Okuzeka
Job Interviews & Careers vocabulary · Career Development

Portfolio career

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

nounCommon term

In job interviews & careers, portfolio career means: A working life combining several roles, projects or income sources rather than one main job.

In Turkish: birden fazla işten oluşan kariyer

How it is used

Use for a career structure, not a collection of work samples.

Example sentences

  1. Her portfolio career combines translation, teaching and research consultancy.

    Several forms of work coexist as parts of one working life.

  2. He built a portfolio career after leaving a single full-time position.

    The change concerns how work is distributed across roles.

Common collocations

  • build a portfolio career
  • pursue a portfolio career
  • career pathThe series of jobs and roles a person moves through during their working life, or a planned way to progress inside a company.
  • part-timeDescribes a job in which you work fewer hours than a normal full working week, for example three days a week or only in the mornings.

More terms: Career Development

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: