A career portfolio, also known as employment portfolio or skills portfolio, can be a versatile workhorse in job-search storytelling. As we’ll see in this chapter, a portfolio can help you tell your story in a number of ways:

• The simple act of creating a portfolio enables you to get to know your own stories better and develop new stories.
• An online portfolio can entice employers to contact you, in part, by presenting your success stories in an appealing manner.
• A print portfolio serves as a tangible and visual guide to describing your accomplishments in narrative form in job interviews.
• Either type of portfolio serves as a repository for all of your critical job-search materials.

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