Today’s Plan:
- Web Presence and Portfolio
- Homework
Web Presence
For the final component of our Job Materials project, I want you to develop both an online web presence and a portfolio. What do I mean by web presence? What belongs in a portfolio? What can I use to put these together?
Let’s comb through some relevant readings and carve out answers:
- How to Create Professional Online Profiles
- How to Build a Resume Website That Will Impress Every Hiring Manager Who Sees It
- How To Create a Killer Writing Portfolio for Freelancers
- Clippings.me
- JournoPortfolio.com
- Student Website Examples / Portfolio examples
- Is LinkedIn Worth It or a Waste of Time?
- What Your LinkedIn Profile Should Look Like in 2018
My expectations for your web presence project:
- A graphic and engaging website that contains
- An “About Me” or personal description
- A resume
- A portfolio of at least four works with some level of textual splash/blurb/description
- Contact information, including links to professional social media
- Something else?
- A Linkedin account that contains
- Education
- Skills section
- Location
- Summary Statement / Elevator Pitch (40-50 words)
- One more relevant and or cool thing–another social media account that actually has relevant content, a blog with some posts, something
Homework
Make sure there’s a copy of your cover letter in the Professional Workspace google doc link you submitted to Canvas. After noon on Thursday I’ll be printing copies of all your cover letters for workshopping in class on Thursday.
There will be no class the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Work on the portfolio outlined above. We’ll peer review these portfolio sites in class on the Tuesday after the Thanksgiving break. We will also do course evaluations that day–since this is such a small class, it would be great if everyone could be there!
