According to Luciana Pereira (Sr. HR), before you decide to build or update your portfolio: “Your portfolio should represent where you want to go, not just where you are, let alone where you’ve been.”
A few months ago, I started to mentor a few newbie Product Owner (PO) who are still suffering to find their next challenge, and I kept listening to the same old complaints that I had when I was starting my career.
So, I joined forces with Luciana Pereira, a fantastic HR professional, seasonal and tech-savvy for her realm, to build an open-portfolio template. It is not a no-code experience, however we build in a way that no code-knowledge is required.
Where does everyone go wrong? We chatted with more than twenty HR recruiters to understand their perceptions. A few learnings:
- Portfolios with too many sparkles and BS information;
- Keep simple, tell a short story.
- How can I trust your information? Social proof is the way.
- What are you looking for next?
- How can I sell you to the hiring manager?
- We were getting great information about the person recruiter they are looking for, how to sell, how competitive this market is, etc.
We had two main insights:
- Product Managers don’t treat themselves as a PRODUCT.
- It is your first sell for a recruiter. They are likely not to read your entire portfolio, but they are more likely to read something than the hiring manager.
OpenPortfolio