Next Step - Start a Career Portfolio
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Starting Point = Goal of this course
The goal of this course was to lead you to a starting point on the path toward creating your own career portfolio. Understanding why you need a career portfolio, types of bio to write for your audience, then know what kind of information, digital facts, and materials to collect into organized categories or sections for presentation. You can confidently begin to construct your own career portfolio. There are many software products on the market which allow more creativity or freedom over a portfolio design such as Adobe Dreamweaver. But if you don't have the time, money, or knowledge of website construction, don't worry. There are a wide number of free, drag and drop website development as well as career portfolio specific programs such as Weebly, which was used in the creation of this course. Below are a few such starting points to consider for you to start collecting and creating your career portfolio now that you have discovered what steps are needed and know where to begin.
The goal of this course was to lead you to a starting point on the path toward creating your own career portfolio. Understanding why you need a career portfolio, types of bio to write for your audience, then know what kind of information, digital facts, and materials to collect into organized categories or sections for presentation. You can confidently begin to construct your own career portfolio. There are many software products on the market which allow more creativity or freedom over a portfolio design such as Adobe Dreamweaver. But if you don't have the time, money, or knowledge of website construction, don't worry. There are a wide number of free, drag and drop website development as well as career portfolio specific programs such as Weebly, which was used in the creation of this course. Below are a few such starting points to consider for you to start collecting and creating your career portfolio now that you have discovered what steps are needed and know where to begin.
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This course was created on Weebly, which has a large number of templates and options available to help anyone create a free career portfolio. The great feature of Weebly is the ability to link to various social media sites as well as be viewed on multiple devices. There is a wonderful tutorial to get you started at this link: http://help.weebly.com/beginners-guide.html. The website is found at :http://www.weebly.com/
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Another great starter option is to a create a single page website such as about.me which offers the basics in a quick and easy one page site which can be attached to any social media or other websites as a link.
WiX offers one page starting points as well as more complex ones which are FREE upon sign up to their site. The advantage to this method is the easy drag and drop and quick development for a starting point. There are a number of simple templates available for career portfolios.
The website is found at : http://www.wix.com/#!
An easy starting point is : One page Portfolio Template: http://www.wix.com/website-template/view/html/1050?originUrl=&bookName=create-master-sort&galleryDocIndex=1
WiX offers one page starting points as well as more complex ones which are FREE upon sign up to their site. The advantage to this method is the easy drag and drop and quick development for a starting point. There are a number of simple templates available for career portfolios.
The website is found at : http://www.wix.com/#!
An easy starting point is : One page Portfolio Template: http://www.wix.com/website-template/view/html/1050?originUrl=&bookName=create-master-sort&galleryDocIndex=1