6.02
Create a career portfolio that
exemplifies personal acquisition of
academic, occupational, and SCANS
competencies/employability skills.
Essential Question's
How is my Career Management Portfolio a
reflection of me?
How is the portfolio a “work in progress”?
How will my portfolio be valuable to me in
the future?
Show proof of employability attributes
through the selection of artifacts.
Punctuality
Attendance
Cooperation/Teamwork
Responsibility
Professionalism
Work ethic
Exemplify SCANS competencies
through the selection of artifacts.
1.
Workplace competencies
 Resources
•
(plan of action you created while serving as chairperson of
prom committee)
 Interpersonal skills
•
(documentation of a church mission trip to another country)
 Information
•
(spreadsheet of personal budget)
 Systems
•
(serving as a club officer)
 Technology
•
(photograph of building that you constructed)
2. Foundation skills
a. Basic skills
1.) Reading
2.) Writing (creative writing, research paper)
3.) Math
4.) Speaking
5.) Listening
b. Thinking skills
1.) Creativity
2.) Decision-making
3.) Problem solving
4.) Reasoning
c. Personal qualities (a letter from a club sponsor summarizing
your leadership skills)
A Personal Career Portfolio
Section I – Introduction
• Table of Contents
• Letter of Introduction (skills, goals, analysis of portfolio
contents)
Section II – Personal Information
• Birth Certificate, Driver License, Photo ID, Work Permit,
etc.
Section III – Self-assessment
Section IV – Career Research
Section V – Decision Making Process Flow
Sheet
Section VI – Career and Education Planning
Section VII – Employability Skills
• Job seeking Skills
• Artifacts Demonstrating SCANS
Competencies
Section VIII – Employee Attributes
Career Portfolio should contain the
following
 Transcripts
 Letter of recommendations
 Samples of your best work
 Reference letters
 Certificate of achievements
 Newspaper articles featuring your community
service
 Documents showing how you manage time, how
you balance life roles, and how you make
decision
Career Portfolio
 helps you plan your education, career and life
 is a professional collection of accomplishments
 it provides evidence of each of the following,
accomplishments, skills, and movement toward self
improvement
 can help you get to know yourself better
 don’t handwrite your labels, it could take away from the
professional appearance of your portfolio
A pay check is not valuable for a portfolio
Career Portfolio
 can help you make decisions about your career and
education
 Career portfolios are not random collections of
accomplishments, your goals should guide you in
selecting documents
 are worthwhile investment of time because it documents
a individuals life, education and career
 can help someone reflect on interests, achievements
and goals
 no ones portfolio will be the same
Career portfolios
 as a student a portfolio is used mostly to learn
about yourself
 attributes are the most difficult to demonstrate
with documents
 during an interview a portfolio will help you
present believable, accurate description of
yourself
 If you aspire to work in the medical field, include
a copy of your first aid and CPR card should be
placed in your portfolio.
Career Portfolio
If you aspire to work with children you
should include a letter from a elementary
principal thanking you for tutoring
Your report card with declining grades will
not display a attribute of responsibility
Your official transcript will display an
attribute of punctuality
Electronic Career Portfolio
An Disadvantage is that it may be viewed
as a random collection of documents by
potential employers
An Advantage is that you can email it.