How to Build a Portfolio That Gets You Hired

A portfolio is not an archive. Nobody is grading you on volume — they're deciding, in about ninety seconds, whether to email you.

Six, not twenty

Every weak project drags down the average. Show six things you'd happily do again, and lead with the kind of work you want more of — not the work you happened to get most of.

What to write under each project

• The problem — one sentence on what the client needed.
• What you did — your part specifically, not the team's.
• What happened — a number if you have one, an outcome if you don't.

That's three sentences. Most portfolios have zero, which leaves the viewer looking at pretty pictures with no idea what you're good at.

The contact mistake

Burying contact details on a separate page. Put an email address and a way to message you on every project page. The moment someone is convinced is the moment they should be able to act.

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