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How do positions you hold in JC affect your portfolio?



During your junior college (JC) years, you may hear your peers or seniors telling you to do this or that to build up your Portfolio. You may join in the frenzy, initiate in taking up positions so as to beef up and make your portfolio look better. But as you do what you do, you may start to wonder: Why am I doing it and am I doing it right? How do the positions I am holding really affect my portfolio?

At the end of your two or three years in JC/MI, you will be given a testimonial by your school that accounts and documents all the momentous co-curricular Activities that you have taken up. Taking on extra activities and responsibilities will definitely give you the extra lines on your portfolio. But, that is actually not what truly matters. It is what you do in the co-curricular activities that matters on your portfolio.

Here are some questions to guide you through so as to help you pick the right activities to participate in:

What are some opportunities that will be presented to you in this CCA?
What skills will you be able to acquire, exemplify and develop in the process of that co-curricular activity?
How does taking part in this CCA differentiate you from another student?
What are some possible concrete and actual achievements or results in your involvement in that activity?

These are essentially what really matters in your participation in CCAs. Your future professor or employer will not have the luxury of time to read every single line narrating down to the most specific detail on what you had done at the co-curricular activities. Rather, they are more interested in learning more about your traits and skills and how these can come to contribute to their organization. Thus, when it comes to choosing co-curricular activities to take part in, be selective. The JC curriculum is packed and fast-paced and will leave you with very little time to put time into other activities. Pick those that will allow you to acquire experiences that will allow you to stand out from the rest. Many people often rush to clock up Values in Action (VIA) hours or just participate in several activities for the sake of doing so. Instead, consider the earlier questions and try to take up a position in an area of your interest. It may be a class committee position (i.e class Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Welfare Representative etc), a CCA committee role or initiating a VIA project. There are also other platforms like representing your school to take part in competitions, signing up for enrichment programmes to take part in that will serve to value-add your education.

Apart from helping in your university application and potential internships/jobs, these positions and co-curricular activities that you are involved in can also help you if you are considering to take up a scholarship after your JC. It may be especially important for this as well because the assessors of the scholarship are often looking out for distinctive traits that would set applicants apart from the other.

For instance, if you step up to initiate to lead a VIA project for your class in school, that would set you apart from your peers who only participated in the VIA project. Initiating a project would reflect your pro-activeness in working, your organizational and management skills, your ability to manage people and etc. Thus, these are the key that scholarship assessors look out for.

In essence, it is the quality and not the quantity that matters. Thus, the key to maximizing the positions that you are holding or will potentially come to hold is to make the best out of the opportunities given to you at where you are. Avoid being a passive receiver, but be the active leader or contributor whenever possible.



This post first appeared on Yodaa Home Tuition Singapore, please read the originial post: here

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