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The Experience Webinar “Online Career Portfolios”

is scheduled to begin at 2 pm Eastern April 24, 2008

Online Career Portfolios

April 24, 2008

Agenda

What is an Online Portfolio

How Does It Help Students & Alumni

Schools Using Online Portfolios

Sample Student Portfolios

Employer Feedback

Portfolio Demo

Templates That You Can Use

What is a Portfolio?

Traditionally used by artists, architects, and photographers

A collection of work samples to illustrate talents and skills

Often a physical booklet brought to an interview for discussion and review

What is an Online Portfolio?

Can include activities, awards, certificates, writing samples, evaluations, recommendation letters, projects, presentations, speeches etc.

An interactive version that help students & alumni:

record, track, present and share

their skills, experiences and talents

with prospective employers, networking contacts and graduate schools.

An interactive version that help students & alumni:

record, track, present and share

their skills, experiences and talents

with prospective employers, networking contacts and graduate schools.

How Does an Online Portfolio Help Students & Alumni

Remember what they accomplished

Prepare for interviews

Stand out to employers and/or graduate schools with a more in-depth professional view

Provide good background info about themselves for networking

Become more easily found by employers conducting searches

Capture achievements for performance reviews

What an Online Portfolio is NOT

Does not replace a resume

Can be in addition to a real physical portfolio

Schools Using Online Portfolios

Florida State University

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Fresh Soph Jr Sr Grad

Launched 2002

47k students using online portfolio

Faculty outreach and buy-in tied into classes

Portfolio contest

In-house system

http://www.career.fsu.edu/portfolio

# Portfolio Users by Class

UC–San Diego

Launched 2004

7k students using online portfolio

Optional usage

Encourage students to use as career developmental tool

Career development classes, students marketing to students

Licensed FSU system

Demo - http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/portfolio.shtml

Kennesaw State University

Launched in 2003

Use as career development tool

Requires every freshmen to create a portfolio as part of their first-year experience program

Gets freshmen involved with Career Services early

87% of portfolio users plan to keep using them

In-house system

Tips from Schools

Effective for students & alums, but need to convince them to make time to complete portfolios

Best if they fill it out as they go

Just as helpful for identifying strengths as it is in sharing with employers

Try to draw a direct line between portfolios and job interviews

Key Differences

Experience portfolios only have 4 sections (profile, resume, experiences, references)

Skills are tags, not a separate section that needs to be filled out

Experience portfolios are searchable by employers

Experience portfolio is available for your use as part of eRecruiting

Employer Feedback

Employer Feedback

44% have viewed an online portfolio (108 survey respondents)

42% would use an online portfolio when filtering for interviews (especially for "on-the-fence" candidates)

22% would use an online portfolio after an interview to learn more about the candidate

More Employer Feedback

Small survey of employers (survey ongoing)

77% said the additional information a portfolio offers about a candidate would be useful

69% think an online career portfolio can help a student or young professional stand out from other candidates

43% thought it would be most useful for a candidate to share his/her online portfolio as part of the application process

77% find it useful to be able to search online portfolios

In Summary, an Online Portfolio is…

Career development tool

A way for students & alums to showcase their talents and experiences

A way for students & alums to be found by employers

Portfolio DemoFeatures & Functionality

Overview

Building, Sharing & Tracking Portfolios

Accessing Portfolio

Is this Beta version fully functional and secure?

Understanding Views

Building a PortfolioProfile

Resume/Career Interests

Experiences/File upload

References

Help

Creating a Shared ViewAdding templates/components

Customizing Order

Previewing

Sharing

Tracking your Shared Views

Resources Available within University Resources &

eRecruiting

Marketing Toolbox

Marketing Toolbox

Two email templates: Freshmen/Sophomores and Juniors/Seniors

Templates are available to use either within eRecruiting (necessary for automatic username/password inclusion) or with your own email client (e.g., Outlook)

Portfolio demo: http://portfolio.experience.com/demo

eRecruiting Administrative View

eRecruiting Administrative View

eRecruiting Administrative View

eRecruiting Administrative View

Q&A

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