How to make a portfolio?

First, we should know what a portfolio is, and then we can know how it helps, how to create it, and what docs to add to it.

A portfolio is a collection of documents (word doc, PDF, Google Docs) that you carry as an example of your work, especially when applying for a job. You can also take it to an interview, send it to a prospective employer, or even post it online on some sites like Medium, HubSpot, quora etc.

How can a content writing portfolio help?

When you have a portfolio you can show your work by adding all docs in 1 folder. It helps employers and hiring people to know about your English writing skills, knowledge about a particular niche, and your writing language, and also helps them to know if you understood the concept of a topic and wrote correctly about it or not. It showcases if you are suitable for their job position or not. If your portfolio is built perfectly with proper docs and files about your field, it gets easy for them to hire you.

But a portfolio doesn't always help in getting jobs. Some verbal talk is also part of it. But, They just check the portfolio. There is no use for it. I consider it a waste of time because after they check, they will call you, have a chat and then give you assignments to do. What's the point of the portfolio if we have to write again to show our skills? But creating it can help you know your skills to help increase speed in writing and researching too.

How to create a portfolio?

• First, decide your niche. You have to write on 2-3 niches to show it in your portfolio. See, when I first created them, I simply added them in one folder named portfolio, but after that, I saw in the portfolio folder we have to divide our docs into other folders. I want to explain it in steps.
• First, create a folder named portfolio and save it in your drive.
• In the portfolio folder, create other 1-2 folders. For eg, if you have written in digital marketing, name that folder as digital marketing, write 2-3 articles and blogs about that topic and add it to the folder. If you have written on law niche, add some articles in that folder.
• Like that name niche in a folder so that employers can check the one they need, and you can also share it separately. Because they don't open and check every folder, article, or blog we have written. They only check one.
• If you have applied for a law writer job, you can share the law folder separately with your blogs.
• You can copy links from Drive, change permission to read only and share the link.
• You can also share your law niche portfolio for other niche jobs. You just have to inform them that you have this niche’s portfolio. They just need a portfolio to check our skills and some other things to decide if they want to take another round of interviews or not.
• This shows how perfect we are and always create blogs in Google Docs or PDFs. Convert them into pdf if you have written them in a Word file. Sharing Word file create a bad impact. I was also not getting selected for that, so I changed it.
• Also, after you add blogs, keep on checking them because we always find something to change in them after learning new things. I changed the style of my writing if I used communicative language like you, us, or our. I kept that tone in my whole blog. I also checked them in Grammarly and found lots of grammar mistakes. I also checked for plagiarism in my content. Then after some more research, I did an AI content check too. I suggest to keep on checking it again and again. You will always find something to change in it.
• Also, after making a portfolio, you can either keep and share it separately or attach a drive link to your CV.THANK YOU FOR READING!!