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Portfolios, resumes, and getting hired.
Practical, no-fluff guides on building a portfolio that ranks, writing a resume that gets past the bots, and owning your corner of the internet. Written by the team building Folio.
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Resumes
What a modern resume actually looks like in 2026
Not the thumbnail grids. The real thing: what is on the page, what came off it, and why the resumes that get read now look plainer than the ones being sold to you.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
Resume sections: what to include, and what order to put them in
Five sections do almost all the work. This is what belongs in each one, the order to put them in, the optional sections that earn their space, and the ones that are quietly costing you a line.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
The best resume font, and the font size that goes with it
Font advice is the most over-thought part of resume writing. Here is the short version, plus the exact type scale a shipping resume builder uses, so you can copy real numbers instead of guessing.
11 Jul 2026 / 8 min read
Portfolios
The teacher portfolio: what goes in it, and where it should live
Most teaching portfolios are still assembled as a three-ring binder that one panel flips through once and never sees again. The contents are right. The container is wrong.
12 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Personal branding
Board bio template: three finished bios and the format behind them
The good board bio guidance is locked inside a PDF or a .docx you have to hand over an email address for. Here is the template, in the open, with three complete bios you can read end to end.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
Should your LinkedIn profile match your resume? Facts yes, wording no
A recruiter reads them side by side. Get the facts wrong and the application is over. Here is the line between what has to be identical and what should read completely differently.
12 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Portfolios
The junior developer portfolio: what to build when you have no job yet
Entry level portfolios do not fail because the code is bad. They fail because nothing on the page explains what the person was thinking. Here is what to show instead.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
Are Google Docs resume templates ATS friendly? Criterion by criterion
The question has no single answer, because Google Docs is not a resume format. It is a page you can put anything on, including a layout that parses beautifully and a layout that quietly loses your last job.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Personal branding
How to add a booking link to your website
You already have a scheduling link. The real question is where it should live on your site, how it should appear, and what needs to sit around it so people actually click it.
11 Jul 2026 / 8 min read
Personal branding
Is Linktree free? What it costs, and what the paid plans are really selling
The free tier is still there. The question worth asking is what sits behind the paywall, and whether a link list is the thing you should be paying for at all.
11 Jul 2026 / 8 min read
Resumes
How far back should a resume go? Count years, not pages
Ten to fifteen years is the working answer, and the exceptions are more interesting than the rule. Here is what to keep in full, what to compress to one line, and what to leave off without lying.
11 Jul 2026 / 8 min read
Portfolios
What to put in a portfolio, and the order that makes it read
Nine sections belong in a portfolio. The order you stack them in decides whether anyone reaches the good part.
11 Jul 2026 / 10 min read