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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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Portfolios
Should I make a portfolio website? The honest answer, including when the answer is no
Most advice on this question is written by people who sell website builders. So here is the version with the "no" left in: who a portfolio actually moves the needle for, who is wasting a weekend, and what it really costs.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Careers
How to start an independent consulting business in ninety days
Going independent is not one decision, it is six small ones. Here is the order to make them in, what to do first, and the parts nobody can do for you.
11 Jul 2026 / 10 min read
Portfolios
Folio vs portfolio: what each word actually means
Folio is not an abbreviation of portfolio. The two words have separate lives, and only one of them is a safe name for the place you show your work.
11 Jul 2026 / 6 min read
Resumes
Federal resume format: the two-page rule USAJOBS now enforces
For years the standard advice was that a federal resume should run five pages or more. OPM changed that. Here is the rule as published, who is exempt, and how to fit a real federal career into two pages.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
The resume after 50: what to cut, what to keep, and why
Thirty years of work does not belong on two pages, and trying to fit it there is what makes a resume read as dated. The edit is mostly subtraction.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
PhD to industry resume: how to turn an academic CV into a resume
The instinct that made you a good academic, completeness, is the instinct that sinks your first industry application. Here is what every line of the CV becomes.
12 Jul 2026 / 10 min read
Portfolios
The bootcamp portfolio problem: everyone shipped the same three projects
A cohort graduates with a weather app, a to-do list and an e-commerce clone. The hiring manager has seen all three before lunch. The fix is not a nicer template.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read
Resumes
The resume after a career break: the gap is not the problem
You have been out for two years, or five, and now you are coming back. The resume that gets you read is not the one that hides the break. It is the one that puts your capability where the reader lands first.
11 Jul 2026 / 9 min read