Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide for Dietitians

Great for students planning for a dietetic internship or for seasoned Registered Dietitians, there’s one tool that will set you ahead of your competition: The Career Portfolio. This unique process presented in this book will help you catalog your work experience, accomplishments, and awards in an easy-to-use format. Step-by-step instructions are presented in a user-friendly format; we demonstrate how you can create your own career portfolio.

Launch and Advance Your Career!
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 or promotion? Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-a-Glance Guide for Dietitians can give you the edge you need to get the job you want.

Get that Dietetic Internship!
• Highlight your academic experiences
• Focus on course work and project samples
• Use your Career Portfolio to effectively fill out internship applications.

Track your Professional Development!
A career portfolio is the perfect complement to your Professional Development Portfolio (PDP). Properly developing and maintaining a career portfolio will keep you prepared for an audit by the Commission on Dietetic Registration! Use your career portfolio to store and professionally present all of your development activities work samples, certificates, awards, and all your professional paperwork.

Includes CD-ROM with templates for many commonly used forms including an electronic portfolio template!

Features

Designed to meet the special needs of dietitians—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.
Appendixes with dietetic-specific materials—including
- Common job titles and skills for dietitians
- Dietetic work samples
- Common dietetic professional abbreviations
- Sample dietetic internship application
Electronic templates—On an accompanying CD. Provides Microsoft Word templates with commonly used forms for goals and objectives, statements of originality, references, awards, projects in process, project overview cards, etc. Save time during assembly by using pre- designed templates.