Thoughts on using work templaes in portfolio

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I need some advice on a subject I’m unsure about. I have had a portfolio put together since High school that I take into job interviews to show what I have done so far in my career.

I have had an Assistant Project Management job at a construction company for about 8 Months now. Went to college for this type of work and now just getting my experience in.

My question is… I have created many work templates in MS word, letters, estimates, manuals and other items I feel would be good to take to an interview. Would these be good to put in a portfolio for future references or would a future employer frown upon this? Of course any company information would be deleted.

Thank for the input.

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Take the templates and stuff them full of dummy data. “ABC Construction” and “Company XYZ at 123 Some St”.

As long as there is no customer info on there I don’t see a problem with showing the work you’ve been doing.

I’m a software engineer and I’ll talk about projects I’ve worked, even specific clients, but when it comes to showing example code I only include snipets that would be useless by themselves.

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Thats what I was thinking I was just unsure. Thanks for the input.