When I first graduated, I took all of the interesting things I had made over the years in my spare time (non school work material: a crappy threads library in C, a packet injector for an exotic network protocol, a patch to the linux kernel that got committed, etc) and put them on a web page and made sure people looked at it.
It was instrumental to help get me a job early in my career. I had no contacts and I do not interview well at all.
However, such portfolios need to be kept current with newer and better code. I've discovered that in my most recent job search, it did not help so much because most of the code is stagnant.
It was instrumental to help get me a job early in my career. I had no contacts and I do not interview well at all.
However, such portfolios need to be kept current with newer and better code. I've discovered that in my most recent job search, it did not help so much because most of the code is stagnant.