Soft and Business Acumen Skills 7 – Portfolio Stories

Discover culture fit and improve your CV portfolio

What will I learn?

A portfolio isn’t just for an artist, designer or investor. Creating a career portfolio means you control how you set up and grow your career goals over a career lifetime. Things like gathering evidence to support your success and creating winning communication materials like resumes, CVs, case studies and presentations.

Why do you need a career portfolio? It means you have valuable information and communication tools about your career, which you can adapt and use ready for a new job, performance assessment or promotion.

Lesson plan

  • Introduction
  • The Backdrop
  • Story-telling
  • Documentation
  • End Note
Number of lessons
3
Duration
Approx : 3 hours
Category
Communication skills
Certificate issued
Yes

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Masterclass overview

What is different about today’s job challenge?

In today’s career rollercoaster ride, you will need to be more flexible, prepared to change roles, even job type, and gain a broader skill set and work experiences. You will ascertain how to set up a career portfolio containing winning CVs, cover letters, case studies, presentations and a sales pitch which you can grow overtime. 

Why is it important to have a portfolio?

You will discover how to set out your materials and the best descriptive language to use when marketing yourself, understand how to gather essential elements for having information at your fingers tips to put yourself in the best position whether that be to get that job, a promotion or to change jobs.

What will you achieve at the end of this Masterclass?

Both the 4th Industrial and Agricultural revolutions are upon us with much technology driven transformation. Now being accelerated due to the pandemic. They pose a huge challenge to the world of work going forward. 

This class examines how you  match your abilities and skills with industries and working environments. You will learn how to use story-telling for your key communication with prospective employers. Plus the best way to prepare and use key documentation including CVs, emails and cover letters.

How will you measure success?

  • Find out how to use story-telling for effective communication.
  • Learn to match your skills to industries and workplace settings.
  • Speak about yourself using descriptive language.
  • Apply the essential elements to cover letters and CVs.
  • Design a personalised portfolio of key documentation.
  • Explore any training and development gaps in your CV.
  • Recognise how to make your CV give a quick but lasting impression.
  • Understand job descriptions and how to apply these to your CV.

Who benefits from this Masterclass?

We designed this masterclass for anyone keen on improving their communication skills. You may be a school-leaver, apprentice, student, graduate, in a job that would advance from enhanced intrapersonal and interpersonal communication or an entrepreneur who is dealing with change.

How will you manage your motivation?

You study at your convenience at your own pace. As you move through the class lessons, be inspired to complete each lesson by monitoring the progress tracker to oversee your class achievement. 

Your e-workbook includes all assignments, information, instructions, tasks and further reading contained in one place. Plus with each lesson being a video, you get to study in an easy and consistent manner. Complete your study of the class material to obtain your certificate.

You decide on the best learning approach which works for you. Select from On-Demand or Live Tutor.

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