How to Transition Your Portfolio to Work You Really Want

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

How do I know when to transition my portfolio? It's a classic question because it's a paradox. If you want to get hired, press pause on the stuff that's not absolutely crucial. And go make the stuff you want to get hired to create.

A convoluted and broad portfolio does not allow you to make a name for yourself. So build a portfolio with your spare time, money and energy to get the work you really want.

A few other keys:

> Market yourself as the thing you want to be, not the thing that's paying the bills right now

> Your portfolio is constantly evolving. It's okay to put it out there without it being perfect. Perfectionism is a major block

> How can you put more of YOU in your photos, work, business etc. What is your unique upbringing, perspective, or interests? Bring all that good stuff into the next phase of your portfolio

The bottom line: your portfolio has to look like the work you want to do.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey all with up, it's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. Great show in store for you today. It's a micro show. It is a question from my series called The Daily Creative, where I take questions. And this particular one is from a chap named Ben Lou. And Ben asks what I think is a fascinating critical question.
0:24.6	And that is how to transition your portfolio toward work that you really want to do.
0:32.0	Now, I think the same can be said, whether you identify as a creator or an entrepreneur,
0:36.2	and this is your portfolio is a leatherbound book
0:40.8	or your portfolio is a series of projects you worked on or maybe it's even a resume. I like
0:46.1	the idea of a portfolio versus a resume. But my answer rather to Ben's question, I think is
0:53.9	the, if it's not the most popular
0:58.3	question I get, it is certainly one of them. And because we all want to know, wait, if we
1:03.8	want to transition to something new where we have no experience, how do we do that? How do we
1:07.0	get hired for a job where we have no experience? How do we, again, whether you're a designer, a photographer, or you're trying to transition in careers, I think this is a critical question, and I'm not going to lie.
1:20.5	I really like my answer here to Ben, and I hope you do too.
1:23.9	So I'm going to get out of the way and let you enjoy this episode of The Daily Creative
1:27.5	where I answer Ben-Loo's question about transitioning your portfolio to work you want to do.
1:35.0	Hey, Chase. My name is Ben-Loo. My Instagram and handle is The Ben-LU-W.
1:40.6	To give some context for my question, I'm shooting an assignment for an outdoor company called
1:46.5	The Climb in Denali National Park this coming August.
1:48.7	Cool.
1:49.7	But my struggle or my challenge is that I'm trying to do photography full-time and so
1:55.9	I have like weddings and everything else in my portfolio.
1:59.3	And outdoor industry is where I want to be, where I want to go.
2:02.9	And I'm just wondering, man, I wonder what will I know how to transition my portfolio
2:07.9	to just highlight the outdoor stuff because I'm so dependent on all these other things
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