Activity 7.3
Collecting Evidence for Your Portfolio
To get an understanding of the evidence you can add to your portfolio, refer to the features and benefits inventory you did earlier, and complete the table that follows in your journal. The goal is to identify the evidence available to support your claim of having a particular feature or benefit. For example, what evidence do you have that you can lead a team? What evidence do you have that you’re a self-starter? What is your evidence that you are creative? Or a good programmer? Or good with the elderly?
Consider the best way to share each piece of evidence. A bullet point in your work experience? A document you can upload to LinkedIn? A link to an article about your accomplishments? Or is it too sensitive to share publicly, but could be shared verbally? Is it so specific to a particular role that it’s best shared as a story in an interview?
It’s important to remember you can use multiple pieces of evidence to support a feature or benefit. Providing more evidence for the priority features and benefits minimizes your audience’s risk and enhances your probability of success.
One of the best things about identifying evidence is that it lends itself to telling your story. Consider the following four questions (and example answers) to turn your evidence into a mini story that you can tell at job interviews, networking events or when you meet with your design team.
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