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Question: For your final discussion together, you will craft elements of a professional profile you can use in your career-building tool kit. For some of you, this will add to what you already have; for others, this will be a new effort or help launch a second (or third!) career. Wherever you may be on your career journey, building a portfolio is an excellent way to track your progress and demonstrate your skills to potential organizations, employers, stakeholders, and funding bodies.
You can also use elements of your professional profile in social media-consider building a page on LinkedIn and other social media outlets based on what you craft in this activity. Look at what others are also using; this is your opportunity to collaborate.
Your professional profile will change over time, and you will continue to add to it (and sometimes delete segments) as you spend more time in your career. The portfolio, especially if you house it online in social media or as a Google Doc, should be a collection of evidence showcasing your professional development, volunteer work, and successful ventures relevant to the organization you want to work with and potential funding sources and community members/stakeholders.
In this discussion, respond to the following:
Write a career summary (one paragraph). If you are still building your career, write a summary of where you hope for your career to go.
Based on your core values, write a mission statement for yourself. Include
what your career is rooted in,
what skills you bring to the work that you do (or hope to do), and
what competencies you bring to the career you have (or hope to have).
Include a brief biography that highlights elements of who you are that might add to or be interesting to learn about in your portfolio.
Add a few relevant, marketable skills.
Include an overview of any professional accomplishments you bring to the table.
Provide an overview of the professional development activities you can contribute to projects.
Include any volunteer experience you have had.
Overall, engage critically and avoid an editorial stance. Demonstrate your understanding of the week's material and include your sources from the course material or elsewhere if you do any outside research. Your initial post should be 250-500 words in length.