What to include

You learned that a portfolio represents your skills and showcases some of your previous projects to potential employers. Keep your portfolio:

• Personal: Show who you are, what interests you, and what is important to you.
• Simple: Display your work with easy navigation and without cluttered pages.
• Relevant: Match your work to the skills included in the job descriptions.
• Presentable: Emphasize quality in the samples you show.
• Unique: Showcase your own work; cite sources of content to avoid plagiarism.

This means that when discussing the case studies in your portfolio, it's helpful to focus on your process and not just your results.

They probably don't need to know the exact functions we performed on our data set, but they might be interested in knowing how we chose the right tools and what steps we took to make sure our data was clean and useful.

Evaluate your portfolio

Now it’s time to evaluate your portfolio. Select a portfolio piece to review and open it. Next, use the questions below as suggestions to help you review your work. As you answer each question, you will identify areas for improvement. When you're done, you can make these changes to improve your portfolio.

• Is there anything missing? Are you missing steps in your projects, or details in your descriptions?
• Is there too much info?
• Is there anything you think you shouldn’t include?
• Is your portfolio hosted on the most appropriate platform?

The interview process