Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide for Professionals
by Anna Graf Williams, Ph.D.,
Karen J. Hall,
Diana Adele Wyatt, Ph.D.,
Michael J. Peterson

ISBN: 978-0-9796434-3-9
Publisher: Learnovation, LLC
Copyright: 2012
Format: Paper; 198 pgs.

Published: 10-10-11

 

$34.95

 

Take control of your own career development -
Prove you have what it takes to advance!

 

Just Released!

Here's the latest book in the Career Portfolio series...... Creating Your Career Portfolio-At-A-Glance Guide for Professionals. 

 

New career topics include:

• How you can use your career portfolio and ePortfolio to respond to top grading
• Where to collect your work samples for best outcomes assessment
• How to quantify your leadership skills--growing leadership abilities
• Setting Up Career Planning and Management Systems that promote landing a new job to advancement
• The importance of both an electronic ePortfolio and a hard copy of your career portfolio
• Efficient structuring of your existing skills, abilities, tools and technology into a career portfolio
• Being able to use life skills and experience to gain college credit
• How to effectively combine your rare talents from a career transition to new focused competencies in your target career
• Tips for employer tuition reimbursement programs

Career Portfolio Development
Career portfolios have long been tools used by job seekers to find a job. Now they are becoming the tool of choice for individuals and organizations who want to document skills and performance on the job. Career portfolios are a great way to package your abilities and accomplishments on the job for your own career advancement.

Developing a Career Portfolio allows you to:

• Perform an individual self assessment
• Identify internal career paths, both lateral and vertical
• Identify and develop key skills needed to excel within the organization and industry
• Track goals and goal completion
• Prove ability and value to the company while improving confidence.

Return on Investment
Companies are also seeing the value of career portfolios. Use your career portfolio to promote yourself and advance your career. Developing a career portfolio supports both the individual employee and the organization. Career portfolios allow individuals to heighten awareness of their own skills and abilities, improve self-confidence, and more accurately create a career path within an organization.

When used properly, career portfolios assist organizations by:
• Reducing unwanted turnover
• Retaining rare talent
• Improving job matching
• Supporting employees in transitioning across organizational units
• Identifying and utilizing transferable skills within employee talent pools
• Tracking skill sets
• Identifying where skill sets are nested organizationally