Creating Your Career Portfolio: At a Glance Guide for Students (3rd Edition)
Creating Your Career Portfolio: At a Glance Guide for Students (3rd Edition)
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars Creating Your Career Portfolio
This is at best a good civic lesson for a grade school, freshman in High School class text. No real employer would ever find this portfolio professional or useful. It presents a lot of hype, fluff, and encourages the reader to overstate and exagerate his skills.
5 Stars Exactly what I needed!
I was trying to create a resume and a portfolio for a competition. This book was exactly what I needed, and I was successful in reaching my goal.
Other reviewers felt that this book was more for high school kids. I am a PhD candidate at a major university. My advisor suggested this book, and I am grateful for the tip.
5 Stars Top-Notch
Finally, a book that is perfect for both professionals and students! (See also the trade version) Williams and Hall take readers through the step-by-step creative process. Complete with materials and equipment lists, this book also provides templates on disk to help those who are less experienced with technology. This books makes a wonderful instrument as a college text.
Professionals and students alike will find that they are better prepared for that all-important interview just by going through the creative process. The authors take the reader through the process of developing a portfolio by leading the creator to think critically about their own philosophies, goals, and ideas. This mental exercise alone makes one better prepared to answer those “difficult” interview questions.
A must have for serious professionals!
3 Stars A book for high school kids
I bought this book hoping for a serious advice for a professional portfolio creating, but found a bunch of recommendations good for high school-freshmen on how to best present their non-professional expereinces… How a real professional’s portfolio looks like - is still a question for me… It seems like a portflio created following these guidelines would make a seasoned professional, an employer, smile at “the kid’s nice attempt”.
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