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Build a cybersecurity skills profile
that proves what you can do

Turn your skills into a portfolio people can trust

A resume tells employers what you say you can do. A cybersecurity skills profile shows the proof. Your Skills Portfolio turns the evidence in your Skills Wallet into one shareable profile of validated skills, certifications, projects, and learning. Employers can see what you know and how you proved it.

Launching Soon

Skills Portfolio illustration showing verified cyber skills and professional proof.

Why it matters

A better signal than a resume alone

Most profiles list skills. Few show the proof behind them.

  • Share real proof

    A professional profile built on more than self-claims, backed by evidence an employer can verify.

    SEE A SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
  • One place for everything

    Skill proof, learning progress, and applied work in one record, instead of scattered links and PDFs.

    CREATE FREE SKILLS WALLET
  • Show what you can do

    Give employers and peers a clearer view of what you can actually do, not only where you have been.

    SEE WHAT A PROFILE HOLDS

Evidence over assertion.

Available today

What you can do now

Skills Portfolio is launching soon. Start with the free skills assessment to see how your capabilities compare with a target role. Then record your skills, certifications, and completed learning in your Skills Wallet. Everything you add now will carry into your portfolio at launch.

Profile tools

Five tools to build your profile

Each tool produces one part of the profile. Availability is shown on every card, so you know what you can use today and what is still coming.

  • Available now

    Skills Wallet

    Records validated skills, certifications, credentials, and completed learning as your evidence layer.

    CREATE FREE SKILLS WALLET
  • Launching soon

    Skills Portfolio

    Turns that evidence into one shareable professional profile an employer can verify.

    SEE A SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
  • Launching soon

    Cover Letter Builder

    Drafts a cover letter around the role and the evidence your profile already holds.

    NOTIFY ME AT LAUNCH
  • Launching soon

    Certification Tracker

    Tracks your certifications, renewal dates, and the credentials attached to each one.

    NOTIFY ME AT LAUNCH

At a glance

What each tool produces

What each tool produces
Tool What it produces Status
Skills Wallet Your recorded evidence layer Available now
Skills Portfolio One shareable professional profile Launching soon
Resume Studio Role-specific résumé versions Available now
Cover Letter Builder A cover letter drawn from your evidence Launching soon
Certification Tracker A live view of certifications and renewals Launching soon

Definition

What is a Skills Portfolio?

A Skills Portfolio is a public-facing professional profile built from proof of your skills. It brings validated skills, certifications, credentials, projects, simulations, and completed learning together, with context on how each item was proven.

Evidence carries different weight. A hands-on simulation provides stronger proof than course completion alone, and your profile reflects that difference.

What a profile holds

  • Validated skills
  • Certifications
  • Credentials
  • Projects
  • Simulations
  • Completed learning paths

SEE A SAMPLE PORTFOLIO

Two things, clearly

Skills Wallet and Skills Portfolio: what is the difference?

Your Skills Wallet is the private evidence layer inside the platform, where you record your skills, assessments, credentials, and completed learning. Your Skills Portfolio is the shareable, public-facing profile built from that evidence.

  • Skills Wallet

    The evidence layer

    • Inside the QuickStart platform
    • Records skills, assessments, credentials, and learning
    • Private to you
    • Grows as you build and validate

    CREATE FREE SKILLS WALLET

  • Skills Portfolio

    The shareable profile

    • Public-facing, generated from the Wallet
    • Presents the evidence to a reader
    • Shared when you choose to share it
    • Updates as your evidence does

    SEE A SAMPLE PORTFOLIO

One is where the proof lives. The other is what you send to people.

The difference

A resume summarizes claims. A profile organizes proof.

Most applications still require a resume. You tailor the document to each role. Your Skills Portfolio is a live record of validated evidence that grows as you learn and prove more skills.

A resume summarizes claims. A profile organizes proof.
Category Resume Skills Profile
What it contains A written summary of roles held Validated skills, projects, credentials
How it is verified Taken on trust, checked at interview Evidence attached to each skill
Who can find it Only whoever you send it to Shared by link, or visible if you opt in
How it changes Rewritten manually for each role Updates as you learn and validate
Before interview A claim a recruiter reads Capability a hiring team can review

BUILD A RÉSUMÉ VERSION IN RESUME STUDIO

Share it

A profile you can actually send to people

Your Skills Portfolio is built to be sent. Attach it to an application, post it to your professional network, or use it to support a conversation about what you can do next. One destination, shared wherever you need it.

  • With employers

    Give hiring teams a clearer view of your capability, not a resume summary they have to read between the lines of.

  • With your network

    Share progress and proof with peers, mentors, and professional communities. Proof that travels, not screenshots.

  • With confidence

    One polished destination reflecting both competency and effort. Built once, shared everywhere.

  • With context

    Show the validation, work, and progress behind each skill. The why and how, not only the what.

Your control

Who can see your profile

Your evidence is private by default. Employers see only the profile you choose to publish, not your assessment answers or account activity. You control who sees it and can turn sharing off at any time.

  • Private by default

    Everything you record in your Skills Wallet stays private until you publish a profile from it.

  • You choose who sees it

    Share by link, or make your profile visible to employers. Both are deliberate actions you take.

  • Switch it off anytime

    Turn sharing off and the profile stops being reachable. Your evidence stays where it is.

Read the QuickStart privacy policy

Next step

Once your profile is ready

A profile is only useful once it is doing something. Apply for matched cyber roles with your evidence attached, so a hiring team can see capability rather than infer it. If an assessment showed a gap, close it, and the validation updates your profile automatically.

  • Apply with your evidence attached

    See cyber openings matched to your skills, and apply with the proof already in place.

    FIND MATCHED CYBER JOBS
  • Close a gap and update the profile

    Build a missing skill, validate it, and your profile reflects the change without a rewrite.

    EXPLORE CYBER SKILLS
Skills Portfolio is your public-facing professional profile, built from the proof behind your skills. It brings validated skills, certifications, projects, simulations, and completed learning into one shareable destination, drawn from the same evidence recorded in your Skills Wallet.
A resume is a fixed document summarizing what you say you have done. A portfolio organizes evidence: validated skills, assessment results, projects, and credentials, weighted by how each was proven. Most applications still need a resume. The portfolio is what makes its claims verifiable.
Validated skills, certifications and credentials, projects, simulations, and completed learning paths. Each element carries context about how it was proven, so a reader sees not only the skill but the work and the validation behind it.
Anyone who needs to show cybersecurity capability rather than assert it: career switchers with real but unproven skills, learners and graduates turning training into evidence, and practitioners who want one professional profile that stays current as they learn.
Yes. It is built to be shared, whether you are sending it to an employer, posting it to your professional network, or using it to support a conversation about what you can do next. Sharing is something you switch on, and you can switch it off again.
The Skills Wallet is the evidence layer inside the QuickStart platform, where your skills, assessments, credentials, and completed learning are recorded. The Skills Portfolio is the shareable profile built from that evidence. One is where the proof lives. The other is what you send to people.

Frequently asked questions

Skills Portfolio FAQs

What the profile is, what goes in it, and who can see it.

Your next step

Start building the proof behind your skills

Skills Portfolio is launching soon. See a sample now, and record what you already have in your free Skills Wallet so your profile is ready on day one.