- Determine if a paper or electronic portfolio best meets your needs
- Gather relevant artifacts and examples of your skills, values, abilities, work, and achievements. Use the list below to help think of examples
- Create a structure that best highlights your skills and achievements based on your career objective
- Assemble and reflect on items to supplement your interview process or job search
- Use the Career Center to have your portfolio reviewed by a career advisor
Potential documents include:
Education/Training
- Certificates, brochures, syllabi describing special training and licenses
- Instructor evaluations
- Transcripts
- Conferences and workshops attended (name tag or program)
Skill Demonstration
- Examples of problem solving (figures or pictures showing improvements)
- Leadership (committees served or projects initiated)
- Evidence of public speaking (speech outline, brochure for your presentation, photos of you at the podium)
- Writing samples (e.g., an excerpt from a paper or report)
- Documentation of computer skills (samples of online work, desktop publishing documents, programming print-outs)
- Project results/data
- Sample art work achievements
Awards/Honors
- Letters of commendation or thanks
- List of professional accomplishments
- Newspaper articles in which you were mentioned
Professional Development
- Professional organizations
- Your goals
- Reflection/professional statement of interests and goals
Past Work Experience
- Resumes
- Records showing how your clients did after receiving your services
- Data (graphs, charts) showing your accomplishments/progress/work results
- Reports
- Performance reviews
- Letters of recommendation/reference list
Learn what makes an e-portfolio different and where to build them.
For more information:
WikiHow Visual Guide to Portfolios
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