Before You Build a Portfolio - Deepstash

Before You Build a Portfolio

  • Who is your audience? Is portfolio an extension of your CV or a website where you market your skills and sell your services?
  • What are they looking for? Employers want to look at your code, your clients don’t care about it
  • How will they use your portfolio? Employers want to see your projects and code, while clients take interest in your services, case studies and personality.
  • What are their pain points? Employers need a team player who meets deadlines. Clients need trustworthy and reliable devs - use logos and case studies to prove that.
  • Why you? What are the benefits of working with you?

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coffeestasia

Occasional writer about time management and productivity

As any other specialists, developers need to market themselves to get dream jobs and projects, attract more clients and reach a desirable level of income. The necessary skills and a killer portfolio website are the two things that you need...

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