Make a Culinary Portfolio

If you are a culinary artist or student seeking a culinary job, you can make a portfolio that can help you showcase your talent, promote your services or restaurant, find a position, and build an online presence. A portfolio will provide a central hub for information about you, your experience, your menus, recipes, awards, certifications, services you offer, and other pertinent information relating to your career as a chef. Learn how to make a culinary portfolio to make your career management simpler and easier for others to find you.

Steps

1. Think about the reasons why you are making a portfolio. Are you trying to get a job? Are you trying to promote your restaurant? Are you trying to promote your catering business? This will shape how the portfolio comes together.
2. Take a photo of yourself and plenty of pictures of your food. These should be high-quality photos that make you and your food shine. If you do not feel comfortable taking the photos yourself, you can have a friend or colleague do it for you or you can hire a professional photographer.
3. Get copies of any menus you have designed. You will need to scan the menus page by page so they are in a digital format and can be used on your website. If you cannot do this task yourself, hire someone to do it for you.
4. Gather all the recipes you have developed. These can be recipes you created while in school or created for one of your signature menus. Your recipes will speak volumes about your cooking style and experience.
5. Look at your resume. You don't necessarily want to list your experience online exactly like in the resume. However, you do need to keep track of the jobs you've worked because you will need to list them on your culinary portfolio.
6. Write an autobiographic page that details who you are and what your style and philosophies are. This is a vital piece of your portfolio.
7. Write detailed information about the services you offer, so that customers will know what you are available for. This is a particularly important step if you are a chef looking for catering or private chef jobs.
8. Contact past clients and colleagues to get references to give to future customers.
9. Gather proof of any awards and certifications you have received. This can increase your marketability to potential customers.
10. Include your contact information on the website to enable potential employers and customers to reach you.
11. Build your portfolio website. There are 3 different ways you can go about doing this. You can build it yourself with basic website design software or HTML knowledge, you can hire a designer to work with you to create it, or you can use an online service designed specifically for building an online portfolio.

Tips

• It is entirely up to you as to how to structure your portfolio, but keep it simple for both you and your visitors.
• Adding a "Hire Me" page to your portfolio may be a good idea if you are aiming to book clients directly with your website.

Sources and Citations

• http://www.discoverchefs.com/

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