Web folios are becoming increasingly more popular as a way to present oneself professionally. Web folios allow its creators to show much more of themselves than a normal resume would. Creators have the freedom to show off their creativity and market themselves with a lot more interesting contents that can help capture potential employers’ attention.
For my current web folio, I am following the ENG 301 instructions in providing the relevant reflections blogs, introduction, biography, application package and Linkedin Profile. Upon completion of the course, I will definitely be changing a lot the aspects to concentrate the web folio to show case my professional skills, projects and my personality. I have already included some illustrations and previews of my projects and achievements on the introduction page and have included a project’s page that contains more detailed documents and projects I have done. I believe providing physical documents of my research poster and abstracts can really strengthen my application and allows visitors of my page to see real examples of my work. As I will be pursuing a second degree in computer science following my graduation, I have started working on some personal projects related to coding. I will be posting the personal projects I have completed on my projects page and show my improvements as a software engineer through these projects. I will also be taking advantage of the best works page to showcase my best projects when I have done enough. The blog page will mainly be used for displaying my personality and interests. Like in ENG 301, I will write reflections blogs on what I learned through my projects and critique myself in the process. My biography page will change as well as I begin to accumulate more experience and become interested in the different things. I really enjoyed personalizing my web folio with visuals, hyperlinks and documents as it really allowed me to show off my creativity and make my web folio unique. I will definitely continue to use these strategies to make my web folio as attractive and as interesting as possible in the future.
Overall, I enjoyed working on my web folio and I am happy with what I have created. I feel confident that I will be able to make the necessary changes to my web folio to suit my professional interest in the future.