everyone knows you're a student
- we look for potential & your ability to talk about it / present yourself
easy to tell when people are overcompensating
- really about the storytelling
- get really lost when you're reading through something that's trying to do too much
what she looks for in a portfolio:
- take a step back
- don't look at other people's portfolio bc you start to lose your voice & it's easy to tell when you don't sound like yourself
- "i'm passionate about coffee" - is there anything about yourself?
curate your work!!!
different presentations for different contexts:
- in person: who are you talking to? how much time do you have? what are you trying to get through walkthrough
- career fair: 5 minutes to talk to user problem, exactly what i did & final solution