Professional Planning Portfolio

Document 1: Personal Statement

Compose a personal statement describing your immediate and long-term career and life goals, including an explanation of why these goals are appropriate and realistic in terms of your curricular, extracurricular, professional, and personal experiences.

Document 2: Reflective Paper

You will discuss paper reflecting upon your educational experiences within your psychology program journey, using the Program Goals as an organizational paradigm. That means you will organize your paper using the Goals.

Document 3: Resume/Curriculum Vitae

Craft acurrent, accurate, and professional-appearing resume or curriculum vitae. Which you choose to present depends on your aspirations. Resumes tend to be competency-based, designed to be a marketing document that showcases your skills, achievements, and work experiences.

Document 4: Employment or Advanced Studies (Graduate School/Professional Certification)

Depending on your post-UMGC studies aspirations, choose either the Employment or the Advanced Studies option to complete. If you are planning to attend graduate school or continue your education in a professional certification program (e.g., nursing, physical therapy, social work) complete the Advanced Studies option. If you are currently employed and plan to remain at your job for now, select the document type that best expresses an option you may, or plan to, pursue in the future.

a. Job Search: the results of a computerized job search that yielded at least three job possibilities and a brief report that explains why each of these jobs are appropriate for you based on your immediate and long-term career and life goals as described in the first section of this portfolio.

b. Cover Letter: Compose a professional-appearing cover letter that can be modified for specific job applications. When writing address your knowledge, skills and abilities derived from your experiences and from your work in the Psychology program.

c. Letter of Recommendation Request: Draft and present a personalized model letter that can be used to request letters of recommendation for an employment opportunity.