No. 001: The work gets remembered. I don't.
Your problem
I've made work that scored 74.1% creative recall, the highest in Sky Media's history. Nine out of ten people finished a fuel ad they could have skipped for free. People remember the work. In a job search, almost none of that transfers, because nobody knows it was me.
The reframe
You don't have a memorability problem. You have an attribution problem, and they have opposite fixes.
Ehrenberg-Bass has been saying this about advertising for years: only about 16% of ads are both correctly remembered and correctly attributed to the brand that paid for them. The industry treats it as an advertiser's problem. It's the identical problem for a person with a portfolio. Being remembered is a function of distinctiveness. Being attributed is a function of a consistent, repeated link between the thing and the name. Those are different jobs, and doing more of the first will never fix the second.
The working theory
Attribution is built by repetition of one connective device, not by producing more or better work. The work is already good enough. What's missing is something ownable that shows up every single time, carrying both the artifact and the name.
Most people in this position respond by making more. More case studies, a longer reel, another deck. That compounds the actual problem, because each new thing arrives unattached to the last one.
What I'd do Monday
Pick one device and use it without exception. For me it became one address that everything lives at, in one visual system, with my name in the header of every page. Same type, same colours, same footer on every artifact. Boring on purpose. The consistency is the mechanism.
Then stop making new things for one month and connect the ones you have.
What I'd need to know to be more sure
Whether attribution failure is actually costing you interviews, or whether it's standing in for a different anxiety. I'd want to see the real funnel: applications sent, screens booked, offers. If the drop is between application and screen, this is the right diagnosis. If it's between screen and offer, the problem is somewhere else entirely and this fixes nothing.
I'd also want to know how many of the people you're trying to reach have ever seen any of the work at all. Attribution assumes exposure. If exposure is the actual gap, this is the wrong tool.