Creating Your Career Portfolio Practical Exercises — is a workbook of  skill awareness exercises designed to help people identify and focus on skills they have and the skills they need to succeed and get ahead. It also contains checklists and guidelines for creating a résumé and assembling a personalized career portfolio.

With the first exercise, the client begins to build a master list of skills they have and the skills they want. Each additional exercise explores different types of skills, places to gain skills, and ways to present a person ’s skills to the needs of an employer.

Exercise No. 1—Your Career Portfolio Planner - serves as a centralized place for the client to record and review the skills they have and the skills they want or need in their career. End of chapter exercises in The Family Guide will have  the client continually updating Exercise No. 1. Many of the other exercises in the Practical Exercises Workbook will also refer back to this exercise as the client continues to discover and identify new skills they have or need.

Exercise No. 2         Auditing Job Advertisements for Skills

Exercise No. 3         Class Skills Inventory

Exercise No. 4         Transferable Skills Inventory

Exercise No. 5         Soft Skills Inventory
Exercise No. 6A      Planning for the Skills You Need—College Plan of Study

Exercise No. 6B      Planning for the Skills You Need—Jobs

Exercise No. 6C      Planning for the Skills You Need—Transferable Skills

Exercise No. 7A      Résumé Development—Résumé Organizer

Exercise No. 7B      Résumé Development—Using Keywords in Your Résumé

Exercise No. 8         Gathering, Sorting, and Refining Work Samples

Exercise No. 9         Creating Your Career Portfolio – Assembly Checklist

 

  §      Exercises No. 1 and 2 are included in Module No. 1 and focus on job readiness.

§      Exercises No. 3 and 6A are included in Module No. 10 and are focused on skills developed in school.

§      Exercise No. 4 is included in Module No. 7 and highlights transferable skills.

§      Exercise No. 5 is found in Module No. 3 and helps the learner to understand the importance of interpersonal skills.

§      Exercise No. 6B is found in Module No. 4 and identifies skills needed for potential jobs.

§      Exercise No. 6C is found in Module No. 8 and focuses on skills that can be transferred from non-work life into the workplace.

§      Exercises No. 7A and 7B are found in Module No. 2 and concentrates on résumé development.

§      Exercises No. 8 and 9 are included in Module No. 5 and focus on gathering work samples and creating a career portfolio.

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