Hartwick college

Your career portfolio might include some of the following items:

• Actual items created through a class project (budgets, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, etc.)
• Agendas from committees you participated on
• Attendance records
• Brochures describing training events, retreats, workshops, clinics, lecture series attended
• Budgets you managed responsibly in organizations, clubs
• Commendations or evaluations from student work-study and campus jobs, internships, summer jobs, service learning projects
• Communication pieces (memos, reports, PR documents)
• Community service projects/involvement highlights
• Creative work (when relevant)
• Detailed job descriptions
• Documentation of leadership experience—What did you do? What did you learn?
• Evidence of academic honors/awards
• Evidence of certifications/special training
• Evidence of language skills
• Examples from virtual management simulations (sample marketing plan)
• Examples of problem solving
• Examples of teamwork
• Examples of technology related skills (HTML; Excel spreadsheets; PowerPoint presentations)
• Flyers, brochures, or other promotional pieces you designed
• Internship experience highlights
• Letters of commendation, thank-you letters, letters of nomination
• Letters of recommendation/references
• Newspaper articles highlighting achievements, involvements, effort
• Outline of memorable presentation to class (printout of PowerPoint presentation)
• Philosophy Statement
• Positive evaluations/feedback from customers/clients
• Printout of a web page you created
• Printouts of email, web pages, journals, memos, articles that mention you efforts
• Products showing your leadership qualities (mission statements, agendas)
• Professional Goal/Objective Statement
• Professional memberships
• Projects/Pictures of Projects
• Public speaking examples/highlights
• Report on a topic of special interest
• Resume
• Samples of academic excellence illustrating the capacity for hard work and independent learning.
• Slides of pictures of art work
• Sporting awards
• Summary of involvement/highlights from participation in Professional
• Organizations, Campus Activities
• Summary of thesis work, research
• Table of Contents
• Transcripts
• Work experience (volunteer & paid) highlights
• Works published
• Writing samples