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Professional Profile • is a self-assessment document that summaries your skills, values, interests, personality traits and other necessary background information. • The purpose is to have everything you have discovered from self-assessment on one page as a future reference tool. • This will give you more clarity in career decisionmaking. 3/9/2021 2

Professional Portfolio • a purposeful compilation of one’s work. • an e. Portfolio is similar in content but materials are in digital format. • documentation of events or products you have designed, organized, and worked on: o Sketches – design idea development o Drawings - a set of prints and/or originals, CAD drawings, etc. . o Anything else about you, as a demonstration of your design abilities and experiences. 3/9/2021 3

Working Portfolios • A “work in progress” portfolio • It serves as a holding tank for work that may be selected later for a more permanent assessment or display portfolio 3/9/2021 4

Design Portfolio • used to show stages in the development of one particular design project. • may include initial ideas for a piece, background research or short sketches, multiple rough drafts with comments and changes, and a final draft. • a collection of work, usually accompanied by commentary that explains the purpose of the collection and the reason for including particular items. 3/9/2021 5

Showcase Portfolio • A showcase portfolio is simply a portfolio used to show one's best work. Items are selected to represent one's highest level of achievement in regard to particular knowledge or skills. The traditional artist's portfolio is an example. Portfolios created for a job interview would also fall into this category. 3/9/2021 6