Stage 2 · Lesson 7 of 8
GitHub profile and portfolio
Many visitors will click through from LinkedIn to your GitHub or . Those pages should tell the same story, which is what a means. A GitHub profile README lives in a special named after your username, and it shows at the top of your profile.
Use it for a short line about what you do, your two or three best projects and how to reach you. Pin the repositories that support your niche. Give each one a README with what it does, a screenshot and how to run it. A simple portfolio page, even on , can link it all together.
Common trapa profile full of unfinished , because three well-documented projects that match your headline say more than thirty that do not.
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Resources for this stage
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- CoursePaidGrokking Prompt Engineering for Professional Portfolio and Job Search
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- GuideFreeLinkedIn Help: Create a Good LinkedIn Profile
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LinkedIn's own guidance on each profile section and what recruiters see
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