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Assessing your portfolio
Content Review
Do a content assessment - what might you need to add or subtract to your portfolio? Develop a list of 3-5 things you need to do. Set a goal for today and a deadline to review.
Who is your audience? How can you reach them?
Does your portfolio reflect your skills and your career goals?
Does your home page look professional and engaging? Is it a reflection of you and your skills? Have you linked visual and verbal?
Are your portfolio items well-curated? They should give me a sense of what you can do and who you are.
Have you eliminated phrases like JMC 104 / JMC 300?
Interface / User Experience Review
Is your site easy to navigate? Do I understand how to find your content and can easily determine where to go and get around? (Or is everything dumped in one tab.)
Have you introduced each portfolio item with a brief paragraph explaining the project and what you learned?
Can I get in touch with you?
Skill Review
What wordpress skills do you need to review?
At this point you should be able to categorize posts, edit your menu, use read more tags.
Content Audit
You have reviewed the content already in your portfolio, now is time to add content.
What do you need for this class?
Make sure you understand the course rubric and content requirements
What do you need for job/internship?
- Visit Journalism Career Center or other job site
- Analyze a job lising
- How can you show these skills in your portfolio?
Editing your portfolio
After you've completed your assessment, you are ready to edit. Here are some helpful videos to get you going:
Updating Menus
Customization
Categories and Posts
Getting a portfolio review
By the time you are a junior/senior you need to think about having a portfolio review from someone in your field. This may be a mentor or someone you interned for. This should be someone in the industry. If you can't think of anyone, use networking and LinkedIn connections to help meet someone.
You should share with them what your career goals are and ask them to look at specific parts of your portfolio OR to examine certain aspects. (Don't just send a link and ask what do you think?)