There are 2 main reasons to build a portfolio:
- It's a fantastic way to stay strong in case you don't have any experience
- It can attract several thousand people to your profile in less than a day, and get a job offer.
I use to have little to no experience in self-driving cars and Computer Vision. Only one thing saved me: Building a Portfolio and a strategy around this.
Instantly, I was able to:
- Create a series of personal projects
- Brand them as experience
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Interest recruiters and technical teams enough to get an interview, and later, my dream job.
Later, I realized my strategy also attracted readers, engineers, and recruiters who were finding my articles through Google and Medium. I got dozens of job offers just using this strategy.
And now, you can too: