Founded in 2007, our digital portfolios allow individuals to market themselves, answering the question “How do I stand out and have others take notice of me?” With offices in New York, New York, Dortmund, Germany and Dublin, Ireland, we are committed to helping you create an effective self marketing tool for yourself, your students, clients, and/or employees.
As the leader in digital portfolio creation, we are constantly at work thinking up new ways to bring Distinct Portfolios to the next level and beyond!
Distinct Portfolios is the leader in digital portfolio creation. A digital portfolio by Distinct Portfolios allows individuals the ability to gain an advantage when competing for a position through the use of completely interactive digital portfolios.
Paper resumes are boring and often ineffective. Even a well-formatted, text resume, printed on the best paper, lacks individuality and cannot convey personality or style. Through the use of completely interactive multimedia, it allows individuals to stand out from the crowd.
Whether you are looking for that edge in the job application process, want a stunning interactive portfolio for a personal website, desire a sharp piece of multimedia for self promotion, would like to increase job placement rates and help students gain employment at your school, college, or university, fancy to impress clients by showcasing your employees, or a student looking to impress by supplementing your college application, you have come to right place!
Our customers are individuals seeking to differentiate themselves from other candidates during the application process. With several packages and optional add-ons, Distinct Portfolios’ products offer incredible value by enabling users to create high-end, self marketing tools for the job application process, personal web sites and even self-promotion. Your traditional paper-based text resume or CV is transformed into a multimedia experience showcasing your qualifications and your personality.
Our products are also used by various educational institutions with a vested interest in seeing their students gain meaningful employment upon graduation. As well, service industries seeking to sell their employee’s experience/accomplishments to prospective clients (e.g. consulting firms) also find great value in our products.
Recruiters pore over pages of bond, cotton and laser printer paper everyday in hopes of finding the perfect candidate. They know how to effectively scan electronic and paper documents to single out those resumes or curriculum vitae worthy of closer scrutiny, while the others are quickly moved to the recycle bin.
So how do you create a resume/CV that captures a potential employer’s attention and distinguishes you from the business-as-usual candidates that are competing for the same job?
Besides having the necessary education credentials, skill set and experience required for the position, the best way to get employers to look closely at your resume/CV is to come across as a human being and not as an inventory of previous jobs and degrees. That’s difficult to do in an 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper.
A digital portfolio by Distinct Portfolios allows individuals the ability to gain an advantage when competing for a position through the use of completely interactive digital portfolios. By giving the recruiter the opportunity to see beyond qualifications and skills inventories to a three dimensional person who will fit seamlessly into their organization, you have the advantage over those hoping their choice of font will be enough to grab the reader’s attention.
A traditional resume, no matter how strong, does not stand out and will not properly communicate your value to potential employers in today’s market. Interactive and online self-promotion tools, like digital resumes, are invaluable resources used by savvy job seekers to gain job interviews and ultimately job offers.
With recruiters and employers seeing hundreds of applications, resumes, CVs and cover letters from individuals competing for the same jobs every day, the successful job seeker is the one who understands that selling yourself begins well before the personal interview.
Digital portfolios enable potential employers not only to assess your skills but to gain valuable insights into your personality and professional demeanour.
No! Digital resumes are a much in-demand tool used by serious job seekers from every industry:
- Post-Secondary Students
- Doctors
- Lawyers
- Accountants
- Engineers
- Heath Care Professionals
- IT Professionals
- Advertising Executives
- And more…
The reality is that there is little that can be done about the competition in today’s job market. The other candidates aren’t going to go away and distinguishing yourself from the masses will take more than a paper resume and cover letter. If you want to grab the attention of potential employers, you need to be unique, memorable and distinct!
We offer both free membership as well as premium memberships. Every one of our premium packages allows access to all of Distinct Portfolios premium features:
- Truly dynamic high impact premium templates which automatically generate content from user input; users can choose from multiple colors, layouts, and backgrounds.
- Ability to create up to 3 different profiles/portfolios, each of which can be tailored for a specific purpose and each having its own unique distinct portfolios URL.
- Hosting for all portfolios.
- Ability to create advanced virtual interviews with multimedia clips answering common (and uncommon) interview questions.
- Ability to upload up to 3 personal images, unlimited resumes, interview questions, and supporting documents in multiple formats.
- Ability to create interactive forms on the portfolio which allows users to generate their own form labels.
- Automatically resized graphics to fit the frontend template(s).
- Embed code for users to paste the embed code in social networks (i.e., myspace, facebook, homepage, etc…).
- Printer friendly versions, export to computer, burn to CD/DVD, and attach to email functionality.
- 24/7 customer support as well as an online interactive help library.
