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Subject:Padding your portfolio From:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA Date:Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:25:59 -0600
David Castro, told he couldn't use any of his 16 months of
work in a portfolio, wondered <<Does anyone out there know
of tactful ways of *legally* getting copies of work for a
portfolio? Esp. ways to do it without it looking like
you're planning to leave?>>
One obvious way would be to obtain a legal copy of the
software (either free, if you can swing it, or at a
discounted employee rate) and use that as your demo. You
can combine the docs with the software in an interview to
explain how you addressed the design issues, what
compromises you made, etc. If that won't work, then do this
same analysis yourself for any other piece of software
(e.g., MSWord), focusing on various design challenges and
your solutions: you company can copyright and restrict
distribution of your text, but not how you went about
creating it. Demonstrating your problem-solving smarts in
this manner can only look good.
--Geoff Hart @8^) geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.
