ePortfolios and Your Career

ePortfolios
and
Your Career
Enhancing your job application and documenting a lifetime of
learning and achievement

Outcomes for this Workshop
● Recognize the difference between a
paper resume, interactive resume and
website and an eportfolio
● Understand the eportfolio process and
demonstrate folio thinking in your own
career eportfolio
● Understand the importance of having
an online identity and develop your
own professional brand

An ePortfolio is
● a collection of work developed
across varied contexts over time
that demonstrates the owner's
skills, abilities and experience

An ePortfolio is
● a digital repository of artifacts,
which can be used to
demonstrate competence and
helps the owner to achieve a
greater understanding of their
individual growth, career planning
and CV building

An ePortfolio is
● it's the owners personal and
continuing presence in an
online community of
discourse (Downes, 2004)

An ePortfolio
● helps the owner build working,
interactive connections
between academic, career,
community service and
personal areas of life through
reflection and feedback

Over time, my eportfolio
will help me to
demonstrate my
competencies in an online
community with
interactive connections.
Our Definition

Eportfolio Uses
● Course and Program Assessment
● First Year Experience
● Learning Showcase
● Personal Reflection
● Capstone
● Teaching and Professional Showcase
● Internship and Career

ePortfolio
Emphasizes “process”
over “product”
It’s not the tool.

Foundation of the Portfolio Process
Folio Thinking
building a lifetime connections through collecting, reflecting
and gathering feedback

Advantages of “Folio Thinking”
Collect>Select>Reflect>Connect
PROJECT

A brand is
a combination of attributes,
communicated through a NAME,
or a symbol, that INFLUENCES a
thought-process in the mind of an
AUDIENCE and CREATES
VALUE.

Why Develop a Professional Brand?
● a personal brand portrays you as a
professional and provides employers,
colleagues and contacts with a strong
positive impression of you as a high-
caliber, competent, TRUSTED
individual who would be an asset to
any organization.

Why Develop a Professional Brand?
it's important to have an
online presence where
you can showcase your
skills and experience.

A career eportfolio provides an ideal
tool and process for which to create
and develop your professional online
brand and Internet identity.
YOU'RE IN CONTROL!

Prospective employers
will run a search for you
on the Web!

60 Minutes – Trapped in Unemployment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD3AjeluO54
● “The resume will very soon become an obsolete tool
in the job search process.”
● “When employers are considering you for a job they
will go to the Internet to see what comes up. If you
have nothing that shows up...you're not relevant.”

The paper resume is obsolete!
No More Résumés, Say Some Firms
Wall Street Journal
January 24, 2012
“A résumé doesn't provide much depth about a candidate”

Do
Prospective
Employers
Look at
ePortfolios ?

2009 Clemson Study
● ePortfolios may assist supervisors in becoming more
aware of an applicant’s knowledge, skills and abilities
● recruiters from a career fair and students rated four
types of applications for the position of career
counselor:
– paper resume
– web resume
– ePortfolio
– interactive resume

Clemson Study Results
● Resumes were viewed as easy to understand
(remember this is 2009)
● ePortfolios which included resumes were viewed
more favorably.
● ePortfolios and interactive resumes were rated
as having the most impact on the job outcome.
● Examples of a interactive resume (template):
paper - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20101288114800_927.pdf
website - http://www.leadyou.com/sample/?idtemplate=277

What Goes Into Your ePortfolio?
● Inviting Landing or Welcome Page
● Bio or About Me Section with visions, goals and logo
● Interactive Resume
● Artifacts that demonstrate your professional abilities and
skills
● Artifacts that demonstrate connections between your
academic, career, service and personal (interests) lives
● Presentation formats that demonstrate a wide range of
multimedia use (images and video)
● Evidence-based reflective pieces that demonstrate
critical, analytical and creative thinking skills

What abilities and characteristics do employers look
for in a job applicant?
Ability to
● work in a team structure
● verbally communicate with persons inside and outside the
organization
● make decisions and solve problems
● obtain and process information
● plan, organize, and prioritize work
● analyze quantitative data
● demonstrate technical knowledge related to the job
● demonstrate proficiency with computer software programs
● create and/or edit written reports
● sell or influence others

Evidenced-Based Reflective Prompts
● What skill or ability did you learn from this experience and did you apply it to other areas of your
life?
● What about this assignment or program was most useful to you? Can you see a relationship to
other courses or activities in your academic and/or professional career?
● How would you recommend this course, project or program to others? What suggestions would
you offer?
● What areas and abilities in your life were strengthened or improved by this course, assignment,
project or activity?
● List the ways you have grown as a result of this assignment, course, project, activity or program.
● What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?
● What risks did you take and what did you discover about yourself?
● What strengths and talents did you discover and demonstrate by doing this assignment/activity?
● If you had it to do all over again, would you? Why? What would you change?
● How did this experience prepare you for your professional career?

What’s Your
Sentence ?
In a sentence, how would you like to be
remembered100 years from now ?

What’s Your Sentence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjBmnfI4Tn4
https://stonybrook.digication.com/emily_madsen

Kelliann Flores
Facts About Me
1. Have taught at Stony Brook University since 1998, and at Suffolk County Community
College since 2005.
2. Taught English as a Second Language in Mexico as a teen.
3. At Suffolk, I have appointments in Humanities and in Spanish. At Stony Brook, I have had
appointments in Hispanic Languages and Literature, Women's Studies, the School of
Professional Development (with Women's Studies classes), and the Harriman College of
Business (also with Women's Studies classes). Teach face-to-face and online.
4. Frequently combine Spanish and Women's Studies: In WST, there are many wonderful
Latin American authors I use, and in Intermediate Spanish classes, women's issues are
integrated in small ways, such as discussing women presidents.
5. Will try just about any technology to help with teaching: blogs, Facebook, wikis, Prezi,
Power Point, Youtube, Piazza, Blackboard, Quia, WileyPlus, Skype. Use more traditional
media, like movie and TV clips. If it works well, I keep it.
https://stonybrook.digication.com/kelliann_schrage_flores_teaching_portfolio

Vishwaja Muppa
Five things about me:
PreMed Student
Indian Daughter
Older Sister
American Friend
Tree-Hugger!
https://stonybrook.digication.com/vishwaja_muppa/About_Me

Other Examples
Chaz Wilson – Diversity Professional Leadership Network
https://stonybrook.digication.com/chaz_wilson
Cynthia Davidson – Writing and Teaching ePortfolio
https://stonybrook.digication.com/cdavidson
Aman Sharma – Biomedical Engineering
https://stonybrook.digication.com/aman_sharma
Jim Yee – TLT Internship
https://stonybrook.digication.com/jim_yee
Nancy Wozniak – Career Showcase
https://stonybrook.digication.com/nancywozniak
Kathleen Rowley – Teaching ePortfolio
https://stonybrook.digication.com/cathleen_rowley

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