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Perfman HR- Creating and Using a Portfolio

Business & Careers
by Atin Dasgupta on

Portfolio of an employeePortfolio of an employee

Architects have them. Artists have them. Why shouldn’t you?

A portfolio is a visual display of your work, which lends itself to storytelling. Portfolios are typically either narrow three-ring notebooks with acetate jackets for each page or loose acetate-jacketed sheets carried in an 8- by 12-inch leather folder. The latter is handy because it also provides space for carrying resumes and a notepad.
Useful portfolio materials include:

• Thank-you or testimonial letters you have received.
• Examples of past creative work.
• New work outlining important concepts you wish to discuss or results of research you have done.
When do you bring out your portfolio? At any point in the interview where you think examples will help you make a point or support your case.

Using Your Brief Presentation

Your brief presentation, if done well, will give you immediate credibility, enabling you to go beyond what most people achieve in a first interview. Therefore, it’s important to practice it and use it. As we have pointed out, you don’t want to fight the predefined structure of most screening interviews. Of course, you won’t need to if you remember that your 2-minute presentation is a great answer to one of the predictable first questions, usually some variation on “Tell me about yourself.”
In interviews with a hiring manager or later interviews with members of the work group, it’s usually easy to work in your 2-minute presentation right after the small talk. By doing so, you will establish who you are and what your strengths and goals are within the first 5 to 10 minutes, and the rest of the interview can focus on the position, the company’s needs and expectations, and why you believe you are qualified to do the job. If you don’t provide this information up front, it’s likely that you’ll spend much or all of the interview answering questions. The interview will end with you still in contention, perhaps, but in no better position than candidates two, three, and four.

Sonal Aurora is director and co-founder of Executive Search Firm India. Perfman HR is a premier HR Consulting Company Founded in Mumbai, India. We are an inventive and dynamic Human Resource Company specializing in Executive Search, Recruitments, Training, Learning & HR Solutions.

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