Best Practices in Employment Management

Timeline based, career portolfios will be the future resume, used by employers to screen employees. Maintaining the details and artifacts of your education, training, experience and accomplishments, paint a much clearer and genuine picture of who you are.

So what types of events should I be including in my professional portfolio.... along with what documentation?

Here is a list to consider :

- Educational events (attachments might include diplomas, transcripts or a class syllabus)

- Training/seminar events (attachments might include certificates, course outlines and/or advertising material for the event)

- Employment events (attachments might include offer or resignation letters, performance reviews, emails noting a promotion or merit increase)

- Accomplishments (attachments could be wide and varied, but consider pdfs, jpgs, spreadsheets, emails, letters, videos, etc)

The best way to maintain a career portfolio is 1 event at a time. Try to look back every week, and ask yourself "What happened this week that might add value to my career" and document it while you remember!!!! As you come across old events, upload the digital files or scan the hardcopy documents.

This is the proof of your achievements and accomplishments that you can never find when you need it.