CASE INCIDENT 1 Too Much of a Good Thing Have you created an e-portfolio for job applications? If you attend the University of Massachusetts, the University of South Florida, Stanford, Marquette, or Westminster Col- they have yet to obtain a single corporate contract. Another lege, where e-portfolios are expected, you probably have developed one. E-portfolios–digitized dossiers of presen- tations, projects, writing samples, and other work-are used by over 50 percent of students looking for jobs or internships. Putting together an e-portfolio is "a learning process," said Enterprise talent acquisition VP Marie Artim. experience, linked to a career opportunity," said Associate Professor Tim Shea, who oversees a business school's man- datory e-portfolio program. Proponents contend that e-portfolios don't replace résu- més, they enhance them. "You can write on a résumé that you did an internship somewhere, but if I can see the proj- ects that you worked on, it gives me a more rounded view of e-portfolios would be stored. Portfolio hubs Pathbrite and thePortfolium have tried to get around this problem, but reason is information overload-managers don't have time to read through, say, your travel log from a semester at sea. Third, many companies don't believe e-portfolios are val- ue-added. “They are typically not a factor in our screening Stuart Silverman, a university dean, acknowledged the pos- sibility. "Whether or not the prospective employer looked at it, or weighed it, who knows." Proponents of e-portfolios, primarily from the education sector, believe there is value in them beyond job seeking. Kerri Shaffer Carter, a university director of e-portfolios, says, "We don't draw a sharp distinction between the portfolio as