As a Leader in Tech, Here's How I Land My Favorite Gigs—Using Journo Portfolio

As a Leader in Tech, Here's How I Land My Favorite Gigs—Using Journo Portfolio

Whether you’re looking to land your dream job, or if you want more high profile companies to notice you, you’ll need a career portfolio too succeed. However, not just any portfolio will do. In this blog post, I'll share why Journo Portfolio has been and continues to be my sure shot way of landing the best jobs on the market.

The reasons why you need a career portfolio are obvious. So I won’t rehash that part. Which begs the question, what type of portfolio do you need to position you as an attractive hire among the best of the best companies? Well, for starters, you’ll need a portfolio that recruiters and executive hiring managers can easily navigate. Journo Portfolio offers a clear, navigable interface that most other online portfolios simply don’t. And here’s how you can leverage that to move ahead of your competitors in the field.

Today I serve as the Marketing Advisor to InnovatorMD , a med-tech company that hosts the world’s largest, annual physician-innovation conferences. I also help with campaigns and communications projects at Internet Archive—the world's largest digital library. A global organization devoted to making "Universal Knowledge Accessible to Everyone".

Before landing these two roles, over the years, I racked up my share of interviews with small companies and the big ones such as JetBlue, Google, Dropbox, and others. Also landing a sweet contract with frog, the world’s #1 innovative design company . From those experiences, I learned a few things about what top companies look for in a portfolio—especially in the tech or creative design industry. Which is why I made the decision to make Journo Portfolio the place to house my portfolio. Here are a few reasons why…

Sure, you can have designed a sleek interface for a mobile app company; but that doesn’t explain how you moved from the creative brief to the completion of that entire design. Only the written word can explain the processes and details in-between those lines. To that end, Journo Portfolio offers a smart interface that displays your writings and your designs in ways that recruiters and executive hiring managers can appreciate. That alone can put your feet in the door before having an actual interview. But there’s more.

One other thing to note is, recruiters and hiring personnel typically aren't experts in the field you may be applying in. For instance, if you're applying for a role as Social Media Manager, the recruiter whom receives your resume may not be experienced in social media management. So how does a recruiter know if your portfolio is worth passing along to the real experts?

Though a recruiter may not be an expert at the job you're applying for, most recruiters have a sense of style when it comes to portfolios that grab their attention.

The moment they land on your portfolio home page, they'll know whether or not their client or the hiring manager will approve of your work. So before you're in position to win-over the hiring manager, in most cases, you must first win-over the recruiter. To do that, you need a portfolio that presents your value in an organized way which recruiters can easily navigate.

With so much experience in the tech industry, I can tell you that recruiters highly appreciate good user experiences. After-all, recruiters are often busy. If they have to fumble around a bunch of random pages on your portfolio, you'll be out of that job. This goes back to the interface of Journo Portfolio. It allows you to cleanly place content across your portfolio to be found easily. Oh, and there's one more thing I should add...

Aside from all the analytics Journo Portfolio offers its users, Journo Portfolio is exceptionally easy-to-use. Its dashboard provides a quick-and-easy, to add content or make edits on the fly. Many other websites out there have a clunky feel with all the coding, HTML, and back-end stuff. If you're not a web developer, you may spend hours and hours learning to get the most of your standard website. Who has that kind of time when the rent is due?

At the end of the day, we all have different goals and careers we’re pursuing. When it comes down to it, we all are going to do what we believe is best when it comes to how we present ourselves. As one who has high-profile experience in positions across BIG tech, creative marketing, and global advocacy, I recommend job seekers strike a balance between visual portfolio design and smooth readability. In my opinion, Journo Portfolio gives you that balance, the moment you login.