It IS all about the evidence!

When opportunity knocks you will want to demonstrate what you know, what you can do and what values you hold as important. What evidence will you point to? What experiences have you been involved in?

How effectively can you use this evidence to help differentiate yourself from from someone who has simply taken the classes to someone who can demonstrate capacity to move forward in their chosen professional area?

Think of evidence in BROAD terms. You will collect evidence as a result of the courses that you take at Penn State. But you should also collect evidence from your co-curricular experiences outside of class, as well as your personal life experiences. All of this can help to represent who you are.

Question: What are the top five pieces of evidence that you would use to help demonstrate, describe, represent who you are? Why did you select those five as representative?

What you list in your resume is up to you. The same is true of an e-portfolio.