your future without a career portfolio

Your Future Without A Career Portfolio

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Framingthe Topic

How Teaching Online is Different

Why This Presentation?

Learn from Actors

Why Have

aPortfolio?

The Edge

10%

Proof

What’s a Portfolio?

PortfolioContents

Goals?

Working Portfolio

vs.

Presentation Portfolio

Portfolio Contents - General

• Brief bio• Resume w/ summary, competencies

& accomplishments, objectives• Client list (if appropriate)• Employee evaluations• Writing sample

Artifacts

Portfolio Contents - Artifacts

• courses taught, designed, developed• training needs analysis, design plan• storyboards, e-learning modules• surveys or evaluations• videos, multi-media productions• job aids or other tools• reports, memos, emails

Exercises

Brief overview

Do later on your own

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Accomplishments

How Will You Stand OutWill You Stand Out?

Think Like a Hiring Manager

Solve problems

Produce results

Exercise #1 Your Top

Accomplishments

Professional Standards

Competencies

Career planning & talent mgt.

Coaching

Delivering training

Designing learning

Facilitating organizational change

Competencies

Improving human performance

Managing organizational knowledge

Managing the learning function

Measuring and evaluating

Exercise #2 Linking

Accomplishmentsto Standards

Exercise #3 Documenting

Accomplishments

Tip!

Exercise #4 Formatting

Your Portfolio

Some people don’t get it…educate

them

C CAR+

C-CAR Format

C ompetency: Identify the competency

C ontext : Describe situation

A ction: Describe action you took & why

R esults: Describe outcomes, use measurable results if

possible

C-CAR Format Example 1

C ompetency: Designing Learning

C ontext : Sales revenue down after hiring new sales reps

A ction: Created company’s first online sales training course

R esults: Sales revenue rose 24.7% Qtr. after course implemented

C-CAR Format Example 2

C ompetency: Delivering Learning

C ontext : Remote staff can’t get training. New employees making 27% more errors processing claims

A ction: Taught company’s first online course in claims processing

R esults: Claims processing errors reduced by 17% after course implemented

One Artifact – Many Skills

Many Skills

One Artifact

Work Samples Dated?

Grab ‘Em

Hate Love

Confidential or Proprietary Content

Exercise #5 ActionPlan

Personal Action Plan

Clarify your career goals

Identify competencies for your goal

Draft your top ten accomplishments 

Solicit, gather & document artifacts

Document undocumented competencies

Personal Action Plan(continued)

Format using C-CAR method

Use C-CAR for performance appraisal

Update resume with accomplishments

Publish, post, share portfolio

Get feedback and revise

Action Plan

ManagingYour

Portfolio

Creating anePortfolio

Hardto do?

ePortfolios

Why have one?

Uses?

Public or private?

Expertise, time, money

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Layout Choices

Sample Layout

Color Choices

Share & Publish

C ompetency

C ontext

A ction

R esults

Visual CV

Summary

• Y• C• T• B

Hot Competencies

• Authoring tools• eLearning experience• Instructional design• SME • industry experience • versatility

Using Portfolios inJob Search & Interview

1. Include in cover letter and interview2. Include website link (if appropriate)3. Focus on competencies & show samples4. Include in thank you letter 5. Send additional sample to create interest

Should I Do This?

Dig a well when you are not thirsty

Dig your well before you’re thirsty

Don’t Leave Your Career to Chance

Your Future?

Looks better with a portfolio

Remember Actors

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