Portfolios

System
System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
edited 10:09AM in AAT student discussion
Having just completed three years AAT study and through this time have had to keep a protfolio what use are they.<BR><BR>I have been told we have to keep them for six years but I believe my foundation one has already gone to the waste bin in the sky. I would never show it to my employer and I do not think any prospective employer would ever as to see it all they would be interested in are the cerfificates.<BR><BR>I just think they are a total waste of time and space does anyone agree.

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I disagree with you, I will not through my own work. It's my evidence that I deserved to be an AAT qualified.If you respect the certificate more than your own work then I know that there are some countries who make duplicate certificates but you will not be proud of it.<BR><BR>It's just my openion.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Wen<BR><BR>I have been told by my tutors, that you have to keep your portfolio's for 3 years after completing Technichian level. This is because AAT can call for your portfolio at any time, to verify that you have passed all the units!!<BR><BR>Oops!
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I was also told that I needed to keep my Technician portfolio for 3 years, just in case the AAT or someone else wanted to review it<BR><BR>I asked a lecturer at college what I needed to do to complete it (the auditing and project sections were already signed off) and he said just stick a CV and Job Description in it and it will be fine! I have not done anything with my portfolio since receiving this advice, and have now filed it in my loft, where it will stay till 2008<BR><BR>I tend to agree with some other postings at the moment, what's the point of the portfolio? No-one checks it is finished, no-one has to review it, the whole process seems like a waste of time and effort to me!
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    As of next year, (I think it's next year), portfolios will not be required as part of the AAT course. <BR>It just goes to show that they're not really that useful as even the AAT are making them obsolete. <BR><BR>Almost everything in the portfolio is covered by the simulations and the exams and the project. Why stick 'duplicates' in a file to prove that you've done what you've done!<BR><BR>The only thing I would say is that it's quite useful to have all of the work done over the 3 years together in one file. Just think it could have been done more succinctly.<BR><BR>
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I haven't done this 'Technician Portfolios'... My college lecturers told us that there is no Technician Portfolios, so I only have AAT intermediate portfolio at home. (I didn't have to do Foundation since I've got book keeping qualification)<BR><BR>I just finished my final 2 papers this month and I though I can just enjoy myself this summer while I wait for my result.<BR><BR>Do I need to ask for Technician Portofolios and start getting my lecturers' signatures? It would be difficult/impossible since I changed my college after 6 months and I wouldn't be surprised my old costing lecturer has lost his job since then.<BR><BR>BTW, no one has never, ever asked me to see my intermediate portfolio, probably because they have never heard of it!

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