Job-Ready Software Engineering / 08
Portfolio, interviews, and your next opportunity
40 minutes · Developers and QA professionals
Turn practice into evidence
Make your work easy to believe
A portfolio project answers five questions
- What problem?
- Who was it for?
- What decisions?
- How tested?
- What next?
README structure
- Problem and goal
- Feature overview
- Architecture
- Setup
- Tests
- Limitations
- Screenshots
- Next improvements
Turn work into a STAR story
- Situation
- Task
- Action
- Result
Three stories to prepare
- A bug or failure
- A collaboration or review
- A technical trade-off
Demo: turn one artifact into an answer
Tell me about a difficult bug.
Pause: build your 30-day plan
- Two targeted applications each week
- Two networking messages
- One portfolio improvement
- One interview practice session
Your final package
- Published project
- Strong README
- Three STAR stories
- Updated résumé and LinkedIn
- Target-role list
- 30-day plan
Next step
Make the artifact.
Publish your work, then continue to the next lesson.