Personal Career Portfolios

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Personal Career Portfolios

• Ms. Lapointe
• Career Counsellor

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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.

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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.

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Why should you bother making a portfolio?

• Personal development Self Assessment
• Skill Development
• Career exploration
• Further education and training
• For marks/Class requirement

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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

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A Portfolio Can Help Answer These Questions

• Self
• What do I want to do next?
• What are my strengths?
• What am I proud of?
• What am I interested in?
• Hopes, Dreams, Goals!

• Employer/other
• Tell me about yourself?
• Why should we hire you?
• Why do you think you are qualified for this job?
• Why should we grant you a scholarship/award?

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Steps involved in developing a PCP

• Collect
• Select
• Reflect
• TIME and EFFORT take pride in this opportunity!

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What should you do first?

• Listen to this presentation and follow the
  instructions
• Binder, sheet protectors, dividers that work
• Then COLLECT

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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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SKILLS

• Handout conference board of Canada and skills
  sheet
• Destination 2020
• Strength sheet
• SKILLS Job Specific, Transferable, Self
  Management

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How to create your own sheets?

• Microsoft publisher
• Clip art/borders/colours
• Word

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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!!!!!!!!!!!
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Things to remember

• Order
• Minimum of twenty items
• Continuous project (dont lose it and continue to
  develop your portfolio)

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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

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Samples and Websites

• Pursueonline
• Math Curriculum Information

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THANK YOU

• ROOM 221
• Christa.lapointe_at_htcsd.ca