The Developer Portfolio Blueprint
Portfolio strategy for job seekers: the right layout, the right projects for your target role, and analytics to see what recruiters do.
Nobody reads your portfolio. They scan it, for seconds, while forty other tabs wait. The course opens with how the hiring process actually works for exactly this reason: once you have seen the filter from the inside, you stop designing your portfolio for an imaginary careful reader and start designing it for the real, hurried one.
Strategy before pixels
The foundation of the course is a reframe: think of yourself as a business. Your portfolio is not a scrapbook of everything you have ever made. It is a storefront with one job, and there is a whole lesson on deciding what message your portfolio sends, because a portfolio that says nothing specific says nothing at all.
Then the design, approached with zero pretension. You learn the layout that works, how to source a design, and my favorite technique in the course: the Frankenstein method, where you assemble your design from proven pieces of sites that already convert instead of staring at a blank canvas pretending to be a designer.
Projects, and proof it works
What you put on the portfolio matters more than the frame around it. The course gets specific by role, with lessons on projects for email developer positions and for front end developer jobs, because the evidence a hiring manager wants differs between those tracks. If email development is your lane, these portfolio examples show the standard you are aiming at.
The last section is the part almost nobody does: instrumentation. You set up Google Analytics on your portfolio, add two more free tools for extra data, and suddenly you know whether recruiters visit, what they look at, and where they leave. You also get the resume builder and job tracking app to run the search itself.
This is the thinking course. When you want to hand-code the site, Build Your Web Developer Portfolio is the build.
What you'll learn
- ✓ Understand how the hiring process actually filters candidates
- ✓ Think of yourself as a business and your portfolio as its storefront
- ✓ Decide what message your portfolio sends before you design anything
- ✓ Choose the best layout and assemble a design from proven pieces
- ✓ Pick the right projects for email developer and front end roles
- ✓ Track portfolio visitors with Google Analytics plus two more free tools
- ✓ Use the resume builder and job tracking app to run your search
Course Curriculum
5 sections
1
Intro
2
Building Your Portfolio
3
Portfolio Projects
4
Conversion Tools
5
Portfolio Reviews
Before you start
- ✓ Some work to show, or the willingness to build the projects the course recommends
Frequently asked questions
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