How to create a career portfolio

Wondering how to create a career portfolio for your first post-college job hunt? This blog post is for you.

By the time you get to this blog post, you should know:

• What a portfolio is
• Why portfolios are important to your job hunt
• How and when to use them during the job hunting process

And now you are ready to create your portfolios!

The three types of portfolios:

• Printed: a printed Powerpoint with highlights
• Digital: a PDF version of the printed (maybe slightly more detailed)
• Online: a website with all of the details of your experience

How to create each of the three portfolios:

Don’t worry! They each build off of each other so creating three versions doesn’t take much more effort.

1. Create an outline
   • Choose your top 3 projects
   • Write down why you chose these projects. (hint: they should be related to the jobs you are applying to)
2. Create the printed version of your portfolio
   • Create a PowerPoint of what you outlined and print it
3. Create the digital version of your portfolio
   • Building off of the PowerPoint, add a little more detail and download it as a pdf
4. Create the online version of your portfolio
   • Take it online and add all of the details

Now what?

Now that you know how to create a portfolio, here’s what you need to get started. And you’ll want to download this FREE Career Roadmap to discover your path to your dream job and get rid of any job searching guesswork.

Up next: What you need to create a career portfolio