A personal website for career changers
Your CV reads as a mismatch. A page can carry the explanation a CV has no room for, if it makes one specific argument.
Topic
Personal sites
22 articles.
A personal website for recent graduates
With no work history, the page has to argue from coursework and evidence of effort. What convinces a first employer.
A personal website for consultants and independents
For independents the page is a sales asset, not a CV. What a prospect needs to see before they will send the first email.
I need something online this week
For the conference badge, the invoice, the introduction on Friday. The shortest honest route from nothing to a page people can visit.
A personal website for software engineers
Engineers over-build the site and under-explain the work. What a hiring engineer looks for in the ninety seconds they give you.
One page or several: the only structural decision that matters
Most personal sites should be one page. The test for when they should not, and what splitting costs you in practice.
Personal website versus LinkedIn: what each one is good at
LinkedIn is a directory. A personal site is a first impression. The honest split of jobs, and why most people need both.
A personal website for translators and interpreters
Direct clients and agencies want different things from the same page. Language pairs, specialisms and the rates question.
Choosing which version of your name to live at
Your name is taken, hyphenated or unspellable. How to choose an address you will still be happy with in ten years.
A personal website for actors
Casting sites hold the credits. A page of your own holds the reel, the contact route and everything the platform crops.
A personal website for product managers
PMs have no artefact to show and a credit problem on everything they did. How to evidence work that was done by a team.
Linktree versus a page of your own
A link list solves one narrow problem well. What it costs you in framing, search and ownership, and when that trade is fine.
A personal website for teachers
Pupils and parents will search you. What belongs on a teacher's page, what must not, and where the boundary sits.
A personal website for journalists
Clips move, paywalls close and outlets fold. What a journalist's page has to preserve, and how to link work you do not own.
A personal website for PhD students
On the market, your page is read by search committees in a hurry. What it must answer before they open your job document.
Using Notion as a personal website
A published Notion page is a website in the technical sense. Where that holds up, and the four places it visibly does not.
A personal website for academics
Departmental pages are unreliable and unlovely. What an academic site needs, starting with a publication list that works.
A personal website for designers
Designers are judged on the site itself as well as the work in it. That double bind explains most of the bad decisions.
How to write about yourself without sounding like a brochure
The about section fails in two directions: corporate third person or oversharing. A method for landing between them.
What to put on a personal website, and what to leave out
The content list for a personal page, ordered by how much work each block does. Most of what people add makes the page worse.
Personal websites by profession: what each field actually expects
A one-page site means something different to an academic, an actor and a product manager. The conventions per field, and why they exist.
What a personal website is actually for
A personal site is not a brochure about you. It is an address you control, which changes what belongs on it and what does not.