How Portfolio Increases Your Chance To Land On Good Job/Internship | How To Create Portfolio
Most of us don’t even think of building a personal portfolio while applying to job or internship, we think a resume will work. Portfolio can land you a good job or intership which a good resume cannot do. I will share you my personal experience with my portfolio and how I got selected for internships.
I will also share few best design and site templates for your portfolio.
My Portfolio Link — https://xenonstudio.in/developer
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There are many websites which provide you free or paid hosting plan for your portfolio on there domain. If you are good at coding or designing then just create a amazing and unique portfolio. For my portfolio I got a domain and website builder plan from GoDaddy (it was really cheap). I was also using this site for apps and to showcase it’s features and all so I didn't got any personal name domain.
What To Add In Portfolio
Well as a developer I had a bunch of projects to display. So I created my portfolio into 2 section.
The first one included :
- Your Summary
- Work
- Projects Link
- LinkedIn Link
- Stackover Flow Link
- Blog Link
- Resume Link
- GitHub link
- Contact Page
The second one where I included all my projects :
- Project Title
- Image
- Project Summary
- Link
How Can Portfolio Help In Landing on job/internship
In my summer vacation I applied for many internship, and everywhere I gave my portfolio link. I got calls from 80% of internship, and the first thing most of company asked was about my projects listed in my portfolio. They were more interested in knowing about my projects and how I developed it. Most of them didn’t even checked my resume. Your past projects, GitHub account can increase your chance to get a job or internship. Include everything you have done till now, If you have created a small project or help someone in there project.
Majority of the Companies goes by the skills and past experiences. If you applying for internship than having a good number of projects and contribution on GitHub, then it will definitely leave a good impression on company or the hiring person.
Non-Technical Portfolio
Well as a developer I had many projects but if you are in different field than you might not have this many projects. So if you come from any non-technical background then you might add things like -
- Your summary
- Education
- Work Experience
- Projects
- LinkedIn Link
- Blog Link
- Resume Link
- Contact link
If you don’t have many projects, you can Focus on other things. Add things related to your work (for e.g — If you are a marketing person, then showcase your skills, add catchy lines, any past work). Add any small or big thing you have work on till now.
Be active on LinkedIn if you are technical or non-technical person. Post anything related to your field every week, make new connections. Write unique blogs and share link on LinkedIn, this will help you grow and get new connections.
Design And Templates
Well there are many ways you can create your own portfolio, you can hire someone to do that or create online from drag & drop or edit few ready made templates. I have given link for few sites and few templates for different fields.
You can get domain or hosting from Godaddy, Host gator or other websites. You can Even go for WordPress if you want a simple and free kind of portfolio.
The Best way I would suggest if buy domain from godaddy(e.g- yourname.com or anything related to your field), then buy website builder plan. This will cost your around 15$ per year. Just a simple drag and drop website builder. If you are software developer or designer than a portfolio is must.
