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Guest session · UCT

Career Portfolio Workshop

Leave today with a live portfolio.

AI will interview you, find the proof you didn't know you had, and turn it into a one-page portfolio with a link you can put on your CV, your LinkedIn and every application from here on.

Free toolsLaptop or phoneNo CV neededNo coding
0 to 10 secondsThe outside

Your name, headline and photo. They decide whether to keep reading.

10 to 60 secondsThe front door

Your three proof stories confirm the headline is true.

A few minutesThe inside

Skills, journey and detail reward the recruiter who is already interested.

Your details

Fill these in and every prompt below updates itself. Anything you leave empty stays in [brackets] for you to fill in later. Your answers stay in this browser only.

1
About 2 minutes

Get set up.

Open claude.ai and sign in with your email or Google account. The free plan is all you need today.

On a laptop

Use claude.ai in your browser. Keep this page open in a second tab so you can copy prompts across.

Phone only

Download the Claude app, or pair up with someone on a laptop. Build theirs together first, then yours. Two portfolios, same time.

2
About 3 minutes

Gather your raw material.

You need something for the AI to work from. Pick whichever applies to you.

Have a CV

Open it and copy all the text. Pasting text is lighter than uploading a PDF, so your free messages last longer. A scanned PDF is the heaviest of all.

No CV
  • Have LinkedIn? Open your profile, tap Resources or More, then Save to PDF.
  • Nothing at all? Perfect. The interview builds your story from scratch.

Now your photo. You'll use it on your portfolio and on LinkedIn.

Have a good photo

A clear head-and-shoulders shot with decent light. Save it and name it photo.jpg.

No decent photo
  1. Stand facing a window, phone at eye level, at arm's length.
  2. Plain wall behind you, relaxed shoulders, slight smile.
  3. Open gemini.google.com, attach the selfie and paste the prompt below.
Selfie to headshotPaste into Gemini with your selfie attached

    

    
It must still look like you.Fix the light and the background, not your face. A recruiter will meet the real you, so a photo that looks like someone else works against you.

  


  
  

    
3
Chat 1 · about 20 minutes
Let AI interview you.

    
This is where the work happens. Most people write about themselves and freeze. Here, the questions do the work and pull out the proof you didn't know you had. Answer honestly and with detail. Voice typing is fine.
Choose your route.

    

      
      
    


    

      
Start a new chat, paste this prompt, then paste your CV text underneath or attach your PDF.

      

        
The interviewNew chat in Claude

        

      

    


    

    
When it gives you your Portfolio Brief, read it properly.If anything is wrong or overstated, tell it to fix that line before you move on. Then copy the whole brief.

  


  
  

    
4
Chat 2 · about 15 minutes
Build your site.

    
Open a brand new chat. A fresh chat with only your brief in it is faster and uses far fewer of your free messages than carrying the whole interview along. Paste this prompt, then paste your brief at the bottom.

    

      
The buildNew chat in Claude, brief pasted at the end

      

    

    
Seeing your initials instead of your photo?That's expected for now. Your photo appears when you make the site permanent in step 10, with photo.jpg in the same folder.

  


  
  

    
5
About 10 minutes
Make it yours.

    
Stay in the same build chat and change one thing at a time in plain English. You're the director here. Your judgement about what's good is the actual skill.

    

      
Sharper headline

      

    

    

      
Change the feel

      

    

    

      
Add projects or coursework

      

    

    

      
Fix something on phones

      

    

  


  
  

    
6
About 5 minutes
Publish and share.

    

      
Open your site in Claude and use the Publish or Share option to get a public link. Open that link on your phone and tap every button.

      
Then drop your link in the class chat. We'll put a few up on the screen.

    

  


  
  

    
7
The part you'll use all year
Power moves.

    
A portfolio isn't a one-off. These turn it into something that works for every single application.


    
Tailor it to any job in two minutes
Find a real graduate job ad, paste it into your build chat with this prompt, and get a version of your site written for that role. It also tells you where you're weakest, so you can prepare before the interview.

    

      
Tailor to a job adSame build chat

      

    


    
Match your LinkedIn
Recruiters check both. Make them tell the same story.

    

      
LinkedIn rewrite

      

    


    
Put a QR code on your CV
Paste your live link below and save the code as an image. Put it in the top corner of your CV so anyone holding a printed copy can open your portfolio in one tap.

    

      
To save it, long-press the code on your phone or right-click it on a laptop and choose Save image. A screenshot works too.

      
Your QR code
appears here

    

  


  
  

    
8
Before you send it to anyone
Check it like a recruiter.

    
    
Honesty is the whole point.AI likes to make things sound bigger than they were. In an interview you'll be asked about every claim, so only keep what you can talk about with confidence.

  


  
  

    
9
If Claude says you've hit a limit
Keep going anyway.

    

      
Prevent it
  • Two chats: interview in one, build in a fresh one.
  • Paste CV text instead of a PDF.
  • One change per message.

      
It happened
  • Run the interview prompt in ChatGPT or Gemini instead, then paste your brief into Claude for the build.
  • Or pair up with a neighbour and use their account for the build.
  • Free limits reset after a few hours, so you can finish at home.

    

  


  
  

    
10
Tonight or this week
Make it permanent.

    
Put your site on free Cloudflare hosting so it lives at its own address, with your real photo, for as long as you want it.

    
    
      
  1. 1Download your site from Claude and rename it to exactly index.html.
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  2. 2Put it in a folder with your photo.jpg.
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  3. 3Sign up free at dash.cloudflare.com, open Workers & Pages, create an application, and at the bottom choose "Looking to deploy Pages? Get started".
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  4. 4Upload the folder, not the file, and deploy. Your site lives at yourname.pages.dev.
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Stuck on a step, or want your own address like yourname.co.za? Book a Website Clinic and we'll sort it out together.