IPP + Career portfolio

• Electronic career portfolio


  Deliberate collection of work which demonstrates a person's skills, experience, education, training, growth and career goals
• Purpose of an electronic career portfolio

  • Allows the employer to access relevant examples of your accomplishments easily
  • Supplement to the traditional resume and cover letter
  • Provides real examples of your work
  • Employers can gain a greater understanding of you and the work you are capable of doing
  • Additional tool for managing the different stages of their career life cycle
• Ways to develop or refine your electronic Career Portfolio

  • Achievements
  • Samples
  • Goals
  • Comprehensive evidence
  • Professional advice
• Achievements


  Regularly update the record of successes and/or improvements in a range of areas
• Samples


  A compilation of relevant and up-to-date work samples and documents gathered and presented in a structured manner
• Goals


  An individual's aims, achievements, progress and competencies, which should be presented in an organised, accessible and purposeful format and updated to reflect career developments in a way that doesn't overwhelm prospective employers
• Comprehensive evidence


  • cover sheet
  • passport size photograph of the individual
  • resume or CV
  • best samples of your schoolwork from all areas
  • copies of birth and/or citizenship certificate
  • copies of school reports
  • certificates of achievement (from school and extracurricular)
  • references (school, character, employer)
  • awards
• Professional advice


  An electronic career portfolio may be developed and/or refined with the assistance of relevant professionals, HR/careers advisers and/or graphic designers, who may be able to ensure that the presentation of the portfolio stays on trend and that the details included remain relevant
• IPP (Individual Pathways Plan)


  An ongoing process by which one defines, explores, and then refines their interests and goals throughout their school and work life
• Elements of an IPP

  • Outlines current career options
  • States current curriculum plan
  • Lists current goals linked to personal management, learning and work exploration, career building
  • Outlines career competencies and what will be focused on in the short and long-term
  • Outlines an action plan related to achieving goals
  • Outlines affirmative elements
• Refining an IPP at a later point in life

  • Refinement can relate to all elements of the plan, but is particularly relevant to goals, action plan and alternative strategies as these change over a lifetime
  • Values, interests and personality may or may not change but may be more important at different stages of life
  • Need to adapt or evolve to different stages of life e.g. work experiences may change you