Employers: When do you review a potential candidate's portfolio? Before initial contact, or after? [x-post from r/userexperience]

I'm trying to get an understanding of how people decide to contact a potential candidate without first taking a look at the work that person has done?

Several of my colleagues are/have scrambling/scrambled to put together portfolios because a recruiter or hiring manager has just contacted them for some sort of design role, and they don't have a prepared body of work to show them.

Without first looking through a portfolio, what things do you consider? At what point during the hiring process do you take a look at their work?

Thanks!

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