Career advice

Your portfolio is the certificate

Hiring managers spend seconds on credentials and minutes on proof. A link to a live site you built beats a line listing a course you watched. Every time.

So build the portfolio as you learn, not after. Each Sabifirst stage ends in an outcome for a reason: a page, a design, a working thing. Ship each one publicly as you pass its quiz and the portfolio assembles itself.

Three finished pieces beat thirty tutorial certificates. Curate ruthlessly: your best work first, a sentence each on what it does, and a way to contact you. Delete the rest.

When the portfolio speaks, interviews become demos. Walk them through what you built, what broke, and how you fixed it. That conversation is the real final exam.