As far as professional portfolios go I’m pretty happy with my own. That sounds arrogant of me to admit until I tack on that I don’t have a lot of experience browsing through the professional portfolios of, well, professionals or in building my own. As a new experience to me, at this particular point in time this is my best version of a professional portfolio. I am proud of it as an enormous first step.
First, a rundown of what I like. The “Home” page gives my name and title, but the background photograph speaks out as well. All of the photographs on the site were taken by yours truly and they are meant to speak to life on the NorthCoast and among the Redwoods. As the Toyon is a NorthCoast journal, I wanted to highlight this with somewhat subtlety. The set-up of my portfolio makes it very easy to manage, thus approachable. However, it is the blog that I’m most happy about. I’ve been good about keeping it up to date and personalizing my responses enough to keep within the bounds of professionalism yet hold onto my distinctive voice. This leads me to looking it over with a critical eye and admitting where I come up short. To help, I looked at one of the professional portfolios provided to us students in the ENG 460 course for comparison. The professional portfolio I looked at belongs to a recent graduate whom worked as a reporter for their university and gained editorial experience from an internship (http://jasmineschillinger.weebly.com). I thought it best to look at someone whom is only just down the line from where I am, a goal within sight. The first glaring oversight is that I need to make a page for my resume. There’s the option of providing a link for a quick download of my resume or a suggestion to contact me for a copy of it. I’d rather go with the latter as it provides the opportunity for a line of communication. The “About Me” page needs to be redone. It shoots out tidbits of information without explaining what I want to accomplish or what I have accomplished. I’m also thinking of changing some of the photograph too, at least the background on the “Home” page so that the small text can be read more clearly.
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