About Portfolios

What is a portfolio?

A portfolio is a digitised collection of artefacts, and reflections purposefully compiled to share one’s skills, achievements and reflections. In an ever challenging and competitive world a portfolio is part of your personal and professional branding.

Your portfolio should tell the story of you and your learning and professional journey. It may be linked to assessment and can also provide long-term storage for your work and accomplishments leading to employability advantages.

Creation of a portfolio requires some technology mastery to digitize artefacts and design the online resource. It also involves evaluation of personal beliefs, philosophies, and objectives and sharing these in clear, informative and productive ways. The actual contents of a portfolio will depend on you.

The resources below provide an overview of Portfolios and their value as part of your learning journey. Explore them to get a jump start on creating content for your portfolio.

Why Create a Portfolio?

Here are seven good reasons why portfolio creation is important. Starting a portfolio early in your degree and sustaining it through professional life is a good habit to adopt.

A Portfolio:

1. Helps you craft and present evidence-based and professional knowledge, skills and dispositions.
2. Reveals your employability through sharing carefully selected artefacts and reflections that identify skills and competencies.
3. Shares your CV.
4. Enhances your digital and online literacy which are also good employability skills.
5. Stores such items as documents, photos, videos or links that have meaning to you.
6. Supports your ‘brand of me’ customisation and personalisation and how you want to promote yourself to others.
7. Helps foster global connections and networks through sharing experiences and career development.

Watch the video below to find out more: