From the course: Preparing to Interview for a Creative Role

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Building a creative portfolio

Building a creative portfolio

From the course: Preparing to Interview for a Creative Role

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Building a creative portfolio

- If you want a job in the creative space, you need a portfolio. Your credentials and references will help seal the deal, but employers or clients are going to want proof of your capabilities. An essential portfolio is going to really showcase your work, and I always suggest take a look at other people. There are a wealth of sites available online where you can explore portfolios of other successful professionals. This'll give you good idea of what works. With your portfolio, you want to show diversity. So it's important that even if you only work on certain types of projects at your current job, that you have a variety of work samples in there. You can build out this variety through many different techniques. Ideally, the work will come from real world clients. So you might be thinking, how do I land real clients if I don't yet have a job? Or if I'm working at one place, how could I build out diversity? Well, offer to…

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