforated so that you can tear them out of your portfolio or three ring binder. As your needs change, you can update the activities and worksheets and add new items to your portfolio.

About the Authors This book was developed through the efforts of many people, including the staff of the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, the editorial staff at JIST, and a variety of leaders in the field of career development. The book has been carefully field-tested and revised to meet current career development guidelines. More importantly, it provides a practical approach to career planning that has been well accepted by the people who have used it.