lifehacker.com: Even if you’re not a freelancer or a “creative,” you’ll probably benefit from a page that lays out your accomplishments, and not just your work history. If you ever want to give a talk, get quoted in an article, work a side hustle, start your own business, or just get a job offer, then you need a public portfolio.
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Everyone needs a portfolio. Unless you want to work for McDonalds all your life. Yes, we all have resumes and yes they are all boring. I like the idea of googling myself. If you can’t find yourself in 30seconds or less, no one will find you. In today’s fast paced world, when we want to find something, we want to do it quickly. We don’t want to waste time digging through website after website. What the article doesn’t talk much about is that yes have a linked in or your own website, but also keep it professional. If you want to post pictures of your cat all over the place, don’t do it on your website or business profile. Create a separate business profile on Facebook for professional work and put photos of your work there. Link these to your website or linked in profile. It’s ok to have a personal and profession twitter, Instagram or similar account. If you want work, you need to work at getting yourself out there. You need to be found. To that end, don’t overload your website or portfolio with everything. Have a couple of resumes available. I was told once a piece of advice that I still follow: What do you want to do? Does your resume reflect that? Does it list things that are not relevant? If you answer yes to the all three of these, then tweak it. Put out there the you that you want others to see.
This article, though it is about portfolios, touches on some of the discussion we’ve had in professional practice. Though this article is discussing portfolios, we’ve discussed the order in which people present things a few times. This article suggests putting your most impressive work first. On a resume, that might mean going contrary to the reverse chronological order that is the standard. This article highlights one of the key reasons why I don’t have a website – keeping it updated. I know that having a website can only work to my advantage and will put my name, and skills, out there. However, not having an updated website could do more harm than not having one at all. I wouldn’t want to hire me if I saw that my website hadn’t been updated in more than three years. This article talks about having a portfolio when it may be more accurate to say website or online portfolio.
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