Is it necessary to have a good web design portfolio to have a job

Is it necessary to have a good web design portfolio to have a job?

Web design portfolio is necessary for all the designers who have done their degrees or certification or in any professional career. It provides an overview to the companies about your skills, performance, creativity and overall work. Portfolio shows off your skills, talents, experience with the projects that has been handled by you. It provides an easy way for the recruiters to see your work and different segments of web design done by you like designing websites, landing pages, web pages, banners, etc. On the basis of the web design portfolio companies hire you. The starting package of a professional web designer starts from Rs. 2.5 Lakhs and it goes on according to the experience. More experienced you are higher the package you will get. 25% of the web designers are self employed and working as freelancer or part time on some projects in their free time. 75% of the people work in different companies but they always look for opportunity to work in graphics, web programming, desktop publishing, print media, etc.