ON-LINE  RESOURCES

 
Dalhousie University.  2006.  Career Portfolio Requirements for COMM 2801.  Revised by Dr. Dawn Henwood.  25 pp. http://sba.management.dal.ca/Files/Work_Term_Material/CareerPortfolio2801.pdf

•     Provides detailed instruction and worksheets for a course assignment to create a career portfolio.  Provides a rubric for grading the completed portfolios.

 
Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students.   Career portfolio site.    https://facts023.facts.usf.edu/portfolio/index.jsp

 

Martin Kimeldorf’s Portfolio Library.  http://amby.com/kimeldorf/portfolio/

• Provides guides and examples of career portfolios.

 
 

PRINT  RESOURCES

William A. Borgen, Norman E. Amundson, Jan Reuter.  2004.  Using portfolios to enhance career resilience.  Journal of Employment Counseling 41(2): 50-59.

        Reports on research assessing the outcomes of a program that led Canadian government workers to develop fuller understanding of their career development through, among other things, creting professional portfolios.

 

Kay Burke.  1997.  Designing Professional Portfolios for Change.  Thousand Oaks CA:  Corwin Press.  168 pp., ISBN 1575170566.

        Focuses on professional portfolios for K-12 teachers as a tool for and assessment of professional development.

 

Martin Kimeldorf.  1997.  Portfolio Power: The New Way to Showcase All Your Job Skills and Experiences.  Princeton NJ:  Peterson’s. Education Center 189 pp., ISBN 1560797614.

Distingushes career, job-search, career advancement, and lifetime-learning portfolios;  physical and electronic.  Provides step-by-step guidance to collecting artifacts, writing captions, organization of the portfolio, and portfolio design.  Includes a chapter on translating accomplishments in the military into language for the civilian context.

 

Frank Satterthwaite and Gary D’Orsi.  2003.  The Career Portfolio Workbook.  New York NY:  McGraw-Hill.  252 pp., ISBN 007140855X.

        Contains useful, straightforward introductions to the key terms and purposes, provides five examples of highly targeted career portfolios, and a workbook for creating one’s own portfolio.

 

Carrie Straub.  1997.  Creating Your Skills Portfolio.  Menlo Park CA:  Crisp.  71 pp., ISBN 1560523948.

·        Introduces the idea and utility of career portfolios, and explains and illustrates three different formats for career portfolios.