Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

Show Your Portfolio to the RIGHT People, Not HR! #shorts

3 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Skip HR and show your portfolio to engineering leaders who actually understand technical work. One person got hired at a major meat company after just one community college drafting course by showing a water-valve project to the right decision-maker.

That's good. And those are some of the people who interview as well, aren't they? They're the ones who—
Right. And the other thing you gotta do is I gotta make sure I show the portfolio to somebody who's gonna care about it. Not your typical HR person. I made sure it got into the hands of the engineering department or in the hands of the head of the company. Portfolio has to be shown to the right people that will appreciate it. The other big thing, I know a guy who was not autistic, but a took a one-semester community college course in drafting and got into the engineering department of a major meat company just by showing off a homework assignment he'd done of a water valve. I designed a lot of projects with him.
It's incredible, isn't it, how, you know, people with great will, great thinking, and an open mind— really, an open mind, um, and a caring mind with purpose— can achieve incredible things.
But we need— I'm concerned that too many of the people we need out there repairing factories, inventing factory equipment, are playing video games in the basement because they never took a shop class.