Designing a Portfolio

  While a resume exists to account for your time, a portfolio exists to showcase your work.




  Generally speaking, it involves cherry-picking a few of one's best examples to flatter one's self in a good light. Software engineering, which does well with not going to school because none of the leaders in the field did, might involve touring one's contribution to open-source projects. A mathematician might showcase a small bridge they engineered the geometry of, or any previously-unsolveable problems they managed the proof of (it has happened), or just simple work in systems engineering or network analysis. A painter or woodworker might feature some of their best works.


  By showing work you have done, you give the recipient an idea of what you can do - an irrefutable, undeniable tour of your actual work.


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