Introduction

A note from the author

I spent a year on my ePortfolio. Not because the work was hard; the work was the easy part. Nobody showed me the order.

I wrote my narrative twice, re-ticked my capabilities three times, and built my checklist in the final week with my heart in my mouth. Every one of those loops was avoidable, and every one had a name I only learned afterwards.

This book is the streamlined version: the order I wish I had been handed, the map I had to draw for myself, and my mistakes, labelled, so you do not need to make them.

You already did the work. Let us assemble it.