Welcome Please standby. The Experience Webinar Online Career Portfolios is scheduled to begin at 2 p

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Welcome! Please standby. The Experience
Webinar Online Career Portfolios is
scheduled to begin at 2 pm Eastern April 24,
2008
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Online Career Portfolios

• April 24, 2008

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Agenda

• What is an Online Portfolio
• How Does It Help Students Alumni
• Schools Using Online Portfolios
• Sample Student Portfolios
• Employer Feedback
• Portfolio Demo
• Templates That You Can Use

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What is a Portfolio?

• Traditionally used by artists, architects, and
  photographers
• A collection of work samples to illustrate
  talents and skills
• Often a physical booklet brought to an interview
  for discussion and review

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What is an Online Portfolio?

• An interactive version that help students
  alumni
• record, track, present and share
• their skills, experiences and talents
• with prospective employers, networking contacts
  and graduate schools.

• Can include activities, awards, certificates,
  writing samples, evaluations, recommendation
  letters, projects, presentations, speeches etc.

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How Does an Online Portfolio Help Students
Alumni

• Remember what they accomplished
• Prepare for interviews
• Stand out to employers and/or graduate schools
  with a more in-depth professional view
• Provide good background info about themselves for
  networking
• Become more easily found by employers conducting
  searches
• Capture achievements for performance reviews

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What an Online Portfolio is NOT

• Does not replace a resume
• Can be in addition to a real physical portfolio

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Schools Using Online Portfolios
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Florida State University
Portfolio Users by Class

• Launched 2002
• 47k students using online portfolio
• Faculty outreach and buy-in ? tied into classes
• Portfolio contest
• In-house system
• http//www.career.fsu.edu/portfolio

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UCSan Diego

• Launched 2004
• 7k students using online portfolio
• Optional usage
• Encourage students to use as career developmental
  tool
• Career development classes, students marketing to
  students
• Licensed FSU system
• Demo - http//career.ucsd.edu/sa/portfolio.shtml

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Kennesaw State University

• Launched in 2003
• Use as career development tool
• Requires every freshmen to create a portfolio as
  part of their first-year experience program
• Gets freshmen involved with Career Services early
• 87 of portfolio users plan to keep using them
• In-house system

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Tips from Schools

• Effective for students alums, but need to
  convince them to make time to complete portfolios
• Best if they fill it out as they go
• Just as helpful for identifying strengths as it
  is in sharing with employers
• Try to draw a direct line between portfolios and
  job interviews

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Key Differences

• Experience portfolios only have 4 sections
  (profile, resume, experiences, references)
• Skills are tags, not a separate section that
  needs to be filled out
• Experience portfolios are searchable by employers
• Experience portfolio is available for your use as
  part of eRecruiting

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Employer Feedback
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Employer Feedback

• 44 have viewed an online portfolio (108 survey
  respondents)
• 42 would use an online portfolio when filtering
  for interviews (especially for "on-the-fence"
  candidates)
• 22 would use an online portfolio after an
  interview to learn more about the candidate

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More Employer Feedback

• Small survey of employers (survey ongoing)
• 77 said the additional information a portfolio
  offers about a candidate would be useful
• 69 think an online career portfolio can help a
  student or young professional stand out from
  other candidates
• 43 thought it would be most useful for a
  candidate to share his/her online portfolio as
  part of the application process
• 77 find it useful to be able to search online
  portfolios

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In Summary, an Online Portfolio is

• Career development tool
• A way for students alums to showcase their
  talents and experiences
• A way for students alums to be found by
  employers

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Portfolio DemoFeatures Functionality Overview
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Building, Sharing Tracking Portfolios

• Accessing Portfolio
• Is this Beta version fully functional and secure?
• Understanding Views
• Building a Portfolio
• Profile
• Resume/Career Interests
• Experiences/File upload
• References
• Help
• Creating a Shared View
• Adding templates/components
• Customizing Order
• Previewing
• Sharing
• Tracking your Shared Views

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Resources Available within University Resources
eRecruiting
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Marketing Toolbox
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Marketing Toolbox

• Two email templates Freshmen/Sophomores and
  Juniors/Seniors
• Templates are available to use either within
  eRecruiting (necessary for automatic
  username/password inclusion) or with your own
  email client (e.g., Outlook)
• Portfolio demo http//portfolio.experience.com/de
  mo

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eRecruiting Administrative View
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eRecruiting Administrative View
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eRecruiting Administrative View
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eRecruiting Administrative View
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QA
If you would like to ask a question, please
press 1 on your telephone keypad.
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