September 26, 2024

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The Value Add of Professional Portfolios

by Christine Olsen, MBA, CPCC, CPRW, Senior Career Coach, JVS Careers

What is a Professional Portfolio?

It is a collection of career-relevant materials that provides a comprehensive view of your experiences and demonstrates your knowledge, skills, abilities, and achievements. This includes your resume, work samples, certificates, awards, testimonials, and other items that support your mission, brand, and professional capabilities. Traditionally, professionals compiled career-related work in physical portfolios, often organized in tabbed binders. While effective, paper portfolios are cumbersome to carry, difficult to update, and static in presentation. The transition to digital portfolios reflects current job search trends.

What are the Benefits of a Digital Portfolio? 

Digital professional portfolios are portable, accessible, and easy to update in real time. Instead of lugging around binders or creating hard-copy mini folders of documents, professionals can now present their work on a laptop, tablet, or share it online with just a link. This flexibility helps keep content current, makes it easy to share with broader audiences, and enhances visibility in the job market. Digital content is more vivid, and using multimedia elements such as videos, presentations, or interactive features makes the story even more engaging. For job seekers, posting your portfolio on LinkedIn or your personal website increases your discoverability by recruiters and hiring managers.

Telling Your Professional Story

Whichever portfolio type you choose, you can still tell your story in a compelling way. Whether it’s a challenge you faced and overcame or a mistake that provided valuable insights on how you’ve improved and how you’d approach problems differently today, each project in your portfolio provides evidence of your capabilities.

The process of gathering, creating, and maintaining information not only prepares you for interviews and networking conversations but also serves as a powerful personal reminder of your talents. This can be both encouraging and confidence-building.

Generating Credibility and Visualizing Success

A major benefit of a professional portfolio is the credibility it builds. Potential employers will see you as a serious candidate, be able to hear about and see your work, understand your capabilities, and visualize what it would be like to collaborate with you. This is especially true with digital portfolios which can incorporate real-time updates, metrics, and feedback to show the impact of your work. By visually presenting while discussing your successes, employers can better connect with your achievements and feel confident in your abilities. 

In Conclusion

A Professional Portfolio is a powerful tool to have ready to showcase your work, growth, and highlight career accomplishments. A well-prepared portfolio can make all the difference in securing an interview, job offer, promotion, or updating new management of past projects and achievements.

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio is pleased to share that Brian Pokrywka, Senior Counsel at Duke Energy, was recently elected to its Board of Directors.

The Greater Cincinnati Nonprofit News is accepting 2024 Sponsorships. Learn more here and contact us to schedule a discovery call.

Valley Interfaith Community Resource Center is pleased to announce that we raised over $500,000 at our 2nd Annual Planting Seeds Awards Dinner. Thank you to our Award recipients and guests. 

Impact 100 Cincinnati announced four local nonprofits who each received a $100,000 grant for innovative community projects, and three finalists received awards of $10,000 each. The following organizations attained the highest rankings via member ballots and were announced at Impact 100’s 2024 Annual Awards Celebration on Sept. 19 at Cincinnati Music Hall: Cornerstone Renter Equity, Last Mile Food Rescue, CityLink Center, and UpSpring.

Family Nurturing Center is grateful to receive a gift of $30,000 from the Charles H. Dater Foundation to support our Kids on the Block program. This program is proven to be effective in giving children the skills they need to recognize and report child abuse.

Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI) is pleased to announce that Teri Shirk, President/CEO is soon to be honored at the Girl Scouts' She Leads: A Celebration of Changemakers event.

Valley Interfaith Community Resource Center is pleased to announce and report our appreciation to: Brod Family for $41,000 gift, Hamilton a county CDBG award of $68,000, The Warmbier Family for $50,000 and the Briggs Family for $25,000 towards our comprehensive campaign. 

Springer is proud to announce a transformative $11 million donation, the largest in its history, generously pledged by Harry and Linda Fath in honor of their late daughter, Lisa Fath Ray. This extraordinary gift is dedicated exclusively to student scholarships, greatly enhancing Springer’s ability to deliver direct, multi-sensory instruction to students who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial barriers.

