It is very lame when web designers go to interviews with an empty portfolio. Nothing shows more disinterest and laziness than the empty portfolio of a so-called web designer. Don’t expect to be hired and to create a portfolio for yourself afterward, because nobody will hire you in the first place. Don’t forget you compete with people who polished their skills by working hundreds of hours for clients and who have a portfolio full of good work and promising testimonials. What do you have besides the “I want to provide high-quality services to this company” cliché?

Start creating your name by doing freelancing, there is a lot of freelance work on the web or by just accepting small projects from friends, relatives, and students. Enhance the knowledge that you have by creating something new from it. Watch and Read tutorials that can help you learn more of what is needed in the industry and start learning from it and by small projects and practices you have made, you have collected a so-called portfolio in which you can use to apply in a company.

Start from little and be humble enough when you are on the top of the sky.