Portfolio Sprint: Panel Discussion

​Panel discussion · Online · ~90 min

​Most designers build a portfolio and then go looking for the job. Do it the other way round.

​If you're a designer, in the first decade of your career, and your applications keep vanishing without a reply, the work itself often isn't what's holding you back.

​Often It's that the portfolio was built before you knew who it was for. This is the first session in the series, and it deals with that first.

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​Hear from 3 people who make hiring calls for designers every week as they discuss:

• ​What the South African market is doing in 2026, and where the openings actually are

• ​Why one clear specialism lands faster than "a bit of everything"

• ​What makes them keep reading a portfolio, and what makes them close it

• ​How a portfolio aimed at a local team differs from one aimed at a remote international one

• ​What tells them someone is good to work with, not just good on a screen

​Come away knowing who you're building for, before you build it.

​For: anyone starting a portfolio, fixing one, or pointing it at different work.

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​The Portfolio Sprint:

​A 9-session series of webinars, workshops and discussions for South African designers looking for work, locally or abroad. You'll start by working out who you are as a designer, turn that into two or three case studies that prove it, and finish with a portfolio site that holds it all together. Come for one session or follow the whole run.