Sunshine NanniesBuilding
your professional portfolio.
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portfolio should provide information about your skills and personal attributes
that are not easily conveyed via a C.V.
It is your chance to show off
and also provides an agenda for your interview. Prospective employers will enjoy
seeing actual things that you have done with children you have looked after and
items you have produced during your training.
The time to start building
your portfolio is when you are at college. It will need updating periodically
throughout your career. You must try to include work of a standard that you are
able to maintain. Remember that typed information is always better than hand-written.
Things to include:
Your
Curriculum Vitae.
Any
written testimonials you may have from your employers. (Full-time employment in
any field, holiday and weekend work, regular babysitting jobs, voluntary work
with children in schools, playgroups, nursery schools or family centres).
A
typed list of the placements you attended during your course, giving details of
the amount of time you spent there, your duties and the age of the children.
If
you have worked as a Nanny or Mothers help before, please give details of your
duties and explain the breadth of your responsibilities.
Photographs
of any practical work you have done with children. E.g. wall displays art and
craft work.
Your
certificates including:
Childcare
GCSEs
First
Aid (if applicable)
Photocopy
your driving licence and any musical or sporting certificates etc.
Copies of your
C.V. and references as a pack you can leave with your potential employer. So depending
on the amount of interviews you go for you will need to have a few of these available.
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