This document discusses building career portfolios for employability in Manitoba. It outlines the essential skills needed for employability, including reading, writing, numeracy, computer skills, oral communication, problem solving, and working with others. An essential skills portfolio is presented as a way to reflect on life-wide learning and build confidence. An ePortfolio allows for measuring skills, sharing content, and collaborating online. The document envisions a lifelong career development system for all Manitobans through partnerships between stakeholders. Implementation would include an online tour and adapting the curriculum to leverage the advantages of ePortfolios.

1. Career Portfolio
Manitoba
Community-based ePortfolio for Adult
Employability
July 2011

2. Web 2.0 and social media
“Publish yourself”

3. Social Media and the Job Market

4. Essential Skills for Employability
Contextualized by workplace occupation…
1. Reading text
2. Document use
3. Writing
4. Numeracy
5. Computer skills
6. Oral communication
7. Thinking skills
– Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical
Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing,
Significant Use of Memory, Finding
Information
8. Working with others
9. Continuous learning

5. 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

6. The “e” factor
Advantages 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

7. Essential Skills ePortfolio
Program overview
• Adapt the paper curriculum
• Leverage the “e” factor
• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Useful software, accessible hardware
– Digital identity literacy
• Provide ongoing support

8. Regional solutions
Inspiration for Manitoba

9. Here in Manitoba
A Guide to
Career Portfolio Manitoba Building a Career Portfolio
Step 1:
Reflecting:
Identifying my
knowledge,
skills & abilities
Step 4: Step 2:
Organizing & Portfolio Gathering
assembling evidence of
items into my Process items for my
portfolio portfolio
Step 3:
Grouping
evidence into
themes

10. Vision for Career Portfolio Manitoba
Career 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

11. Implementation
Online tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)

12. Career Portfolio Manitoba
Personal Learning Environment
Online HE Online
Mentoring Learning Credential
Services systems Verification
Employer HR
Government Management
Information Systems
Portals
Professional
Thin Localized
Bodies ePortfolio Labour Market
(CPD) Hub Information
Job Boards,
Web 2.0
Recruitment
Sites
Personal
Networks TBA

13. ePortfolio and 21st Century Learning
Assessment of/for learning
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

14. Human Capital Management
A large (and growing) sector

15. 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...