2. Portfolio Tips
Your portfolio is the key to landing a job. Resumes are secondary, and sometimes irrelevant. Develop a digital portfolio (online or pdf) that managers can quickly review to see if your skills and style fit their project and solve their problem.
Know Who You are: Start your employment process with as accurate a view of yourself as possible. What are your strengths? What are your passions? Do your strengths and passions intersect? Define your employment goal in light of the feedback you receive
Keep It Simple: don’t include everything you’ve ever done. Show them quality and variety.
Organized: help lead the viewer to the skills, experience or project (print, web, UI, type, motion, etc…)
Informative: If you don’t explain what you did, the manager will assume the worst. Help reduce the manager’s risk in hiring you.
Variety: try to show your design versatility.
Consistency: Nothing makes a manager more wary than inconsistent levels of quality. If a client has hijacked the design process and the results aren’t your best, it could be a good idea to not include that work. If they don’t see a a consistent pattern of high-bar work, they’ll assume you’re as good as your worst work.
Check out some portfolio links on the home page.
For a quick and easy portfolio, I recommend www.carbonmade.com.
