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A Guide On How To Create A Great Online Career Portfolio

By Virginia Murray


In time and age, most employers are increasingly shifting from the use of paper. For this reason, every professional is encouraged to build an online profile to make it easy for potential employers to find them. This guide comes to offer you top-notch secrets on how to build a great online career portfolio that can secure you your dream job.

You should draft your resume with sections that contain your personal information, details of your scholarly accreditations and expert certifications and work experience. Incorporate areas of interests and the companies you have worked with and ensure that the information you provide is precise and irrefutable. This includes the positions you have held and for how long. In addition, arrange this information form the latest to the oldest.

Determine how you want your profile to appear on the internet. Basically, this should be a page that has a menu that is connected to sections that contain specific information about you. For example, you could have the Work Experience button linked to the section of your profile that contains the details of your previous jobs. The appearance of your profile should be simple, predictable and easy to navigate through. This way, recruiters will not spend a lot of time searching for your information.

There are plenty of sites that you could use to build a great profile page. Therefore, it is advisable to sample the options that are available before picking any specific site. You can opt to sign for a free account or subscribe for a paid plan. Each of these plans is different in that with free accounts you have limited options to network with other users while paid accounts allow you to get advanced features such as reports on job applications.

Alternatively, you can opt to create a single page website with your domain name. The challenge here is that you will need to come up with the domain name and look for a suitable hosting company. Moreover, since your site is not a platform that allows people to sign up, it will not be possible to interact with other professionals on the same site. However, you will be free to dictate how your profile will look like.

Choose what include on your profile carefully. For instance, when it comes to your professional credentials, consider uploading your certificates. This can be done by scanning the documents and creating pdf versions of the scans. Make sure that the documents are clear and legible.

When it comes to your professional experience, consider using real photos and short videos of the projects you have created. It important to include links to these projects so that your audience can verify if they so wish. This can be a link to customer website or names of the projects and contact persons.

Consider including testimonials from former employers. Moreover, make sure that your content is accurate and verifiable. Therefore proofread your content for grammar and spelling errors.




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