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title: "The IT job market is tough right now. What are your best tips to create a developer portfolio ?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-it-job-market-is-tough-right-now-what-are-your-best-tips-to-create-a-developer-portfolio--lzf1kxwqw
source_url: https://dev.to/jmfayard/show-your-work-3hpg
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2024-01-27T05:42:30.032Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z
tags: ["career", "github"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 26
comments: 3
language: en
---

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

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 2 min read · 26 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

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.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://dev.to/jmfayard/show-your-work-3hpg>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@jamescooper** · 3 upvotes

> 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..

**@1026x1026** · 0 upvotes

> 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.
>
> https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech
>
> 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...

**@scheir** · 0 upvotes

> https://www.scheir.eu/
>
> Here is my portfolio :)

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