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Can you use a portfolio instead of a CV?

Increasingly, yes, and especially with startups and smaller companies: a portfolio of real work now does the persuading while the CV does the admin. For large companies running applicant tracking systems you will usually still need a CV on file, but a one-line link to your evidence inside it changes how the CV reads.