Electronic portfolios used in career development

After conducting your Internet research on the topic of electronic portfolios used in career development or academic studies: please discuss the following.

1) What did you find?

2) Was there anything that you learned that could be applied to career development or your potential job interviews with the use of a portfolio?

**Use the references below to answer the requirement questions above

1) E-Portfolios for Learning – http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/labels/portfolios.html

2) Career Activity File – Career Portfolio – PDF:

http://www.okcareertech.org/educators/career-and-academic-connections/11756CarActFile.pdf/view?searchterm=e+portf

3) EPortfolios: What\’s behind the hype?
http://inews.berkeley.edu/bcc/Spring2004/eportfolio.html

4) The Next Big Thing? The Promise of e-Portfolios at NYU and Beyond – http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/connect/spring03/pdfs/adams_eport.pdf

SAMPLE SOLUTION

What I Found Out

Before this research, I did not know much about electronic portfolios. Despite being aware of the concept, I was surprised to learn the magnitude of scale to which they are being implemented. I found out that there are various types of portfolios, each used depending on the purpose it is meant to accomplish. For instance, there are a student or individual portfolios, teaching profiles, and institutional portfolios. I established that institutions make use of both individual and teaching portfolios to create their own electronic profile to demonstrate the educational progression or apply it as a tool for accreditation. One of the pages that I visited gave a list of various websites where the electronic profiles can be uploaded to.

How to Apply What I Learned to My Career Development First, I now know what should go and what ought not to be included in an electronic portfolio as well as how to create one. To develop one’s profile, technology skills become handy and a well-executed portfolio is likely to attract traffic and expose the owner to various opportunities. It is without a doubt that the use of electronic medium has the status of being the most potent means of transmitting career accruals. I know that the potential employers evaluate the applicants not only based on their resume, but also on how they have built their electronic profile. Given the difficulty of getting a job nowadays…