Career Transitions-
Transferable Skills and Career Portfolio Workbook

by Anna Graf Willams & Karen J. Hall

ISBN: 978-0-9796434-1-5
Publisher:
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 81 pp.
Published: 10/15/2007

$24.95

Description

Geared to Workforce Development, Reentry, and
At-Risk Youth Populations

The Career Transitions-Transferable Skills & Career Portfolio Workbook contains skill awareness exercises designed to help people identify their current skills and the skills they need to succeed. It also contains checklists and guidelines for creating a résumé and assembling a personalized career portfolio.

With the first exercise, a client begins to create a master list of his or her skills. Each additional exercise explores different types of skills, places to gain skills, and ways to present these skills to an employer.

Contents

• Exercise 1 Taking Inventory of Your Transferable Skills
• Exercise 2 What Skills Do You Need for the Job?
• Exercise 3 Soft Skills Inventory
• Exercise 4 Planning for the Skills You Need On the Job
• Exercise 5 Job Matching and Career Pathing
• Exercise 6 What are Your Keywords?
• Exercise 7 Identifying and Creating Work Samples
• Exercise 8 Your Career Portfolio Planner
• Exercise 9 Résumé Development—Résumé Organizer
• Exercise 10 Résumé Development—Using Keywords in Your Résumé
• Exercise 11 Gathering, Sorting, and Refining Work Samples
• Exercise 12 Creating Your Work Philosophy and Goals
• Exercise 13 Assembling Your Career Portfolio
• Exercise 14 Check Your Attitude

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