The value of a Digital Portfolio
Your Career Highways digital portfolio is yours for life. This means you can use it to get your first scholarship/internship and continue to update it over time as you grow within your industry.
A portfolio is a living and changing collection of records that reflect your accomplishments, skills, experiences, and attributes. It highlights and showcases samples of some of your best work, along with life experiences, values, and achievements.
The personal information that you incorporate into your portfolio can greatly reflect on your abilities as an individual as well as become a useful tool in marketing yourself to employers, corporations,
colleges and universities.
A portfolio does not take the place of a resume, but it can show off your abilities and help employers understand how you might fit in a particular job.
WHAT IS A DIGITAL PORTFOLIO AND ITS USE?
A portfolio is a tool to compile, showcase, and share your best work along with life experiences, values, and achievements with colleges, potential employers, and industry professionals.
A portfolio is a living and changing collection of records that reflect your accomplishments, skills, experiences, and attributes.
MANAGING YOUR DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
- KEEP YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE IN MIND – What do you want them to learn? Why should they keep reading?
- BE CONSISTENT and keep the page design simple. You really want the viewer to notice the content!
- TELL YOUR STORY – Explain who you are, how you got here, where you see yourself in the future.
- DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE your learning and critical thinking by providing evidence such as writing samples, video documentation, still images, data collected, etc. and a description of any evidence to help your audience fully understand why it matters.
- KEEP A LIST of challenges, solutions, and achievements to help you better discuss your growth and conquered obstacles.
- INDICATE the type of work you want to do in the future. Your digital portfolio is a good place to show that you are not stagnant and continually have innovative approaches to learning
- Keep your digital portfolio ORGANIZED and browsable. Make it easy to navigate with keywords and important information available in a few clicks. To make your portfolio more searchable, link to related websites or other resources.
- Think of your digital portfolio as a LIVING DOCUMENT that needs routine care. Review, edit and update the content often.
- Provide CONTACT INFORMATION. Use your professional title, phone number and email address.
- Ask for feedback. Seek opinions about the content and style of your portfolio from multiple, trusted viewers, such as mentors, colleagues, family and friends.
Once your portfolio in Career Highways iis complete, you can share your portfolio with others, so that they are able to view your work:
STEP 1- Login into Career Highways
STEP 2- Create your shareable link Click the “Share my Profile” button on your Career Highways dashboard to generate your shareable link.
STEP 3- Review your Portfolio/Resume. Copy that link and paste it in your web browser to see how your profile displays. Fix any mistakes you notice.
STEP 4- Share away!