Today I'm going to give you some more job application productivity tips. So your job application time and applying for job reduces and you are more efficient, efficient in applying for multiple jobs in less time. Okay, now, when you are writing your job application, you should be very concise and direct. Don't write long paragraphs saying and showing your whole story how you become a developer or designer. Just write concise, very brief introduction, maybe one or two lines and just then go get to the point, okay, clients don't have whole day to read your job application. Now, the takeaways is that don't write more than 500 words job application, okay?

So it is not an article just write very concise, maybe two or three paragraphs or maybe that nine to 10 lines in your whole job application. Keep your intro very short. I just recommend that you should not go above two lines of your introduction You know, the second productivity tip is that job application templates, you need to create some job application templates for multiple jobs. You don't need just one or two, maybe you are a designer and you apply on logo designs and website designs or maybe wireframes. So create two or three different job application templates based on your each skill. Okay, also zip your different samples or your portfolio items into different zips containing each your skill like I have different folders for my wireframes I have zipped up my landing page designs into a separate folder.

Okay, so upload them to Dropbox and you can shorten their links with big.li goo.gl. There are a lot of URL shortening services online, you can use any of them and keep those URLs in another text file. Okay, now the takeaway is that even if you have created a template, it doesn't mean that you are going to just copy and paste it in the job. Application Okay, so when you are writing a proposal your proposal you need to customize that job application or your already saved template and customize it according to each job description also if you have online links have your samples and works that work better than zip files because sometimes I have seen that clients are reluctant to download zip files and then extract them okay. So this is human nature we always lean towards the easy jobs. So these are all the few more tips and tricks of applying to your jobs and creating templates for your job applications.

Now, let me show you share with you that my portfolio how I have arranged it you can see over here blog design dashboard design I have arranged everything in different folders. Okay landing page designs are in different folder, old portfolio, print, ventilated designs, everything I have done for print, okay, and you can see over here different card designs. So if I Have to send to a client I just select a few of them from here and send it to the attachment or email or whatever Okay, so if I get an e commerce website I just send these designs if I have a dashboard design I send this kind of designs okay. So, this is how you are going to be very selective okay? So these are different folders if you have can zip them that is good that you can see over here flat designs, it's a zip folder, I have zip them into a folder, all my flat designs, okay, then you can see wireframes over here, okay, now if you click over here, new portfolio you I you can see over here, this is how I have written my job application.

Okay, so these are all the links they are like seven or eight links. Okay, so I have divided them into different sections you can see over here with these lines, because most of the time only you can write the text in those job applications. Okay, so one or two lines introduction, then I have won these contests. So I work with these companies Panasonic and McAfee Intel. And these are my dribble profiles. So basically, if you have a profile on dribble or behance if you are a designer, then they are going to really get a good impression.

You can see over here Here are some of the links from a behance Gallery. And that is good impression. And also I think it's a bit old. Let's see, which I have a few more you can see over here. And this is written in different methodology. I have shown usability and UI guidelines skills over here CSS knowledge grid system, okay, so also I have different categories of work over here.

So if I need to remove some section, I just remove it if the job is for mobile work, I just delete all this and customize it according to that job description. So you can have multiple portfolios like you can see over here. These are my other links over here. Mobile portfolio latest 2015 portfolio you can see over here these are few different job applications I have written. And this is how you create your folders, manage your portfolio images and portfolio items into different folders and create different templates for your job applications.