(1) The document discusses how to create an effective portfolio to showcase talents and skills in order to connect with others, demonstrate work, and gain professional opportunities and income.
(2) It recommends including a diverse selection of work samples with clear descriptions, hosting the portfolio on an optimized website, and promoting it on social media and online communities.
(3) Effective portfolios are useful for employment opportunities, education, and identifying specific skill areas for various creative fields like graphic design, advertising, and multimedia production.
2. INTRODUCTION
Do you have abundant pool of talent within you but are wondering how to showcase it? How
to connect with people for production and success? How to grab good professional income?
Something to demonstrate your skills and potential to encase your unique work ? Did more
and more efforts and hard work but failed in fetching attention worldwide?
The straightforward and simplest solution to all above questions is to design
a portfolio! Portfolio word is combination of porta meaning “carry” and foglio meaning
“sheet/leaf” .So basically portfolio is a potable representation of collection of important
documents , work samples, patent work ,photographs ,maps ,artwork ,assets or a platform to
showcase genuine work. Almost anything and everything we could share via making an
enhanced portfolio compiling all innovative ideas which lead to have exposure exponentially.
For example, in a restaurant the menu given to us, describes all dishes, popular dishes along
with photos, description of ingredient, prices and ratings i.e. feedback from customer’s
prospections is mini version of portfolio. For a creative professional, making online portal is
a boon and most powerful marketing tool. Portfolio is a trailer of your whole movie of
abundant possession of willpower to deliver productivity to contribute in the society. It
consists of images, videos and texts of total package of work /experience in defined manner
which could be used for evaluation.
Versatility by showing different samples of current work is fundamental ingredients. For
example earlier graphic designer focus on logos, brochures, posters, designing books and
flyers but with emergence of technology, web designing, broadcast graphics and interactive
media are common. Simple formula for portfolio designing Building a good portfolio helps in
fetching jobs of various profiles like Creative Director, Art Director Graphic Designer, Brand
Developer, Illustrator, Production Artist, Prepress Technician, Interaction Designer, Motion
Graphics Designer etc. Moreover portfolio are used in graphic design studios, advertising
agencies, web publications, multimedia production houses, magazines, newspapers, printing
houses, retail stores, television/entertainment industries, and government agencies or
educational institutions for diverse reasons.
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3. Steps to create portfolio
(1) Identify work sample to share: Diversity of projects needs to be included in
portfolio.
(2) Description of each sample in well-defined manner: For example along with image
right amount of description gives idea of client’s requirements and delivery offered.
(3) Choose a web platform: Based on technical requirement choose web platform that
is more effective and presentable. Showcase your work tactfully either use hosted
portfolio website (like Dunked or portfoliobox) or self-hosted website which requires
less maintenance and self-designed themes.
(4) Optimize your website: Reconsidering and refining images /content which is
placed in portfolio.
(5) Promote your work: Joining online communities and sharing work helps in
improving your work. Promotion includes social media like Facebook, twitter etc. are
really appealing. Make sure your portfolio is web-ready, mobile friendly and updated
periodically.
Basics includes creating a navigation plan like index or table content for the
convenience of viewer, quick summary of certificates obtained, description of work
profile/experiences and exemplify skills along with samples attachments. It may
include good samples of digital work also .Last but not the least, use simple yet
attractive design and put everything in an organized way.
4. Uses of portfolios
1. Community services sector/ Education sector: Portfolio includes search,
summaries of activities performed, pictures, videos, projects, etc. more
demanding in education sectors .Also, describing educational innovations
may help in contributing towards society and even for getting a deserving
student to enroll in colleges considering interests.
2. Employment sector: Portfolio is widely used in employment sectors for
evaluation of work experiences, projects etc. It helps both the candidate
as well as recruiter to systematically putting best of skills and help in
evaluating based on specific interest areas.
3. Identifying Skill areas: Portfolio describes specific areas of interests, such
as designing logos, websites, illustrations, public speaking, problem
solving, or the use of technology more specifically.