Maintaining a résumé and professional portfolio should include updating and supplementing
- a résumé that lists job skills, experience, education, certifications, professional organization involvement, awards and recognitions, and references
- a portfolio that documents work samples that demonstrate the student’s design processes (e.g., photographs, descriptions, storyboards, graphic presentations).
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- How are career portfolios used in the workplace?
- Can a career portfolio ever be too large? Why, or why not?
Communication
- Why is it important to keep a career portfolio and résumé up to date?
- Why is a career portfolio never finished?
Leadership
- How are career portfolios helpful?
- What technology is available to maintain an electronic career portfolio?
Management
- What skills are required to maintain a professional career portfolio?
- What professional resources help maintain a career portfolio and a digital résumé?
- How are career portfolios assessed?