Creating Your Career Portfolio : At a Glance Guide for Students

Hall, Karen J., Williams, Anna Graf

ISBN 10: 0131505041 / ISBN 13: 9780131505049

Editore: Pearson Education, Limited, 2004

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Riassunto:

For courses in Career Planning, Career Development, Employment/Job Search; Intro courses where students will begin to compile projects and work samples to show skills; and Senior Seminar/Capstone Courses where advanced students are preparing to enter the workplace.

Designed to assist students in pulling together their skills and competencies, this innovative, easy-to-read guidebook provides detailed instructions for planning, assembling, and using a personal Career Portfolio for a job search or promotion. It shows students how to tie together and “package” their work class project, professional development, and personal experiences to help “sell themselves” in the job market.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

The employment market of the new millennium has not gotten any easier. 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? Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-a-Glance Guide for Students can give you the edge you need.

Launch Your Career!

Now that your resume has gotten you the interviews you want ― use your Career Portfolio to get you the job. A Career Portfolio is a self-certification tool that contains samples of your work, community service, memberships, goals, and more. Use it to show off your greatest strengths and abilities.

Get that Internship or Co-Or

• Highlight your academic experiences
• Focus on course work and project samples

Third Edition - New Features

• Extensive discussion on identifying and understanding transferable skills
• All new – "Ask the Experts" for answers to your most common questions
• More details on electronic portfolios – how to develop them and how to use them
• Updated electronic templates – including an electronic portfolio template
• Expanded discussion on documenting soft (interpersonal) skills
• Greater descriptions on how to use your Career Portfolio!

Includes CD-ROM with templates for creating an electronic portfolio

• Microsoft WORD templates contain commonly used forms for goals, objectives, statements of originality, references, awards, projects in progress and project overview cards

The resume may get you the interview...
but it's the Career Portfolio that gets you the job!!

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Creating Your Career Portfolio : At a Glance...
Casa editrice: Pearson Education, Limited
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Fine
Edizione: 3rd Edition.