Career Readiness Portfolio Editable

About this resource

A work sample, a supervisor's note, a student's own words on a goal — most of it gets made, then lost, because there is nowhere for a student to keep it that a post-secondary program, a vocational agency, or an employer could actually read. This is that place: a student-facing portfolio that collects the evidence as it happens, lets the student reflect on it in their own words, and rolls the whole year up into a system a student can hand over or present at a meeting — set up once, filled all year, and built to drop straight into a binder.

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 24 pages, 13 working forms, a binder organizer set, and a filled example

• A portfolio cover sheet: career interests, three top strengths, one sentence about me, jobs I want to try, what helps me do my best work, and who I want to show this to
• A detailed work experience record (one page per job): tasks, supervisor feedback, what I learned, what I would do differently
• A work experience log (14 rows) — every job at a glance: employer, dates, hours, main task, whether a reference was collected
• A work sample record (11 rows) for describing a real artifact, photo, or object, the skill it shows, and evidence of growth compared to an earlier piece
• A skill-demonstration log (9 rows) with a three-way support-level mark (Independent / with a Cue / Direct Help) plus a 10-skill career-readiness reference list
• A strength card: 8 write-in prompts in the student's own words (what I'm good at, what I learned, my goals, a compliment, a proud moment, and more)
• A post-secondary goal statement across 4 areas — education or training, work, independent living, and the support the student thinks they will need — in the student's own words, not a plan the team is bound to
• Student reflection prompts (6 prompts)
• A portfolio summary and skills roll-up across 6 skill categories, counted straight from the skill log
• A binder organizer set: a printable binder cover, 4 spine labels (one per grading period), and 10 divider tabs (8 already labeled to match this file, 2 left blank for your own section)
• An employer and reference-letter organizer: a short page a supervisor can fill out directly, plus a 6-row tracker for reference letters requested and received
• A meeting-presentation outline: 7 talking points in order, plus a 3-row rehearsal log
• A family and team update, ready to send, with room for questions back
• A phrase bank: 26 starters across 4 groups (work-sample reflection, observable skill-log language, describing growth, presentation and goal talk)
• A filled example — an invented student, two jobs, six skill entries, every roll-up count re-added from its own rows
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the tables and prompts, or print and use a pen. The binder cover, spine labels and divider tabs print like any other page and are meant to be cut apart. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it does not grade, score, or set a mastery or eligibility rule for any student.

The support-level mark (Independent / with a Cue / Direct Help) describes what was seen on ONE job or task — never a rule about the student. This is the student's own portfolio: an adult may write for a student who asks, but the words stay the student's. Nothing here states an age or grade as a rule, states a diagnosis, or gives legal or clinical guidance; your district's own rule for when this portfolio is reviewed gets a blank line to write it on.

Who This Is For

Case managers and transition coordinators building a presentable, student-facing portfolio for secondary students working toward post-secondary programs, vocational-rehabilitation agencies, or employment — alongside the store's own case-manager-facing Transition, Employment and Postsecondary Data Sheets, which track the same jobs from the adult's side of the caseload.

More In The Collection

Part of the Transition Planning Sheets collection; new products in this collection are added regularly.