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The IT job market is tough, especially for developers. Creating a developer portfolio is crucial for standing out to hiring managers. Tips for creating a portfolio are shared in the post.

The IT job market is tough right now. What are your best tips to create a developer portfolio ?

The job market for developers was very tough in 2023.

What are your best tips to create a developer portfolio ?

I want to share a different perspective. The emphasis on developers’ portfolios as the be-all and end-all is a flawed narrative. In reality, a portfolio doesn’t always accurately reflect a developer’s true capabilities or their ability to work within a team and adapt to new challenges.
It also marginalizes those who have spent their time contributing to private projects or proprietary code, which can’t be showcased.
And in most cases - it is just a question of whether the hiring manager would even be interested in lookig at your portfolio…

White people are 71% of the US and account for 63-68% of IT work.
Black people account for ~14% of the country and comprise 14.8% of IT workers.
Asian Americans comprise 7% of the country and account for 5-14% of IT workers.
<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech</a>
Just because Meta, CNN and the Washington Post made it cool to be selectively racist towards certain races, doesnt mean you actually should do it.
You can have diversity without implicitly picking a race to harbor disdain towards. After all, your disdain is subsequently levied towards strangers who remind you of…other strangers…based on genetic happenstance.
You can semantically justify it however you want but its nothing more than bigotry.
Further, if you want to obsess over the genetic happenstance of the rest of the world, the only relevance race has to a working software product is if you want to qualify the developers based on their race. This is a joke.

<a href="https://www.scheir.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.scheir.eu/</a>
Here is my portfolio :)