The career portfolio workbook : using the newest tool in your job-hunting arsenal to impress employers and land a great job

Title:

Author:

Satterthwaite, Frank.

ISBN:

9780071408554

Personal Author:

Satterthwaite, Frank.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

ix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Contents:

Building, using, and maintaining your career portfolio -- Introduction : what is a career portfolio -- Assembling your master portfolio -- Targeting your portfolio -- Using informational interviews to perfect your portfolio -- Creating resumes that work with your portfolio -- Using your portfolio to get that job -- Getting that raise and other important uses for portfolios -- Developing your portfolio to protect and advance your career -- Digital options for your portfolio and resume -- Portfolios on the fly : creating a portfolio in a few hours -- Examples of targeted portfolios -- Zachary Schwartz : getting a job in a highly competitive field -- Gwen Johnson : from homemaker to paid job -- Peter Evans : getting that first job after graduating from school -- Karen Cresson : changing careers -- Amanda Ferraro : getting that promotion.

Subject Term:

Employment portfolios.

Job hunting.

Employment portfolios. (OCoLC)fst00909379

Job hunting. (OCoLC)fst00983693

Added Author:

D'Orsi, Gary.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/mh041/2002152912.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh031/2002152912.html

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Summary

Innovative ideas for creating a skill-based career portfolio

For job seekers looking to provide tangible, easily accessible proof of their skills and accomplishments, a portfolio of careerrelated documents is fast becoming the essential tool. The Career Portfolio Workbook shows readers how to compile and organize a career portfolioone that is easy to review and quickly adaptable to specific interviews and circumstances.

The Career Portfolio Workbook provides job seekers of any profession or experience level with a powerful new weaponthe confidence and the material to promote themselves and their work to others. Its step-by-step process explains how to:

Create a career portfolio of personal skillswhy, how, and what to include Target a career portfolio to specific needsa job interview, a performance review, or a career transition Prepare materials, based on more than 50 sample documentsand five complete portfolio samples