Good question, I don’t really know either. Tbh if anyone even finds their way to this site I’d be kinda surprised.
Everyone has portfolio sites these days, showing off past work and their skills. The emergence of these is of course a response to job requirements getting longer and the expectation that a resume fits in a standard 8.5×11.
That being said, I think we really missed the forest for the trees on what a portfolio site can accomplish. For decades free agent workers have been confided to single-pagers, because of this, they’ve had to sort an extremely complex life descending on the axis of perceived ‘importance’ to that job. As portfolio sites allow for deep dives into projects, I still continue to see the same sort and sample method used as sites focus on a few topics deeply and act as if their life ends there.
The ‘resume’ as we know it is perceived as a corpo-speak, left-brained, NPC regurgitation of some set of experiences you had that you think the person reading it is going to see as something that maps to the job. Maybe there are highly specialized industries where this makes sense but I think that is the exception rather than the rule.
The ‘resume’ we should strive for shouldn’t be for the person reading it, it should be for the person building it. My university career planning advisor would probably have an aneurysm if she heard me say that, but I, respectfully, think the very existence of that position is fucking stupid and a symptom of a greater issue – the emergent industry of economic tollbooth’ing.
I will die a fiery death before I ever put the word’s Cross-functional next to my name. As the philosopher Kanye West once said
So what is this site? It’s whatever I want it to be.
- it’s me showing off my underdeveloped skillset
- it’s me building in public (lol)
- it’s me forcing myself to think through a thought before I allow myself to make an opinion on it
- it’s my endless stream of consciousness
But above all else, it’s me.
Welcome to the void
