Showing posts with label alumni services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alumni services. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

High School and GED (Online) Alumni Portfolios and Job Boards

High schools and programs that offer high school equivalency and/or GED programs should also have online platforms that would permit students to create profiles that would include resumes and portfolios and/or enable students to link to their personal websites that would exhibit their resumes and best school projects, for the purpose of collegiate recruitment and/or employment...

A platform of the sort could enable students to upload documents in elementary, middle, and high school, though they would only publish their very best work in their actual portfolios, which would hinge upon students’ high school and/or prospective collegiate majors while each item included in a published portfolio would ultimately require review and approval by designated high school faculty...

Portfolios could consist of essays and other writings, videos (for students interested in acting or singing, etc.), drawings (for students interested in becoming artists, fashion designers, architects, etc.), photographs (for students interested in becoming models or who have created clothing that they’ve designed), et cetera, et cetera.

An initiative of this sort would give high school and GED graduates a better compass for career paths by allowing them and collegiate/employment recruiters to better see what their strengths are, for the purpose of cultivating those skills and magnifying them to prospective employers...

College/Tech School Grads Should Primarily Utilize their Collegiate/Tech School Job Boards

College and technical school graduates should primarily utilize their collegiate and technical school job boards to locate employment. Graduates should be perpetually privileged to their alumni job boards, which would exclusively include jobs requiring college and technical degrees, and which should encompass local, national, and international job prospects...

Students should also be capable of uploading and/or linking to their professional resumes/graduation portfolios or websites on their alumni job boards, and opting to make their profiles that would include these elements viewable to specified or all local, national, and/or international employment recruiters.

Colleges/universities and tech schools and their students could incorporate the additional features into their existent online job boards and/or create school/student accounts on a major website that would be designed for this purpose.

If and when what I am here prescribing is actually realized or implemented, grads should be capable of creating and/or updating their profiles on their alumni job boards and indefinitely utilizing the sites to conduct employment/career searches whenever they are in need of employment or desire to explore other employment options.