Career Portfolio Manitoba

Community-based ePortfolio for Adult Employability

July 2011

Web 2.0 and social media“Publish yourself”

Social Media and the Job Market

Essential Skills for EmployabilityContextualized by workplace occupation…1. Reading text2. Document use3. Writing4. Numeracy5. Computer skills6. Oral communication7. Thinking skills

– Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing, Significant Use of Memory, Finding Information

8. Working with others9. Continuous learning

The Essential Skills Portfolio Origins and character

• First immigrants, now “general”– Career changers (younger, older..)

• Reflection on life-wide learning of Essential Skills for employability

• Build confidence, improve “skills dialogue”– Make resumes & cover letters clearer, more credible– Preparation tool for interviews

• More than ES: attitudes, specialized skills• Product: ring binder, from electronic templates• 18 hours class time + c. 18 hours of homework

The “e” factorAdvantages and opportunities• Information Management

– Collecting, archiving, making different versions• Measurability

– Frameworks, rubrics, summative tracking• Interoperability

– Communication with other ICT systems via APIs, open standards• Sharing

– “One to many”, digital copies, links to specific pages• Multimedia

– Video, audio, digital images, online presentations…and scanned docs

• Internet skills– Online research: documents, networks, Internet literacy

• Collaboration– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach

• Personal Learning Environment– Integrated learning environment, professional network, digital identity

Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview

• Adapt the paper curriculum• Leverage the “e” factor• Embed authentic ICT skills

– Useful software, accessible hardware– Digital identity literacy

• Provide ongoing support

Regional solutionsInspiration for Manitoba

Here in Manitoba

Portfolio Process

Step 1:Reflecting:

Identifying my knowledge,

skills & abilities

Step 2:Gathering

evidence of items for my

portfolio

Step 3:Grouping

evidence into themes

Step 4:Organizing & assembling

items into my portfolio

Career Portfolio ManitobaA Guide to

Building a Career Portfolio

Vision for Career Portfolio ManitobaCareer development for life

• For all Manitobans• Learner owned• Lifelong• Lifewide: home, community, school, work...• Based on (not restricted to) Essential Skills• Built through partnerships of stakeholders, with

WEM and WPLAR as “anchor tenants”• Globally aware, locally relevant

ImplementationOnline tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)

Career Portfolio ManitobaPersonal Learning Environment

ProfessionalBodies(CPD)

OnlineCredentialVerification

Job Boards, Recruitment

Sites

PersonalNetworks

OnlineMentoringServices

LocalizedLabour Market

Information

Employer HRManagement

Systems

ThinePortfolio

Hub

Web 2.0

GovernmentInformation

Portals

HELearningsystems

TBA

ePortfolio and 21st Century LearningAssessment of/for learning

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

Human Capital Management A large (and growing) sector

Moving forward

• Shorten curriculum, customize delivery– Versions: Full/accelerated/modular

• Stream learners– Computer skills gap training– Custom streams, e.g. Winnipeg Transition Centre

• Add more exemplars– Return to work, mature worker, Aboriginal...