E-Portfolios

Hello everyone,

There has been a lot of speculation about the overall importance of portfolios and their effectiveness during job interviews. Many committees and employers during interviews often do not bother to ask or look at the interviewee's  portfolio. The applicant then carries a large 2 inch binder full of samples of work and places it under their chair never to be seen from. These portfolios are often dangerous to applicants as their lack of organization can cause the interview to falter and result in the loss of a job. I always thought that the interviewers expected to see a hard copy of your portfolio, but it seems that it is not always the case.

An E-Portfolio is a great way for you to be able to connect your portfolio to your resume without having to drag a huge binder around to every interview. The portfolio can be created online using any template based website such as Weebly. People can use their creativity and produce an online version of their portfolio including, their certificates, professional development, pictures, work experiences, volunteer work and so on. When you send your application and resume into the selection committee, you can place the link to your E-Portfolio on the resume and the committee can choose whether or not to click on the link. It is more likely that they will view it when posted on a resume than asking to see it during an interview.

The one problem that I might have with creating an E-Portfolio, is that there is a large amount of private and personal information that could be included in the portfolio and I am not sure whether I would be comfortable with it being open to the public. However, I could get around this by creating it to be a private site that one would need a password for and I would give the password to the employer. Another way that I could make a portfolio would be to use a PowerPoint system. However, using PowerPoint is sometimes less neat than using a website and it can be more complicated to operate a PowerPoint. The last thing that you want to do is make it hard for the employer to navigate through information. That's one way not to get a job!

I guess i'll just have to think about it for a while
Anyways, that's all for now,

Jordan