Your CV says you designed a booking app or wrote a research report; a portfolio lets the reader see it. Portfolios are standard in design, architecture, photography, writing, marketing and software, and increasingly useful elsewhere. Common forms are a personal website, a PDF, a GitHub profile, or a profile on a platform such as Behance or Dribbble. A strong portfolio is selective:
- Five to ten of your best, most relevant pieces.
- For each one: the problem, your role, what you did and the result.
- Clear credit when work was done in a team.
