Career Portfolio

You will be building your very own Professional Career As Healthcare Information Management Professional( Registered health information Administrator (RHIA) Portfolio. These required components of your career portfolio.

Deliverables: Your finalized Professional Career Portfolio must include the following items:

1.Professional Career Branding Plan

2.Leadership Philosophy

3.Resume & Cover Letter

4.A Portfolio of Sample Work

5.Career Goals

6.A Sample “Thank You Letter”

Professional Career Branding Plan

Professional Career Branding has come into existence. Just as companies spend the time, energy and resources to invest in building a name for them, the same is required when it comes to establishing your professional career brand. Read and view the following article and videos:

Build a Personal Brand, Not Just a Career: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2012/11/19/build-a-personal-brand-not-just-a-career/#4f18571c4075

How to Brand Your Career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw96tL0ZfBc

Transform Your Career With Your Own Personal Brand Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJQSiZLJaw

After you have watched the recommended video’s, create your career branding plan by listing at minimum five (5) measures on how you plan to boost your career brand. For example, the creation of a LinkedIn page is a great example that many utilize to market themselves from an employability standpoint. Upload the final draft of your professional career branding jump start list within your portfolio.

Leadership Philosophy

Based on your aspirations and interests, list five professional career goals you would like to accomplish as they relate to your aspirations of becoming a Health Informatics & Information Management professional. Start with the small goals and gradually move to larger goals. Creating goals leads to identifying the various steps and processes necessary to accomplish each goal. In addition, it also offers the opportunity for self-reflection. Dig back into previous work experiences and/or current work experiences, whether good or bad and create your leadership philosophy. Your leadership philosophy shall consist between two (2) – three (3) pages. Within your philosophy, be sure to address the following items listed below.

Personal values such as honesty, commitment, respect for others

Description of how you will carry out your responsibilities

What your priorities are

What you expect of your colleagues and staff and how you will evaluate them

What your colleagues and staff can expect of you

Your connection to at least one (1) leadership theory

Resources:

Five Steps to Craft Your Own Personal Leadership Philosophy: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-steps-craft-your-own-personal-leadership-philosophy-deb-calvert

How to Develop a Leadership Philosophy: https://www.thindifference.com/2014/02/develop-leadership-philosophy/