Collecting evidence of skills

How do you present information on your personal interests or hobbies when you are looking at making it into a job or attempting to volunteer in a certain type of workplace or industry?

Do you have copies of things that you’ve made before? Can you put them into a folder or album and date the sequence to show how you have improved and how much time you spend on things? Do you keep lists of places that you’ve been to and things that you’ve seen or people that you’ve interacted with that relate to the type of job that you would like to apply for? What did you learn in those places? It might be that you can take photographs of yourself and what you were doing there as a way of keeping a record of what happened so that others can see the details. If you are unable to write the information down having others write small notes about what happened can be helpful to include. Taking video of yourself engaging and interacting with the activities or with others where possible with permission.

Sequencing this information together over a long period of time can demonstrate to others your focus, the depth of your interest and the types of areas that you might be able to discuss more easily when someone else knows the topics to cover during an interview / skill assessment because they can ‘visually see’ your portfolio of work in front of them. If you like to cook, taking photographs of the meals that have been made, sequences of steps for how tidy you can be is helpful.

As parents this information can be easily stored on an iPad with seperate folders for different areas of skills so that you can quickly flip through each of the different areas of content in front of new service providers so that you can show them the depth of skill so that they can more easily match your loved ones skills to their work place provider training programmes and options.