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PD Kit Humans are the ultimate, portable collection, possessing an adaptable and everexpanding portfolio of talents and potential. These are the very qualities which help them to snatch up opportunity in the midst of today’s fickle labor (sic) market. …a portfolio may be the perfect vehicle for helping students, clients, and ourselves navigate in these uncertain times. Martin Kimeldorf 3.10.1 Using Portfolios with Adult Clients The formats for portfolios used with adult clients vary widely and the applications can often overlap. However, in this context, career portfolios can be a valuable tool for: • career and transition planning • job search • employee skills assessment and performance development • demonstrating mastery of the Blueprint career competencies. For Career and Transition Planning The portfolio is a useful tool for managing career transitions. It can support adults moving from post-secondary education to the workplace, or those returning to the workplace after a career break. It is also a particularly important tool for those faced with involuntary career change. The process of compiling a portfolio enables self-discovery and selfevaluation and assists the learner to identify the transferable skills that they can use in the world of work. The portfolio itself offers individuals a place to store information about themselves which will help them to identify their skills and interests and to make career decisions and plans. As individuals change and grow, they can add new information to their portfolios – about themselves, about the world of work, and about their life, learning and work goals. If used consistently and thoughtfully, the career planning portfolio can evolve into a dynamic career management tool that individuals use over a lifetime to help them make successful transitions. For adults caught in career transition, either voluntarily or involuntarily, the portfolio offers an organisational tool and a process to help them make good decisions about their future. Nancy Perry 30 AUSTRALIAN BLUEPRINT FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT – ADULTS PD KIT
PD Kit For Job Search The use of the career portfolio for obtaining work is becoming increasingly common. A job search portfolio is a marketing and self-promotional tool for individuals to use in interviews or for the self-employed to present to prospective clients. The evolution from the resume as a stand-alone self-marketing tool to the resume as part of the career portfolio parallels the change from permanent secure jobs to more temporary forms of work. The career portfolio becomes an essential tool to support the resume, as employers become more interested in evidence of the skills that prospective employees have, rather than relying on academic qualifications or what their experience has been in the past. The only job security that workers can count on in today’s economy is the transportability of their own skills. Skills security is replacing job security, and the portfolio represents concrete proof of a worker’s skills package. This package of skills may have been developed through volunteer jobs, hobbies, parenting, and other learning experiences. It is important, however, to realise that the portfolio does not replace the resume, which is still a commonly used tool in recruiting. For Employee Skills Assessment and Professional Development In this changing world of work, companies are increasingly shifting away from job titles and job descriptions towards team-based projects and outcomes. As a result, the way the performance of employees is evaluated is changing. In performance appraisals, employers are now evaluating employees on the basis of their accomplishments and outcomes, rather than simply on the time they have put in to a job. In this new work environment, the portfolio becomes an essential tool for employees to demonstrate how well they have performed during the year, what skills they have developed, and what professional development they have undertaken. Employers can use the process to help workers to set goals, evaluate performance and identify further training requirements. For employees, the portfolio offers an opportunity to track their skill development, set career and educational goals and think productively about their future in the industry. For Demonstrating Mastery of the Blueprint Career Competencies The portfolio process provides an excellent vehicle for integrating the Blueprint career competencies into career development practice. Portfolio samples can also become a talking point for practitioners and learners to discuss the career competencies and performance indicators, and how they relate to a learner’s particular career story. In the same way that individuals need to develop skills literacy, they also need to learn about the skills required to develop and manage their life, learning and work successfully. Appreciating their own specific career management competencies and being able to identify the ways in which they are able to be demonstrated is important self-knowledge for individuals. You may find the checklists provided at Appendix C and Appendix D useful for this purpose. AUSTRALIAN BLUEPRINT FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT – ADULTS PD KIT 31
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