Building a web portfolio is more difficult than I thought. It isn’t easy putting together a set of pages and links that say, “Hey, here’s me online!” The art of balancing interests, personality, and professionalism is an ongoing practice and one I’ll have to keep honing going forward.
As usual, the crucial step for me was the first one: crafting the overarching themes of my portfolio. During the peer review assignments, I’ve observed my peers effectively establishing themes, which contribute to coherence and clarity overall. This strategy helped define my approach to building a portfolio.
Due to the team-knit/culture-fit perspectives of employers and potential team members in my field, I aim to underscore my personality and motivating passions in my web portfolio. Similar to the “Hey, here’s me!” perspective, my goal is to provide a window into my personality, interests, and trajectory.
Defining the theme of my web portfolio laid the groundwork for the rest of the process. Having an overall aim in mind focused my efforts and expedited decision-making. As a result, I feel that my web portfolio provides an authentic, genuine reflection of my personality and what it might be like to work on a team together.
Looking forward, this web portfolio seems like a solid foundation for an online professional presence. The next step might be to build an interactive personal website to supplement this presence, retaining the themes set forth in my portfolio. Building a personal website will utilize and expand on communication and computer science lessons learned, while providing experiences relevant to my desired career path. I will need to continue molding my ideas for uniqueness, but I expect the perspectives gleaned from English 301 will help my approaches to such a project.