RE: FN-FORUM: Portfolio

date posted 7th January 2006 00:33

Spend a month putting together a good page about yourself and some examples
of any design / development work you have genuinely built to date.

Call your local charitable organisations / community groups / primary school
and ask if they would be interested in a free website and ongoing support,
and would be happy to help get it done ASAP.

By the end of the month you could have a nice charitable site built, and a
beautiful fully working portfolio site.

Then apply for a couple of jobs. You will only get out what you put in.

There are lots of people on this list who could probably do with some
assistance in a multitude of design and development related tasks. So why
not offer your services for free for a little while?

Ultimately you will need experience and a successful portfolio before you
can even begin considering earning money. In fact expect the process of
developing contacts and profitable working methods to take at a year at the
very minimum. Yes the industry is very hard to get in to at the moment, like
all of the creative industries and much of the IT sector as a whole. It is
over saturated, to a large extent with amateurs who are not up to the job.

Join up with local designers and developers to see if you can play a role in
some of the work they are already doing, allowing you to put your foot in
the door with regard to prospective clients.

We all make mistakes mate. Good luck for the future. At least a prospective
employer didn't spot this?

Best Regards,
Richard.

InspireBox
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