I need a little help.
Maybe more than a little. I have been freelancing for the past 13 years and I have decided to look for a full-time position. The problem is I don’t know what hiring managers are looking for in a portfolio anymore. I have thrown together a site with a bunch of my work on it and I need some advice on how to make it look more professional. The link is below. Any advice is welcome.
Showcase your designs on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a great place where recruiters look for talent.
I had to hide my resume on Linkedin from everyone except those to whom I applied.
I kept getting approached en masse by AI recruiters. That alone would not have been so bad despite most of them offering me jobs on the opposite coast of The USA from the one on which I live or even halfway across the world - but the last straw was when I got an email claiming to be from an AI chatbot recruiter telling me to CALL their AI Voice Chat bot to proceed!
I replied with vast amounts of profanity and accusing them of exploiting unemployed and desperate people to train their bot for free. Then asked how much they’d pay me to talk to it.
AI is a great tool and even a fun toy, but if you are as offended as I am by people putting it in roles that actually make decisions about people’s lives (rather than just forward info to a human who can do so for first contact) I would suggest avoiding Linkedin.
If that doesn’t bother you, ignore me.
Just fair warning about what you may be getting into using that site.
But desperate times and all that, so to @Kevlar ; do what you need to do to survive.
Good luck!
LinkedIn’s value depends on the individual. It works well for some but not others, and success relies on identifying legitimate recruiters versus scammers.
Before I semi-retired, I spent years reviewing portfolios and deciding which design applicants to hire. Who to hire varies from one art director and position to another, but I have a good sense for what works and what doesn’t.
The first thing I noticed was the need to improve the kerning on your first page. There is far too much space between the letters k e v. If it were me, I’d tighten it up with inline CSS. Edit: I just noticed you’re using Adobe Portfolio, which doesn’t allow custom coding, so you might want to use a different font or even an SVG file.
However, the biggest problem is the volume of work in your portfolio. A portfolio should showcase only a handful of your very best work, not everything you’ve ever done. A portfolio review will always focus on the best and worst pieces, so grab a knife and start trimming until you’re left with only what you consider your best work.
Very much so! Kind of what I was saying, just less cynical, but as our Resident Pessimist I phrased it as I did.
I know it works for many people, but I just got a bad feeling from the flood of AI stuff that was obviously absurd and used another site more aligned to the work I was seeking (I’m not an Artist by trade, but it’s a hobby and a good side thing and while unemployed looking for work as a Chemist, it’s my best source of income).