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Discussion on: How to Build a Great Developer Portfolio (+ Examples & Tools)

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Ashley Sheridan

One thing I've always found to be good advice is the layout of your skillset if you're presenting that in some way. There are a few key points:

  • At some point someone responsible for recruiting will look over it. Sometimes, they need to review a lot of them in a short space of time, so you need to ensure you're not dropped in that first round of review.
  • Avoid scoring systems for your skills. I've had to review CVs where candidates had marked themselves 10/10 on a particular programming language, yet only had a few years experience.
  • Whatever you've got on the website might be printed out, so consider how that will look.

An approach I've found useful for myself is to present my skills in a table, and mark them with words like "fair" or "good" to explain my level of each of them. Lastly, I set up print stylesheets in the CSS to ensure that the table was presented well and looked good in grey without images.

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