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, 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. Click on the link to the portfolio card on the Dashboard of your account.
3. Click on the Career History page in the sub-menu.
4. Click on + New Career Entry.
5. Choose a proforma from the drop-down.
6. 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.
   • If you are an ST4 or above, you will have a section on the form for Profession Development Sessions these may also referred to as Special Interest Sessions.
   • 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, chose the specialty for that post.
   • It's important that you enter the % full time equivalent of your post. This can be use to calculate your completion of training date. If you are full-time, enter 100 into the % Full Time Equivalent field.
7. Click on Submit or Save as Draft.
   • Submitting a Career Entry form publishes it to the trainee's portfolio making it visible to others such as the trainee's supervisors or those involved in the trainee's ARCP & The College.
   • Saving the form as draft saves what you have written, but does not make the form visible to to others until you submit it.