1. Career Portfolio
Manitoba
Community-based ePortfolio for Adult
Employability
MPLAN Spring Symposium
May 2012
Don Presant

2. Career Portfolio Manitoba
Provincewide solution for adults in transition
• Based on Essential Skills
– Not a straitjacket – customizable focus for
employability
wem.mb.ca
• User friendly
– For individuals and employers
– Can be “simple and easy” or “rich and deep”
• Learner owned wplar.ca
– Lifelong, lifewide
• Well supported
– Hands-on course, exemplars, video tutorials, user support
• Open source and global:
– Flexibility & sustainable continuous improvement

3. Employment & related purposes
Demonstrate, assess & improve Human Capital
• Qualification Recognition
– Initial, formative, summative assessment
• Academic recognition
– PLAR/RPL for courses and programs )
• Career Development
– Gap analysis, exploration of alternatives, building pathways
• Employment (Web CV)
– Hiring, career advancement, team building tool for employers
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
– Tracking ongoing learning activities and reflection on practice
– Recertification

4. Personal Planning and Learning
Online Locker, Interactive Workbook
• Online archive
– Personal & downloaded documents
– Links to useful websites
• Resources for self-directed learning
– Webinars, videos, self-assessment surveys
• Learning plans and tracking tools
– Set goals and track progress to them (Learning Plans)
– Keep records of learning activities over time (CPD)
• Personal journal
– Reflect on goals and alternative futures
– Keep ad hoc “notes to self”, prepare agendas, etc.
• Ongoing Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

5. ePortfolio & industry-based PLAR
Small “r” recognition
• A workforce development strategy based on:
– Recognizing learning regardless of where it was acquired
– Actively seeking evidence of learning in individuals to
enhance their opportunities
• Specific applications:
– Recruitment
– Process/role/workstation qualification, team building
– Training needs identification
– Internal promotion
– Regulatory and certification compliance
– Performance management
– Talent management, succession planning

6. Implementation
Online tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)

7. Benefits for adults in transition
“Career companion”
• Self-assessment, personal reflection
• “Digital evidence bank” to support
professional goals and consideration of
alternative goals
• Personal space for learning and building
knowledge
• Develop communication skills, ICT skills
• Build business network, personal “brand”

8. Benefits for unengaged employers
Electronic recruitment tool
• Scaffolded solution for the Manitoba workplace
– Works with LinkedIn, job boards & other solutions
already used for electronic recruitment
– Candidate evaluation can begin overseas
• Professional Page = quick, easy dashboard
– Links to further detail and downloadable resume
• Deeper, richer “Web CV” rewards closer study
– More complete picture of the candidate
– Authentic demonstrations of skills and knowledge
• Job Match Summary simplifies assessment
– Rubric aligns with employer’s original job description

9. Benefits for engaged employers
Recruitment and beyond
• eSourcing/eRecruitment tools
– Résumé Importing/Exporting/Searching
– Assessments & Applicant Screening
– Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• Human Resource Management Systems
(HRMS/HRIS)
• Onboarding (orientation) tools
• Talent Development
• Performance Management
• Workforce Adjustment

10. Don Presant
don@learningagents.ca
Twitter: donpresant
Skype: dpresant
bit.ly/CPMB_MPLAN2012