Future-Era Portfolios: Strategy & Tactics

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This is frontier perception based on years of experience deploying methods and recognizing the competitive advantages. 

To be well-positioned, you need to examine the job market map from many angles, then project futures. 

Collateral effects are manifesting from technology’s capacity to level the professional playing field. This leveling is likely to result in intense homogeneity.

One: more professionals will shape up faster, or appear to, through communication, appearance, documentation. The LLM assistant will grant the average person speed to improve areas that used to help people stand out, pre-LLM. More people will have better-looking resumes, cover letters, digital correspondence. Responses on applications will be sharper with the LLM assistant’s help. Recruiters were already dealing with an app ocean. They will have more difficulty finding distinction.

Two: this raises the standard for materials while the majority appear similar. When more people achieved a Bachelor’s, it became less distinct. When apps and resumes present similarly, scouts will need new candidate signals. 

Three: the ease to produce with LLM assistance offers temptation to settle. Theory: If the resume is solid, it should be good enough to receive instant interview contact. This was never the case, but the tech helps reinforce this philosophy.

Frontier distinction will involve dynamic portfolios, particularly for those just entering the work world without contact networks or relying on common documents to attract opportunities. Tech professionals tend to have some version of this, but it will become important for people in most industries.

In these portfolios, there will be video demos where you introduce yourself and discuss your individual work philosophy. You will have sections that walk visitors through example problems solved, your unique contributions.

Instead of social media, this will be a singular ecosystem that grows as you do, and under your ownership. This portfolio gives you immediate distinction by separating you out from professionals who rely just on documents, because this era is about skills and value rather than specific years of experience. If anyone can cook up content with LLMs, then you become the outlier by showing your face, voice and performance examples.

This portfolio is nimble, and you are agile, so you make custom pages for desired employers, set up personalized intros for them, custom discussions to show your research in interview stages. Now, you not only have well-tailored documents, but also quality, humane connection to pair.

Your future-era portfolio is also expansive, evolving beyond narrowness. It shows a polymathic mind that can think broadly and make unique connections to solve problems.

The screenshot in this image is an example of such a portfolio. I’ve been building my sites for years, attracted (and created) opportunities by putting together this ecosystem.  - TR