What is AggiE-folio?
AggiE-folio is a web-based personal and professional development
electronic portfolio that you can use as a tool to learn, grow and
track your progress while in college. It can be used as a customizable
job search tool that allows you to create custom views for possible
employers. It can also be a personal development tool to
demonstrate to your advisors the learning outcomes you have mastered. It
provides you a public or private journal, online communities associated with
classes or student organizations, and a means of documenting your Strengths for
any student participating in StrengthsQuest.
How can it help me?
AggiE-folio can help you both in the classroom and later in the job search or
graduate school preparation.
- As a freshman or sophomore, you can start collecting
examples of exemplary work to demonstrate transferable skills you are developing
in communication, leadership, problem solving, technical skills and others.
Transferable skills will be important in any job, regardless of major.
- As a junior or senior, you will continue to develop a
portfolio that demonstrates your transferable skills and those more specific to
your major. You may begin customizing different views of your portfolio and
asking professors or advisors to preview them in preparation for your job search
or graduate school admission.
- You can learn more about the core knowledge and skills that
employers look for in recent graduates.
- You can keep different versions of your résumé online for
inclusion in any portfolio.
If you are required to keep a journal as part of an internship or class,
AggiE-folio gives you a web-accessible, secure journal that is
searchable by key word or date and can be easily viewed by your instructor or
others. You control the permissions to determine who can view it and what they
see. You can organize different content for different audiences - professors,
advisors, parents, or prospective employers.
As a graduate student, you can use AggiE-folio to
collect copies of your publications, dissertation, CV, teaching philosophy
and other documents that may be needed for an academic or non-academic job
search. You can create a custom category for any document and store that
document in AggiE-folio or create a link to it on another server. You control
who sees it and you can delete or create guest views as needed.
It's easy to use! You have a professional online portfolio without having to
build a webpage to create it!
How do I get access to AggiE-folio?
Just register for your AggieLaunch membership
at any level and begin to explore the ways you can use AggiE-folio! If you have
questions about which level would be best for you, contact 845-5139 or advisor@careercenter.tamu.edu.
