The ABCs of Building Your Portfolio

Written by Trixia Policarpio

Building a portfolio should be one of your top priorities if you're aiming for a creative career. Potential clients and companies typically require this to truly assess your skills and abilities. Portfolios are one of the best ways to show off your work and stand out among the candidates.

However, if you have years of experience and hundreds of pieces to exhibit, compiling them into a single portfolio may be pretty challenging. Of course, we all want to highlight our accomplishments and proud artwork, but how can we do it without overwhelming the clients? What should your portfolio's contents be? In the rest of this article, we'll talk about how to make a concise yet compelling portfolio!?

What You Specialize In?

An employer will want to know what areas of design you specialize in, so they can easily determine if you suit a position or freelancing gig. In your portfolio, you don't need to put all your work in; instead, select your greatest works to demonstrate your range. As much as you want to show off different types and forms you've worked on in the past, keep in mind that the employer assumes everything in your portfolio is a style you're comfortable with, which helps them decide which projects to give you. With this, it is critical that you only include future work you want to do.

The Project Brief?

Don't merely show clients and companies stunning but uncontextualized samples of your work on your portfolio. Aside from the appeal, the employer must assess how successfully your work satisfied the client's needs. So make sure to add accompanying text describing the project brief and how you accomplished it. Also, before including a work in your portfolio, make sure to obtain permission from the organization, firm, or client for whom you created the project.

Quick and Compelling Self-Intro?

Your about section introduces you to potential clients. It complements your portfolio and provides your background information. Know what you're being hired to do, then include instances in your assertion. The idea in this section is to come up with creative ways to talk about the value you bring to clients.?

Include A Call To Action?

Most online portfolios include your contact information and a button that allows potential clients to contact you by email or phone. This is self-explanatory, but a contact page or section is also an opportunity to stand out. If you opt to use a one-page portfolio, this is where you can tell clients to contact you if they want to learn more. One advantage of this method is that it helps you to keep track of who is interested in your work.

Choose A User-Friendly Portfolio?

Even the best portfolio will be ignored if it is in small print. Once you've decided on your projects, about page, and portfolio, it's time to consider design and layout.

Consider how a user navigates a website. Do you think buttons make sense? Is the layout simple to understand? As a candidate, you must use appropriate typefaces and font sizes, bold text, and utilize larger letters so that someone scrolling quickly can get the gist by reading the headlines.

With these handy tips, you can now build an outstanding portfolio! After that, let Jobdenn help you apply for jobs and seek career opportunities in the creative, digital, and technological industries. Sign up now!