Having a polished and professional looking portfolio is key to your success in finding work after High School and moving on to developing a career. Download the ROP Portfolio Handbook to use as a guide for creating your own portfolio.
Remember that the best portfolio in class will be sent to the portfolio design competition that ROP has at the end of each school year, your portfolio will compete against other web design classes across the county, and there is a prize.
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| A judge evaluates print portfolio's from past entrants... |
Portfolio Development Assignment:
- Your portfolio must be created in Indesign and final file must be a PDF document
- Use the Pages palette to create multiple pages for your portfolio
- Your portfolio cover, table of contents and all materials should look clean and consistent. Use consistent design style across all aspects of your portfolio
Your Portfolio must contain in this order:
- Cover page with your name, class title, year. Spend some time on this, it should show good design skill and be reflective of your personality
- Table of contents
- Letter of Introduction
- Resume
- Handwritten Job Application
- List of References
- Letter of Recommendation - cannot be from your ROP teacher or a family member
- 3 or more work samples with written explanation about the work, why is it important to your career choice? What did the project entail, what were the challenges and difficulties? Give us details.
How Your Portfolio Is Evaluated:
- Contains required content and format
- Well organized
- Free of grammer problems
- ROP related work samples
- Shows creativity
- Nice appearance
- Shows skill development
- Appropriate for use in job search
- Professional appearance
- Nice presentation
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| Use this as a guide to laying out your own portfolio... |
Ok have fun!
- Mr.W
