Question: “I would like to start building a portfolio. However, much of my work is confidential and belongs to the company. If I can't showcase these examples of my work, what should put in my portfolio?” — Anonymous
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Your portfolio should include at least one example of a project or writing sample for each year of professional work. If your work is confidential simply redact confidential portions (i.e. client names) before sharing.
What comes to mind are the following: Projects you have worked on and outcome. Accomplishments both work and personal examples could be:
Completed Boston Marathon July 2003
Volunteer Keep Boston Beautiful Project 2001-current
Developed and implemented community educational out reach projects for teens 1999-current)
If you did any cost saving for previous employers describe in a short paragraph on how and what you did.
Education and training classes with dates
Copies of college transcripts.
An example that comes to mind for me is that I have created and maintain many Excel workbooks and I would probably suggest in that case that you put in “John/Jane Doe” and fake number which you could explain are only example/samples on your resume.
1. Complete master resume
2. If you are not allowed to use the “real” than use representative samples of your work
3. A list of accomplishments, awards, skills and talents that might demostrate/show that you have the “unwritable” experience that you are not allowed to write.
On memos, letters, emails, etc., that I have written, I black out any information that could be considered confidential or private; i.e., company name, address, phone #; employee names; salaries, etc. This has worked for me in the past.