How to leverage your portfolio resume section with semantic. Most ePortfolio environments include a resume section. Students are either asked to upload a resume PDF file or fill a form with usual sections like contact information, education, experience, etc. In this presentation, we discuss two related issues: i. the potential benefits for students and employers of adding some standard semantic (EuroPass) to the resume section; ii. the idea of using the resume metaphor as the basis for building an enriched career or presentation portfolio with artefacts, campus activities and reflexive comments. These ideas are illustrated though a pilot conducted in a business school.

1. How to leverage your portfolio resume section with semantic Jacques Raynauld, HEC Montréal and MATI Montréal Nicole TétaNokam, MATI Montréal

2. Context MATI Montréal is a research center :HEC Montréal, École polytechnique and University of Montréal Started a strategic initiative on portfolios in 2009– AAEEBEL présentation last year Follow-up on a specificsub-project : resume Looking for yourcomments 2 AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28

3. The key goal AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 3 Portfolio …….. …….. …….. Portfolio …….. …….. …….. Resume Resume (PDF) The resume is a section of the portfolio …usually in a separate static PDF The resume is generated dynamically from the information contained in the portfolio (semantic).

4. Overview Project at HEC Montréal : students, employers and career center needs PDF resumes are not the answer Whatkind of semantic? The resume as a portfolio by-product and metaphor Our set of flexible tools Demo of ourenvironment Future work : links to social networks? AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 4

5. Project at Hec Montréal Influence of a Florida State presentation at last year AAEEBL conference AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 5

6. Project at HEC Montréal Students Resume is an inescapable need No easy to write a good resume Need some guidance … … and a more reflexive process Need more than a resume … e-portfolio AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 6

7. Project at HEC Montréal Employers (focus group) Still use the 2-page resume No time to look at e-portfolios Need for better and more efficient tools Interested to search standardized resume using flexible criteria … … and look more closely at 2 or 3 specific e-portfolios AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 7

8. Project at HEC Montréal Career Center (focus group) Support the students in their resume and job search Need tools to provide better guidance and foster a more reflexive approach Actual process is cumbersome : receiving PDF resumes and sending comments by mails Need tools to be more efficient Need to create booklets (MBA Graduating Class) AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 8

9. Project at HEC Montréal Possible solution - e-portfolios with a more semantic resume section Template for students Research by employers Better guidance and feedback for the career center with a comment process built in + easy booklet production AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 9

10. PDF Resume is not the answer Not searchable for employers Cumbersome for career offices No real guidance for students … except for outside “How to write a good resume” Need something more semantic and linked to a e-portfolio type discourse AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 10

11. What kind of semantic? By semantic we refer to an environment where a specific information is linked by the system to its true meaning Jacques Raynauld = Name HEC Montréal = school Etc. AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 11

12. What Kind of Semantic? AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 12

13. What Kind of Semantic? AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 13

14. What Kind of Semantic? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheethref="http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/xml/cv_en_GB.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <europass:learnerinfoxmlns:europass="http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/Europass/V1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/Europass/V1.0 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/xml/EuropassSchema_V1.0.xsd" locale="en_GB"> <identification><firstname>Fred</firstname> <lastname>Bloggs</lastname> <contactinfo><address>My Street My Village MyTown Tyne and Wear UK NE1 2AB </address> <telephone>0191 246 4539</telephone> <fax></fax> <mobile></mobile> <email>paul.horner@ncl.ac.uk</email> </contactinfo> <demographics><birthdate>1979-08-07</birthdate> </demographics> AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 14

15. What Kind of Semantic? Choose EuroPass Well accepted European standard Export/import capabilities Gates to HR-XML Many tools available Etc. AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 15

16. The Resume as a Portfolio by-product and Metaphor Students fill their resume …but in the process are guided to: Reflect on the competencies developed Attach relevant artefacts The result: An e-portfolio A searchable resume for employers A printable version of their resume An XML export EuroPassfile AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 16

17. Our set of flexible tools Need to design a veryspecial portfolio Not all universitieswill push the sameresumetemplate How to incorporateappropriatesemantic How to incorporateneededfeatures : seach, comments, etc. AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 17

18. Our set of flexible tools Portfolio solution developed by MATI Montréal Presentedat last yearconference Learning portfolios : a structured approach AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 18

19. Our set of tools 19 AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28

20. Our set of tools AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 20 http://www.matimtl.ca/sitesMATI/WAD/jsp/list.jsp

22. Files

23. Forms

24. Comments

25. Fields

26. Competencies

28. Demo of our environment AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 23 Search by competency, experience, etc. is easy since we have some semantic built-in (it is not full text search) Student #1 Name Degree Competencies Work experience Access the full portfolio Student #2 Name Degree Competencies Work experience Access the full portfolio Student #3 Name Degree Competencies Work experience Access the full portfolio

29. Road-map Pilot in Septemberwith the Marketing Association (to create a booklet) Project withUniversity of Grenoble to add a social layer (for alumnii) Understand the possibles links withprofessional networks LinkedIn, Monster, AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 24

30. Road-map SlideShare Jacques.raynauld@hec.ca Questions? AAEEBL 2011 Conference – Boston, USA– July 26-28 25