Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What actually gets you hired The old portfolio advice — twenty repositories, a wall of certificates, a personal site listing every tutorial you have ever completed — is now working against you. As of mid-2026, the people hiring AI engineers in India and the UK do not read any of that. They open your links, they look for evidence that you can put a language model into production and keep it running, and they decide within a couple of minutes. Your profile and the links on it are your proof-of-work. Three excellent, deployed projects beat twenty half-finished ones almost every time. This guide is a durable method, not a trend chase. The specific models will change; the shape of the portfolio will not. Build these three projects well, deploy them somewhere a reviewer can click, document them…
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