For my second Career Services event, I chose to listen in on the webinar offered on creating a digital portfolio. While I have always taken care of my online presence and in particular my resumé, this presentation offered me a new perspective in bringing my work online, translating it into a truly living documentation of my accomplishments. Most importantly, I saw how to put together a website which allows prospective employers to cycle quickly through my entire body of work.
My portfolio includes everything from photography to news articles to editorials to panel discussion moderation to research papers to policy papers to curation to art installation. Therefore, in order to even give my work some semblance of order requires a truly multimedia platform. Through the webinar, I came to understand how best to market myself in order to promote a variety of skills and bodies of work. Especially as I end my internship at a contemporary art museum and my work at student-news publication, I must be certain to properly document the work I performed at each business. In order to ensure such jobs were worth my time, I need to use them to my advantage in pursuing future endeavors.
This digital portfolio sounds definitely useful and I think is a great idea to start it now at the end of the internship so we don’t miss to important work and accomplishments. I definitely want to learn how to put together a website to show all the work.
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to do a digital portfolio. I know that I looked into it on a personal basis; however, I never went to any webinar or seminar regarding it. Digital portfolios are becoming more and more popular as time goes on. A portfolio is a great way of networking and keeping track of your accomplishments. Someday I hope to create a digital portfolio in order to keep track of my accomplishments for future resumes.
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