A portfolio for your internship or job application

What really happens to your link

You send an e-mail with your portfolio. On the other end someone opens the link on a phone, between two meetings, and scrolls. Within a minute there is a feeling: interesting or not. Everything you read below serves that one moment.

One portfolio, adjusted per application

You do not need ten portfolios. You need one portfolio whose order you can change:

• The project that most resembles the company's work goes first.

• Projects that do not fit this application can be hidden temporarily.

• The about-me text names where you want to go, and that matches the vacancy.

In Folyra you set the order by dragging and switch projects on or off without deleting them.

What an internship supervisor wants to see

An internship supervisor is not looking for a finished professional. They are looking for someone who:

• can learn — show process and reflection;

• can work independently — name what you decided yourself;

• communicates — your case study is your first piece of work for them;

• fits the studio — show work in the direction they work in.

A group project in which you say exactly what your part was scores higher than a solo project without a story.

What a recruiter wants to see

• Quick proof. Within one scroll it has to be clear what you make and at what level.

• Relevance. Ten posters when the vacancy is about interface design is a mismatch.

• Results. A number, a reaction from the client, a live link.

• Contact. Name, e-mail, maybe phone — visible, not hidden in a form.

Sharing the link

• Put the link in the e-mail itself, not only in your CV PDF.

• Test it on a phone while logged out.

• Use an address you can say out loud in an interview: yourname.folyra.nl instead of a string of digits.

• Add one sentence: "The second project, the app for X, is closest to what you do."

The interview

Bring your portfolio on a laptop or tablet and open it before you walk in. Pick two projects in advance you can talk about for five minutes: the brief, a decision, a moment that went wrong, what you learned. That is the whole interview.

What to check beforehand

1. Every project page answers: what, for whom, what did I do, what came out of it.

2. No image with a browser bar, no blurry photos.

3. About me: three to five sentences, a photo, contact.

4. The link opens on a phone within two seconds.

5. There is no work in it you hope they will not ask about.