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How Career Strategy Lab can help you advance your career
Is creating your UX portfolio or resume, finding and applying to roles, and preparing for job interviews much harder than you thought?
Have you applied to 25, 50, 100 + roles and not landed any interviews?
Are you not applying to roles because you're still working on your portfolio?
Not moving past the first interview or getting job offers after multiple interviews?
Trying to figure out your next move after working in UX for a while?
Feel like imposter syndrome and career confidence are holding you back?
Want to streamline your job search so you can stop wasting time applying to 100's of roles?
Hi, I'm Sarah Doody, founder of the Career Strategy Lab
Over the last 6 years I’ve helped thousands of people like you land their dream UX role.
People who’ve worked with me been hired at companies including Blue Origin, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, and more. On average, they get hired in 3.5 months and increase their salaries by 40%.
In case you didn’t know, in 2012, I created the curriculum for and taught General Assembly’s first UX boot camp in NYC.
Career Strategy Lab is designed to give you the best training, templates, tutorials, and coaching to help you stand out, get more interviews, and ultimately land your dream role without applying to hundreds of jobs!
I’d love to work with you and help you get hired faster!
Career Strategy Lab Results
Since 2017 we've helped UX, Product, and Tech professionals from around the world advance, switch, or launch their career.
3,200+
alumni worldwide since 2017
3.5
average months to get hired
1.5
average months to finish a portfolio
40%
average salary increase
Does your job search involve applying to hundreds of jobs, but is not leading to interviews and offers? If so, then it’s time to change your career strategy, with the help of Career Strategy Lab.
Career Strategy Lab helps you be more strategic with your career, instead of throwing spaghetti at the wall, so you can get interviews faster, avoid plateauing in your skills and salary, and ultimately be more fulfilled in your job.
Real Life Success Stories
Here are some real-life results our clients have achieved after working with us in Career Strategy Lab to create their resume, portfolio, and conduct a strategic job search.
Farrah
Secured a 100% salary increase
“I accepted a position as a Senior UX Designer for a Fortune 500 financial company in Texas.
My salary is a 100% increase. So basically I make double what I was making at my last job.”
- 20 years experience in visual design
- Self taught UX Designer
Ibrahim
Pivoted into User Research
“I accepted a role but then got a better offer from Google so I accepted that one! Two years ago if you would’ve told me I’d be here today I wouldn’t have believed it!“
- 4 years of experience
- Pivoted from Product Management to User Research
KATIE
Hired with a 72% pay increase
“I applied to 4 large companies, landed second interviews with all of them, got 2 amazing offers, and got hired!
I’m now a UX Architect with a 72% pay increase … LIFE CHANGING.”
- UX Architect
- Hired at Bayer Crop Science
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Press & Podcast Interviews
We’re thrilled to be featured in publications including Fast Company, Forbes, and Yahoo as well as many leading UX podcasts.
Nielsen Norman Group Podcast
Episode 19: Designing a UX Career with Sarah Doody
USER INTERVIEWS Podcast
Episode 96: Your UX Career is a Product with Sarah Doody