examples of career efolios
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Employers managing a changing and diverse workforce use Avenet efolioTM to efficiently manage human capital, assess workforce skills, and facilitate employee training and development. Employees and job-seekers use efolios to manage and advance their careers and ongoing training and education.
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Work singly or in pairs to create a rhetorically effective career eFolio for a composite job-seeker. We'll start with the framework suggested by eFolio and adapt it to suit the nature and direction of our composite. We'll take some time to look at the eFolio templates and to sketch out a job seeker, drawing on shared background.
We initially saw a difference in how identity is presented in print - by means of letters of introduction and print resumes - and what we've seen on eFolio.
- what was mentioned
- what wouldn't be mentioned in print
- use and selection of images
- how the eFolio was decorated (Stars and Stripes).
- ...
We also noticed that efolio-makers
- tend to write informally, inviting visitors to peruse their materials (casually? too casually?),
- tend to focus the writing on using the site
- use the text to shape how the reader interprets the material
- ...
Before you draft a section / page, have a look at how others have handled the situation. In each case, start with some examples to see how others do it, then respond.
Decisions to be made in class
- template
- which categories to use intially
- images
- who does what
Sketch of job seeker
- Jamie Johnson
- year after graduation - 23 yrs
- English and Communication, BA. 2005
- BSU graduate. 3.2 2 final semesters on Dean's list
- internship -local newspaper copyeditor
- worked for NS
- massive student loans
- looking in area of communications, marketing, publishing, ...
- volunteer - American Red Cross Annual Blood Drive, H
- campus activities - HUPB, Philosophy Club
- interests - philosophy, cooking, jogging
- work experience - on-campus summer day camp, summer before jr and senior years
Consider: design
- selecting the template
- category titles (left nav bar)
- category subheads
- use of sidebar
- arrangement
- suggesting a reading order
- creating reading paths
- images, sound, video: to what end? example? illustration?
- visual accents
- ...
Consider: text
- reader role: what role do you cast the reader in? what do you provide to allow the reader to play that role?
- working within the template
- length of pages
- use of lists
- sentence structure and punctuation: rhetorical or structural
- terminology and level of formality
- how to address visitors (Welcome to my efolio! or another approach)
- what to mention - what to leave out
- level of formality. We've been noting a tension between the expected level of formality of a print letter of introduction and the apparent informality we've seen on eFolio.
- web style: call attention to web style (Hey! Check out my folio!) or adapt prose to reading without calling attention to it
- contextual links
- when to link out - and what to link to - link text
- placeholder text: do you include "I'm working on this part..." before it's ready.
- when to link to documents; when to include/adapt text to folio
- visual accent, illustrations, illuminations
- ...
The Larger Issues
to do: a consideration of how the structure of the folio, the templates, the choices suggested by the media of the web influence rhetorical choices by writers and assessment by readers.
- changes in rhetorical stance: changes accommodated by the medium, changes fostered by the medium, changes fostered by the rhetorical situation and conventions of the medium; changes fostered / expected by the hype of the tool.
- comparisons with PowerPoint shaping presentations.
- suitability of documents created for courses and other situations to the career folio. Some career folios link to work written for other rhetorical situations and contexts.
After the fact: Some considerations
Main issues we saw with other portfolios
What we did instead - and why.
Recommendations to portfolio creators