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Career Seminar Series: Portfolios Development: Goals

This document provides guidance on creating a career portfolio for high school students. It explains that a career portfolio is a collection of documents and examples that provide a complete picture of a student's skills, experiences, accomplishments and education. The portfolio should include items like a resume, cover letter, references, recommendation letters, completed job applications, certificates, awards, community service records, samples of work and documentation of leadership roles and achievements. Maintaining a career portfolio allows students to track their progress and accomplishments and provides materials to demonstrate their qualifications for jobs or scholarships in the future.

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Career Seminar Series: Portfolios Development: Goals

This document provides guidance on creating a career portfolio for high school students. It explains that a career portfolio is a collection of documents and examples that provide a complete picture of a student's skills, experiences, accomplishments and education. The portfolio should include items like a resume, cover letter, references, recommendation letters, completed job applications, certificates, awards, community service records, samples of work and documentation of leadership roles and achievements. Maintaining a career portfolio allows students to track their progress and accomplishments and provides materials to demonstrate their qualifications for jobs or scholarships in the future.

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Career Seminar Series:

Portfolios Development
Goals:
What is a Career Portfolio?
Why Create a Career Portfolio?
What should the Portfolio Contain?
What are Optional Items that a Portfolio
Contain?
What are some examples of Portfolio
Items?

What
A

is a Career Portfolio?

Career Portfolio is a tool that each of you


can use in job hunting or even in selling
yourself to a college or a scholarship
committee!
A Career Portfolio can give an employer a
complete picture of who you are- your
experience, your education, your
accomplishments, and your skills!

Why Create a Career Portfolio in


when I am only in High School?
Each

day you are gaining in skills,


experience, education, and
accomplishments which need to be
documented!
In the process of developing your
portfolios, you can better see where
you are and where you want to go!

What Should a Career Portfolio


Contain?

Completed
application of
employment
Cover Letter
Resume
References
Letters of
Recommendation

Mock interview
evaluations
Work samples
Awards
Certificates
Community service
Records, pictures,
or displays of
accomplishments

Completed Application for


Employment
You will complete basic application
form that can be used as a reference
for all those hard to remember facts:
Names and numbers of employers
Dates of employment
Dates of schooling
Addresses and phone numbers

Cover Letter
You will create a standard cover
letter that can be used:
To introduce yourself
As a template for future letters you
may need to write
As wonderful practice! Because I
know how much you like to write!

Resume
Your portfolio should multiple copies
of your Traditional Resume
Which will be a summary of your:
Education and Achievements
Your Career Goals
Your Employment History

References

(Full name, address & phone)

Teachers
Coaches
Youth Leaders
Employers
Ministers
Do not use: Friends, Relatives, or any
one under the age of 21 years!

Letters of Recommendation
At least one letter of recommendation
from an Instructor, Guidance
Counselor, Employer, Community
Service, Youth Leader, or Minister
If you lack work experience these can
be a very valuable tool. Please be
thoughtful in asking for these!

Mock Interview Evaluation Form


In the spring each of you will prepare
for and be interviewed by a
professional from your CTE field.
The review of that interview, with
preparation and hard work, will be a
positive reflection on you!

Work Samples
Tell who you are, by what you do!
Capture your best work on these
pages:
Class Projects and Finished Products
Photos of you at work sites
Photos of your completed work
Be creative! CDs, Videos, Brochures

Career Seminar Certificates of


Attendance

Sexual Harassment
Interest Inventory
Career Awareness
Job Searching
Resumes
Cover Letters
Ready for Work?

Portfolio
Development
Interviewing Skills
Dressing for
Success
Mock Interviews
Portfolio Reviews
and Ratings

Community Service
Volunteer Firefighter
Rescue Squad Member
Red Cross
Literacy Volunteer
Church Programs
After school Programs
Community Service Agency Work

Student Leadership
Student

Council
FBLA, FFA, and other Class
Organizations
SADD
Yearbook
Committee work such as Prom,
Musical, and Open House

Student Awards and


Certificates
Note: Student Award and Certificates
are often lost as quickly as they are
handed out! Save these! Especially
any awards that reflect you abilities
as an employee- such as:
Attendance- You show up!
Team Awards- You get along with
others!

Optional Portfolio Items:


List of Achievements, Abilities and
Skills
Report Cards and Attendance
Records
Certifications in CPR, Lifeguard, etc.

Examples
These students
raised elk and
visited area
elementary classes
to tell about their
experiences and
answer questions.

Examples
These Students took
part in an mock
simulation of a bus
accident with area
EMTs, Firefighters and
Police. Moments caught
on camera can tell of
the students
commitment and
understand of crisis
management.

This is your moment to


shine!
Each day you may
be accomplishing
wonderful
examples for your
portfolio
Take this time to
brainstorm with
your neighbor
what they may be!

Share your examples


Record our list of
examples in your
portfolio binder!

Great Work!

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