The Giving Voice Foundation is thrilled to announce its eighth annual Cincy Brews for Brains fundraising event was a great success, raising $26,830 for programs that support local older adults living with Alzheimer’s and dementia and their caregivers, edging nearly $120,000 raised through this event since it began in 2017.

Graeter’s Ice Cream has again partnered with The Cure Starts Now completing the annual Cones for the Cure campaign – an 11-day event that offers guests a unique way to support The Cure Starts Now and pediatric brain cancer research. This record-breaking year, Graeter’s will donate $290,000 all thanks to guest support, company donations, and ice cream sales of the seasonal favorite, Elena’s Blueberry Pie ice cream.

Community Matters is excited to celebrate its 10th anniversary this year and reflect on the impact of our work in the Lower Price Hill neighborhood over the past decade. You’re invited to celebrate with us! Save the date Saturday, November 16; 6pm-9pm and join us as we welcome all those who have supported our community over the years.

bi3 and Interact for Health received the 2024 Philanthropy Innovation Award on September 24 at Philanthropy Ohio’s Philanthropy Forward ’24 conference. Presented annually by Philanthropy Ohio, the award recognizes a funder who has moved philanthropy forward through an implemented idea or innovation. bi3 and Interact for Health, have convened extensive cross-sector partnerships to build healthier and stronger communities through Hopeful Empowered Youth (HEY!).

The artists, makers, and businesses of Camp Washington will open their doors for the annual neighborhood celebration, Made In Camp, October 12, noon to 4:30pm with after-party activities from 4:30pm-8:00pm. Made In Camp is sponsored by the American Sign Museum, Binski’s Bar, Camp Washington Urban Revitalization Corp. (CWURC), Wave Pool, and The Well. The event showcases the neighborhood’s unique character where the arts meet industry.





Millstone Fund supports the Greater Cincinnati community in the areas of Health, Education, and Arts. With a strong focus on supporting the mental health of our community, Millstone Fund is currently accepting LOI’s until October 1^st for their next round of funding. To learn more about Millstone Fund’s priority areas, grant types, eligibility requirements, and application process, visit their website.

Zonta Club of Cincinnati is now accepting grant applications for the Fall of 2024. Grants are awarded in the range of $500 - $2,000. Grant dollars will be distributed on December 1, 2024. All grant applications are due no later than October 1, 2024. Any applications received after that date will be held for the Spring of 2025.

GiveCamp is a weekend-long event (October 11-13) where software developers, designers, database administrators, project managers and creative professionals donate their time to create software and web-based applications for non-profit organizations. The first step is to apply here. 



Please join us Thursday, October 10 from 4p-6pm at DeanDorton, 810 Wright's Summit Parkway, Fort Wright, KY, as we partner with Greater Cincinnati Nonprofit News, Manley Burke, Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky, and Covington Business Council to offer a happy hour exclusively for people in the nonprofit sector. Register here.

Starfire invites you to a day of learning around the values, examples, and lessons of Citizen Advocacy. The Road to Relationships: Traveling the Path of Connection, Affection and Protection, October 26, 2024, 9:00am - 3:00pm, expertly facilitated by Tom Kohler, who brings over 40 years of experience in Citizen Advocacy, will help us consider ways we might connect more deeply with people around us. Discover strategies for creating more connected communities and building inclusive lives for people with disabilities. Find more information and registration here. 



CityLink volunteers add compassion and capacity to our mission work. Together we can grow in community, character, and hope. Our volunteers share their time and talent to support our clients along their journey towards life change. With over 10 teams, a variety of serving times, and no minimum time requirement, chances are there’s something perfect for you. We’d love to have you join our team of volunteers. 

Promoting nonprofits in a screen-saturated world The original promise of the digital age for everyone was that it would democratize access to knowledge and information. To a large extent, it’s done that, but there’s been a cost.

5 tips for eliminating big egos at work Here are five strategies for releasing your sense of self-importance and leading with less ego.

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