A portfolio allows you a visual and tangible way to represent your credentials, skills and achievements.
Port means that a person s credentials are portable, transportable, convenient, and manageable.
They provide an image or picture of ones experience, interests, achievements, goals and capabilities. Folio means a packaging of one s credentials through photographs, reproduced evidence, work samples, videos, audio, and other formats. A career portfolio is an organized evidence of your work background, readiness for the job and specific job skills that make you qualified for the job for which you are applying. Remember, this is supporting evidence of why you are the best candidate for the job, so be sure to show the skills employers seeking. The portfolio allows you a visual tool to highlight the skills employers are seeking.