Portfolios
A portfolio is a personalized collection of items that illustrates your skills and experiences. It is a portable, creatively assembled career/job search tool. A portfolio may be used as a tool for organizing yourself in preparation for your job search/interview, or as a marketing tool that is exhibited to a prospective employer during the interview. A professional employment portfolio could be just the thing that sets you apart from other job search candidates.
What to Include:
- A copy of your resume
- An official copy of your transcript
- A fact sheet, in list form, that displays your skills and what you like to do
- A list of experiences that do not fit into your resume
- Certificates of awards and honors; special certifications for special training
- A program from an event you planned or in which you participated as part of a class project or campus organization
- A list of conferences and workshops you have attended and a description of each
- Samples of your writing
- Documentation of technical or computer skills
- Letters of commendation or thanks
- Letters of nomination to honors and academic organizations
- Newspaper articles that address some achievement
- Internship or co-op summary report
- Student teaching evaluation materials
- Sample lesson plans
- A videotape of your teaching
- Sample syllabi
- Pictures of bulletin boards you designed
- Teaching tools you have created
- Information about a field trip or other event you organized
- Pictures of yourself working with students
Print & Electronic Portfolio Samples
- Sample of Career Portfolio
from Florida State University - East Carolina University Career Center's Directions to create an ePortfolio
Learn how to create your very own ePortfolio.
- Apojigo
- Your personalized web space
- Michigan State University
- Career Portfolio Guide
- UB School of Architecture and Planning
- Artist Portfolio Guidelines by Art Support.com
- PhD's Teaching Portfolios by Univ. of California at Berkeley
- The Riley Guide
- Links to portfolio information on the web
