The Importance of Keeping a Professional Annotated Portfolio
What I am saying here is that you should have prepared a result-oriented professional portfolio of your career that thoroughly explains and provide facts and verifications on your education, training and accomplishments. This document is actually a written documentation of your career history that gives the hiring manager or prospective employer clear view of what you can do and what you can offer the company.Â
Writing this kind of document is definitely a serious one and sometimes you still need to hire a professional career marketing professional to write yours. (Some accomplished resume writing companies like www.resumeactivewriters.com are offering outstanding professional portfolio.)But if you think you have the guts to write your own, try to consider these tips.
1.   Include documents in view of your education. Explain in your portfolio 5the accomplishments that you have gained from both formal education and continuing educations. Have a place for all those education and training stuffs like your diploma and certificate.
2.   Include any memo or copies of e-mails from your employers and colleagues mentioning your professionalism, strengths, and accomplishments. These are very important as they may provide your prospective employers with detailed information on how well you perform a given task.
3.   Any published materials? Add them. If your accomplishments were published in the company newsletter, local newspaper, trade magazine, or any other publication cut and paste them in your portfolio. These will add credibility on your part because they are viewed to be as verifiable data.
4.   Awards certificates and articles speak for a lot for you so it is very wise to incorporate them in your professional portfolio. Just make sure that these articles recognize your contributions to projects and business growth.
5.   Volunteer work will also volunteer to bring you up in the corporate ladder. While you did not receive any amount from volunteering in a charity work or foundation, you probably gained a considerable amount of experience and recognition from these experiences. Include your contribution in providing assistance, the way you solved the organizationð€™s problem and the development you have contributed in the said organization.
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6.   Know the parts. The following are the parts of a professional portfolio:
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*A title page
*A descriptive contents page
*A project description for each project (or category of projects), describing your contributions to the project and including reader/boss/coworker feedback (samples linked at bottom of page)
*Excerpts of your projects (copies or printouts of your projects)
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7. Plan it. Plan what you want to include and what you want it to look like.
8. Determine what information to highlight. Examine each project that you have accomplished, and choose details that you want to highlight. Give prime importance to what is really commendable.
Make sure that you have documented anything that you have done for you to have a career history that will help in your career advancement. If unfortunately you were not able to contact your previous employers for any reason, at least you are confident that you have something in hand that will give details and make it clear that you are really the candidate to hire. Maintaining a career portfolio is just like documenting what kind of person you are and will make you very positive that you get what you deserve.