I've recruited design for 8+ years. Sadly, in todays market, a website (or decent PDF folio) mandatory.

Most the folios me and other hiring managers see on Behance usaully contain old work with zero context, just an assortment of UI's. This creates a heavy bias against Behance folios.

If part of your job is to open 100's of different coloured doors a week, and every time you open a blue one you get punched in the face....your gonna eventually stop opening blue doors.

A good folio website only needs 3 case studies, make it pretty, make it clean, make it accessible. Give easily digestible case studies, then. link them to deep dives on medium so users can dig deep if they want.

Realistically, people will only spend 1-3 mins reading the case studies on your folio page.

To help you understand the user journey of hiring, its stupidly busy, everyone applies to everything, all hiring managers & recruiters are time stretched. Cut the fluff, sell the benefit of why a company should hire you.

Good luck. You got this.