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Personal Career Personal Career PortfoliosPortfolios
Personal Career Personal Career PortfoliosPortfoliosMs. LapointeMs. Lapointe
Career CounsellorCareer Counsellor
Definition• Port – to move• Folio – papers or artifacts
• A portable collection of papers/artifacts presented in a variety of formats
• Hardcopy, electronic and web based.
What is a Career Portfolio?
• Like a Wallet: – it is a place where you keep your
prized possession and what is important to you.
– Documentation that describes you and your capabilities.
– Prove that you possess the skills and abilities.
Why should you bother making a portfolio?
– Personal development – Self Assessment
– Skill Development– Career exploration– Further education and training– For marks/Class requirement
continued• Workplace• Career Development • Life long process• Demonstrate
concrete proof of skills and learning
• Self-evaluation tool Essential tool for the new worker
• Marketing and self-promotional tool
• Assist in transition• Credit (class and
grad)• Tool used to track
and record learning experiences (skills, jobs, school, life)
• Interviews
A Portfolio Can Help Answer These
Questions:Self
1. What do I want to do next?
2. What are my strengths?3. What am I proud of?4. What am I interested in?5. Hopes, Dreams, Goals!
Employer/other:
1. Tell me about yourself?2. Why should we hire
you?3. Why do you think you
are qualified for this job?
4. Why should we grant you a scholarship/award?
Steps involved in developing a PCP
• Collect• Select • Reflect
• TIME and EFFORT – take pride in this opportunity!
What should you do first?
• Listen to this presentation and follow the instructions
• Binder, sheet protectors, dividers that work
• Then COLLECT
What should you collect?
• Transcript• Attendance record• Resume• Certificate from school• Letters of recommendation• An essay, report or article• TOKW• Picture of a team you were on• A poem, quote, book that
represents a value or belief that is important to you
• A picture of a project or plaque• List of skills and how they were
achieved • Brief description of courses taken• Short and long term goals
• Report cards• Personal Career Development Plan• Personal Interest Inventories• Documentation of membership in a
club• Extracurricular awards (swimming,
scouts, etc)• Picture or video of a completed
report• First Aid/Babysitting/etc.• Picture of family• Trophies, badges, crests, certificates• Training• Participation in an ethnic or cultural
organization• Faith development• Strengths• Abilities
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS Grade 9
• Title page (Personal Career Portfolio)
• Table of Contents – need an
INTRODUCATION section among others
– Volunteer section for practicum
• Professional & Neat – look good no spelling
errors• Letter of Reference
• Career Development Plan Sheet
• Graduation Checklist• 2 school projects• TOKW• Goals• Values• Skills
Reflect• Reflection is a lifelong process. It helps you look at what you
have done, analyze your results, measure your successes and adjust your conduct in the future. You did this naturally when you were a small child discovering how the world worked.
• Reflect part allows you to ask yourself questions about the learning connected to the portfolio item. For example:
– What have I learned?– What have I noticed– What would I do differently?– What strengths and weaknesses are shown in this item?– How does what I am doing affect my future choices?
Reflection continued• For most items
included in your portfolio you will need to provide a reflection/justification.
• Why did you include it? Why is it important?
• What did you learn?
SKILLS• Handout conference board of
Canada and skills sheet• Destination 2020• Strength sheet• SKILLS: Job Specific, Transferable,
Self Management
How to create your own sheets?
• Microsoft publisher• Clip art/borders/colours• Word
Portfolio Plan• Grade 9
– Career Guidance 90
• Grade 10– Christian Ethics 10
• Grade 11– English 20 or Christian Ethics 20
• Grade 12– Christian Ethics 30
GRADUATION!!!!!!!!!!!
Things to remember:• Order • Minimum of twenty items• Continuous project (don’t lose it
and continue to develop your portfolio)
Vanier Portfolio Plan• Grade 10
– Resume/Cover Letter, My Story
• Grade 11 – Career Report– Electronic Portfolio
• Grade 12 – Actual Interview with Portfolio
• The Beginning/Your Future– Work force, post-secondary
education, personal and professional development
Samples and Websites
• Pursueonline • Math Curriculu
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