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Job search: Back up your resume with a portfolio

Job searching

Most employers will doubt that you can back up claims you make of your skills and achievements, they will have probably looked through thousands of portfolios when recruiting for jobs and have been let down more than once. When your resume lands on the employer’s desk they aren’t likely to give you the benefit of the doubt no matter how good your claims are so the best way to go is by producing a portfolio which can back up any claims you make in your resume.

What does a portfolio consist of?

A portfolio is simply a collection of your achievements and work which includes classroom, volunteer and internship all neatly put together and presented in a three ring binder which you can then bring with you to interviews that you attend. During interviews you can then present your portfolio to the interviewer to back up what you said in your resume about any experience, skills and education that you have.


Job applications & the internet

Job applications

The amount of jobs which are being advertised on the internet is rapidly growing in numbers; anyone serious about finding work should have developed a strategy for job searching which includes looking online. The internet is available to you anytime day or night and holds valuable information when looking for jobs such as recruiter’s websites, employer’s websites, online journals and newspapers and employment sites.

Visiting an online employment site can help you with more than just giving you job vacancies it can also help you to build a CV by making use of CV building software. The CV software will take you step by step through the process of building and filling in your CV online.