The fact is when you interview for a job you rarely get to showcase all your skills. That’s true regardless of the job you seek or the field you work in. Sharing what you’ve done—showing your work—is the closest you can get, because each of those objects is an embodiment of the skills you’ve acquired and the lessons you’ve learned over time. It can be a mobile app or a five-thousand-word article about why Whole Foods is full of angry people, or the mechanical assembly for a robot tree. It doesn’t matter.

