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Michael Newman
39,508 PointsFront-End Portfolio Advice
I'm thinking about making my first online portfolio site and I'm unsure of what to put in it to market myself for a front-end development job. Would employers be looking for site-designs and layouts, applications, or something else I'm forgetting?
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John Bryan
3,705 PointsHi Michael,
When I look for prospective team members for our Front End team where I work I typically look for a few things. The first is some sort of example of work (actual coded work, not just a Photoshop mock up), this can be a portfolio website or just links to websites/apps/etc. that a person has built or helped to build/design. The more quality examples that showcase your skills, the better. The next thing I look for is originality in work - pretty much making sure someone just didn't copy someone else's entire portfolio website and just change the text/images. Then I look for some personality, drive, and desire to learn and grow and be great!
Something that also helps is creating areas for your work to be collected and shown besides a portfolio website. Behance is great for this as well as Dribbble or a similar site where you can display logo's, websites, or other things you have created.
Hope this helps!
Navid Mirzaie Milani
6,274 PointsNavid Mirzaie Milani
6,274 PointsYou should place everything you made so far and what makes you proud. Employers finding it important that you support your own work. Most important thing is to focus your self on one point. So in your case show that you're a great javascript developer / graphic designer etc, show code examples, place a explanation on each project how you have tackled problems.
Good luck!