This article was written by Atiqah Mustafa, a Community Engagement Intern.
A digital portfolio helps an individual with the opportunity to reflect on their project, goals and helps track their growth over time while also presenting their craft to the potential audience online. The program was a 3 hours virtual workshop using a beginner-friendly free website platform as well as a sharing session on the importance of a digital portfolio and tips on arranging a portfolio. The participants were also given a tutorial on building an online portfolio which is dedicated to showcasing various form of work like tech innovation, content creation, illustration, software skills or anything in between.
The competition for great jobs is always intense among fresh graduates and experienced job seekers. Hence, young talents especially university students and fresh graduates from various backgrounds and specialties are encouraged to increase their online presence thereby leaves a good first impression on job seekers. A total number of 42 attendees who took part in the workshop consists of students from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), University Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and Community colleges.
The instructor for the workshop is Kevin Wong, a Full Stack Designer from Forest Interactive. He started with sharing about his career journey and giving some inspiration to the participant as an experienced employee. He also shared some insightful topics such as the purpose of a portfolio, portfolio building tips and problem solving with storytelling.
After the sharing session, we proceed with the portfolio building tutorial. It is important to use a beginner-friendly website builder because we want to encourage the non-tech students to have an exposure to using a website builder tool. Therefore, he recommends using the Notion software platform (https://www.notion.so/), which is a content driven and easy editable free website. Throughout the tutorial, he did a walk-through of the platform with the participants on the website functions while applying a basic formula tip on creating various portfolio sections like the title, summary and body content. The session got more engaging when some of the participants shared a snapshot of their portfolio from the website.
Towards the end of the session, the participants received some advice as well as helpful tips that is related to improving resumes and portfolios. We also had a Q&A session with the participants about the portfolio content, assessment’s contribution, resume and others. We hope that this workshop will help the participants to have an increased confidence as well as to gain better quality of employment.
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