Career Expert Reviews Junior Web Developer Portfolios

Are these 3 Junior web developers job-ready? What are the positive things you should strive to achieve in your own portfolio? What should you avoid? In this video, Developer and Host of The Scrimba Podast, @CodeCast from Scrimba explores all.

00:00 Intro
01:07 Chinh
08:51 Jacob
12:57 Ryan
17:39 Outro

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[ryanregiste]

Thank you for the site review Alex, I'll be making some changes for sure!

Some background on the site:
The site is designed by NevFlynn and I built it from scratch in vanilla JS. I set out to build a personal site/portfolio 2 months into learning how to code. At the time I didn't have any projects I wanted to showcase, so I decided to focus on building widgets around my personality and hobbies (with the overall site demonstrating my coding abilities), and to add project widgets/blog posts etc over time.

I haven't actually updated the site since February haha, but I'll get on that - especially as my job hunt intensifies!

[cherryfuchs]

Wow, this was refreshing! I thought this would be just an ordinary portfolio review video, but you really tried to give a lot of value here - I appreciate that! Your optimism is also very nice to see. Thank you for being such an inspiration!

[berad]

Jacob could write "I design, develop, and analyze data" if he's not keen on ditching the "D-D-D." Just my take as a copywriter-turned-web developer! Great video

[LuisReyes-zsuk]

More of these, please! Thanks so much!

[bagery]

Wow, while not perfect, they all still put mine to shame! I've got some work to do. Good chat

[tonydataiga]

Downunder, but it could be a really cool play on words, since the DOW change to DOM and she's rendered them onto the DOM!

[BGNewsReporter]

For the first one, for most I'd say the city "Sydney" gives away immediately that it is Australia, but being from "Down Under" myself I even found it incredibly hard catch what it said. Took me a few seconds - which a potential employer won't want to work out. It's cool, but would definitely change it for a portfolio.

[flyinghead]

I have no Web Design knowledge, and my Designs are just awful. Why does a Web Developer Junior have to have such unbelivable good looking designs? How can I get a job without Designing beautiful Designs but having good knowledge in programing?

[alirabet]

Hi Alex, Thank for giving useful portfolios examples. I see Chinh invest buying couples of domains for her live project demo. Is there any affordable or free options hosting to host a live project?

[TheKorejen]

yeah, I was trying to read "downunder" backwards until I realised what it was :D

[yaredhaile]

yes alex I have been coding for about 4 months now even though i'm not ready for junior job can you keep making this? maybe i'll submit my portfolio in the next 6 months

[LeGhostX]

I loved this video. I found it very useful!

[candyCode]

if Jacob doesn't implement your copy immediately, he's missing out on a fantastic value proposition!

[mykalimba]

11:50 There are several different node packages available that generate QR codes from a string source. It's nearly trivial to do this.

[Rantalytics]

can we do a tutorial on ryan's site?

[northisdead]

"Junior Web Developer" -> "I teach design, code, and analyze great chunks of data"? Yeah right.

[humerasad]

4:58 As a fresher, I haven't worked with anyone so far; which project should I add now to my portfolio?

[pedromndias]

The word says "Downunder"! pretty cool, tho it took me a few seconds.

[fggg]

That word is DOWN UNDER - I.e. Australia I got it first time

[markopolo]

im making one rn maybe it will be done and ill post it if you do more