I attending the workshop on Thursday at 1 pm in the library. During the discuss ways of presenting ourselves in different ways. First thing they asked us to do was to google our names and see what you find. Of course there were millions of Jacqueline Etienne. I didn’t not find myself personally, but the point of us searching our name was to see the information that comes up when someone tries to look you up. So basically you need to have control on what you have out there. For an example if you’re going for a job interview and the interview went well, If the director decided to looking you up and your Facebook profile is public and you have outrageous status like “late for work again or this hang over is killing me”. Some people a lot of drunk picture even though it’s your personal life it doesn’t look good in the company eye.
So creating a E-portfolio will be very beneficial for you in your career and professional life. It’s information on your profile will be positively created by you, which will appear on the internet world. The E-portfolio is a part of OpenLab you can customize with different categories like a regular website that you will have created but it’s free. You can had a pictures,art gallery,job resume or add a link to your resume, you can add a short biographies and your education. In the work shop he showed us example of different E- portfolio depending on the person major/ career. During the workshop I created a E- Portfolio I must say it will be very important to have one this being my last semester and I’ve been sending out resumes for the last month. I feel having a E-Portfolio will be great for my professional career in the future.
