ePortfolios and Your Career

ePortfolios and

Your CareerEnhancing 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

What is an ePortfolio?

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 Unemploymenthttp://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 FirmsWall 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 Sentencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjBmnfI4Tn4

https://stonybrook.digication.com/emily_madsen

FIVE FACTS ABOUT ME

Kelliann FloresFacts 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 StudentIndian DaughterOlder SisterAmerican FriendTree-Hugger!

https://stonybrook.digication.com/vishwaja_muppa/About_Me

Other Examples

Chaz Wilson – Diversity Professional Leadership Networkhttps://stonybrook.digication.com/chaz_wilson

Cynthia Davidson – Writing and Teaching ePortfoliohttps://stonybrook.digication.com/cdavidson

Aman Sharma – Biomedical Engineeringhttps://stonybrook.digication.com/aman_sharma

Jim Yee – TLT Internshiphttps://stonybrook.digication.com/jim_yee

Nancy Wozniak – Career Showcasehttps://stonybrook.digication.com/nancywozniak

Kathleen Rowley – Teaching ePortfoliohttps://stonybrook.digication.com/cathleen_rowley