Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio

Create. Share. Engage.

Mike Joiner-Hill, MSW, is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education - Humanities & Sciences, in Stanford Career Education and works in the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab alongside Helen L. Chen. In his interview, Mike explains why a portfolio is a useful way to represent yourself when thinking about your career. He also looks far into the future and predicts a new kind of portfolio.
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Resources

• Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University
• Sheetal J. Patel and Helen L. Chen's workshop 'Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in Student Showcase ePortfolios'
• Helen L. Chen's podcast episode 'Reflect through conversation to tell your story'

Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. How did you get into career education? (00:02:06)

3. When did you start using portfolios? (00:06:35)

4. What do you do at the ILPL? (00:09:29)

5. How much do I share in an employability portfolio? (00:13:12)

6. What do employers think? (00:15:58)

7. Who's coming to the ILPL? (00:17:58)

8. Do you support staff in the ILPL? (00:19:44)

9. Be bold (00:21:20)

10. Observations about portfolios in the context of career education (00:24:45)

11. What can't you yet fully do with portfolios? (00:26:35)

12. Q&A: Three words / phrases to describe portfolio work (00:30:46)

13. Q&A: A tip for educators (00:32:03)

14. Q&A: A tip for portfolio authors (00:32:48)