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Module No. 5
Creating Your Career Portfolio and Leaving the Job

This module is designed to help clients understand the reasons for leaving a job and the appropriate procedures to follow. It also helps the client develop a career portfolio which can be used to documenting their skills and abilities and assist them in getting a job. This module is divided into three parts:

Part 1 – Leaving a Job

  • Identifying reasons for leaving
  • Resigning from a job
  • Understanding benefit options
  • Completing the job.

Part 2 – Collecting and Organizing Work Samples

  • Choosing good work samples for use in a career portfolio
  • Organizing work samples in a career portfolio.

Part 3 – Producing a Career Portfolio

  • Creating documents for the portfolio
  • Writing goal statements and a work philosophy
  • Pulling together work samples, a resume, and goals to create a finished career portfolio.

Activities in this Module

  • Read Chapter 6 of The Family Guide to the American Workplace
  • Complete end of chapter goal-setting exercise
  • Update the Career Portfolio Planner (Exercise No. 1 in the Practical Exercises)
  • Complete Exercises 8 and 9 of Creating Your Career Portfolio Practical Exercises
  • Assemble a complete Career Portfolio using the Portfolio Kit
  • Complete a skill development plan for “Leaving the Job” (end of chapter Goal-Setting Exercise).

Books

Creating your Career Portfolio-At a Glance Guide Anna Graf Williams and Karen J. Hall ©2001, Prentice Hall.

Hidden rules of class at work. Ruby K Payne, Ph.D., Don L Krabill, ©2002, aha! Process, Inc. Highlands, TX.

A framework for understanding poverty. Ruby K Payne, Ph.D., ©2001, aha! Process, Inc. Highlands, TX.

Videos

Career portfolios – Learnovation, LLC.
Video #1 - Creating Your Career Portfolio – Assembling Your Portfolio

Supplemental Materials

work samples (members-only site)

portfolio samples - Coming Soon!

Links

Learnovation, LLC - www.learnovation.com –
resources for career portfolios.

www.So You Wanna -
information on resigning from a job

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