HOW TO MAKE A PORTFOLIO
Hello forthcoming graduates!
We are encouraging you to try and check this convenient way in finding right path of your career, Online Portfolio.
A new way of introducing your profile in various companies and employers. this will be helpful in preparing your future career after graduation. It is important to settle all your decisions to grab as early all the necessary opportunities. OP is now here to serves you through fastest, easiest and most convenient process in finding good opportunities. start your career by creating and designing your own portfolio.
As you continue reading, we will be positing some tips and information in customizing an effective Online Portfolio. To give you hints of what OP is, it'll be divided into three profiles which are home, about me and works.
Home is the first thing sees and appears whenever companies are looking for applicants. the creativity in customizing your layout of works and master piece is very crucial because it will appears attractive to different companies. It's like selling your self in terms of skills, past experiences, achievements and works through internet.
Online Portfolio is the trending usage of most applicants to find jobs. Here in OP you don't need to look for a job and spend a lot of time in surfing the web to have career but this time, job will comes to you.
This is a website wherein you can showcase all your important credentials in school as well as your different experiences and achievements in your past works. The different companies could easily viewed your profile and they can easily contact you due that all information about your selves are indicated in your portfolio. Here are some tips to create an effective portfolio:
1. Know your objectives. Know your objectives for creating an online portfolio. Is it to get new clients, land a job, provide a solution, network, or to build reputation? Define yourself—what kind of designer are you? What’s your main focus? (Arandilla 2011
2. Narrow your scope. A common mistake most graphic designers and freelancers make is to try to impress clients by showing off as much work as they can. This can lead to a cluttered and disorganized online portfolio. The goal is to simplify. You do not need to bombard your clients with too many graphics or information. You just need them to see a clear message. Focus on a specialization. (Arandilla 2011)
3. Use the ‘About Me’ page to your advantage. The ‘About Me’ page is where you promote yourself. Give a description of yourself, what you do, what you can offer and contact information including your business number, e-mail address, etc. Do not make the description of yourself too long – 50 words or less will suffice. The shorter and more precise, the better.(Arandilla 2011)
4. Use only the best tools for the job. Your portfolio must be user-friendly and easy to navigate. Navigation must be a primary concern. Use the necessary tools to make the portfolio more fun and entertaining. All the main tabs and important information must be found on the home page. Another is to use SEO to optimize search engine results. Traffic will increase if your website ranks high on search engines. Good SEO will increase client reach and awareness. You will have a constant stream of traffic without doing too much of the work. (Arandilla 2011)
5. Promotion through Social Media. You don’t stop after creating an online portfolio. You need to promote it afterward through social media. Join online design communities like GDF or Estetica to network with fellow graphic designers. Connect with like-minded people through social networking sites like Linked In, Facebook and Twitter. Get involved in social sharing platforms like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious so that others can share and re-post your content. Social marketing is a very powerful tool for promoting yourself.
Start a blog and write quality content. Post valuable insights regularly. By regularly updating your online content, you can maintain a constant following and increase the page rank. Guest blog for other blogs and look for others to guest blog for you. Guest blogging provides fresh angles to a topic and helps drive more traffic to your own site. You can find many willing guest bloggers via networking–it’s easier than you think, you can even find one by just simply looking through your blog comments section(Arandilla 2011)
FREE WEBSITES IN CREATING ONLINE PORTFOLIO:
1. CARBONMADE. A new online portfolio application, Carbonmade. Carbonmade is a simple tool that will help you manage your work and display it on an uncluttered canvas. This space will be dedicated to keeping you up to date on what we're doing, what we have planned, and how to best use Carbonmade.
2. BEHANCE ONLINE PORTFOLIO. The Behance Network is an online portfolio platform for creative professionals across multiple industries, including photography, graphic design, illustration, and fashion. Organizations such as the AIGA, Adweek, ADC, and MTV have partnered with the Behance Network to create galleries of creative work. The company has also been vocal on the topic of crowdsourcing
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PASSION AND PRAGMATISM
by: cakes and coffee
The Philippine society nowadays can be easily defined with the principles directed by a high level of proclivity towards the theory and practice of socio-economic pragmatism. Such manifestation of this socio-economic pragmatism is evident among the newly graduate students: those who just graduated from high school and those who just graduated from college. Statistically speaking, the number of high school students who enter college taking up in-demand courses such as BS Nursing has been increasing in the past years. But ironically, most of these graduates do not end up getting work related to their respective course.
In this situation that our country is facing, what should be done to make the high school graduates realize the importance of taking up courses that define their passion? What course of action should the government take to stop the trend of making incongruent pairing of graduates and their job?
First, the socio-economic state of the Philippines and the job opportunities must be considered: the ratio between job availability and the number of graduates holding in-demand degrees is not balanced. Actually, in the case of those who take BS Nursing, they are not expecting to work in the Philippines; in the first place, they plan to work abroad. Hence, it can be deduced from this fact that those who take in-demand courses are gambling with their future, whether they will be able to work abroad or not.
Second, the Philippine society, which is composed mainly of middle class, is dictated by the theory of pragmatism. As the technocrats and middle class try to empower themselves more, they are easily influenced by the trend of taking up possible opportunities that can give them more money in return. And with this belief comes the faulty realization of the importance of taking up courses where they can “earn more” rather than taking up courses related to their passion.
There are several ways in creating balance with job opportunities and graduates. First, in the coming years, there should be proper guidance given to students who will be taking up college degree by holding public seminars for students which will help them realize the problems and related hindrances regarding the ratio between specific job opportunities and oversaturated undergraduate courses. Second, college graduate should be advised to take up master’s degree to give them more specific field of specialization; thus, opening more opportunities.
Hence, it should be apparent that the society’s canvas for socio-economic and academic principles must be repainted. The theory of pragmatism can be helpful but if utilized in extreme levels, it can create a robotic society bending for consumerism and extreme commercialism, producing retro-active and robotic people working for money.
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