Add a Career Entry to your Portfolio

Trainees and those in non-training posts should enter accurate information into their portfolio about their career such as their posts/placements, periods of extended absence (e.g. maternity leave, paternity leave, jury service), or time out of programme (OOP). This is because the information in a career entry may be used by supervisors, ARCP panels & The College to perform their respective roles.

1. Log in to your account.
2. Go to the Career History page in your Portfolio.
3. Click on + New Career Entry.
4. Choose a proforma from the drop-down.
5. Click on Create New Activity and complete the details on the form.
   • If you are entering a training or non-training post, make sure that the start and end dates of the post are accurate.
   • If you are entering a non-training post, the training level should be the level you are being assessed at.
   • If you change a field with the  symbol, this will update other areas of your portfolio.
   • The Placement Specialty field is for your specialty in your Programme. If you are a core trainee, choose 'Core'. If you are in a non-training post, choose the specialty for that post.
6. Click on Submit or Save Draft.
   • Submitting a Career Entry form publishes it to your portfolio making it visible to others such as supervisors, appraisers or those involved in the trainee's ARCP & The College. It also adds it to the list of posts that can be selected when creating your PDP.
   • Saving the form as draft saves what you have written, but does not make the form visible to to others until you submit it. It won't be available in the list of posts that can be selected when creating your PDP.