4 Job Search Tips From Hiring Managers Who’ve Worked At Meta, Shopify, & IBM
In your job search, it's crucial that you don't listen to all the random advice on the Internet. That's why you should pay extra attention to these job search tips
Career articles that go beyond the surface to help you create your UX portfolio, find UX jobs, and prepare for interviews.
3 Tips To Announce You’re ‘Open To Work’ On LinkedIn so You Can Stand Out
If you've been laid off or are looking for a job, using LinkedIn's Open To Work feature, which adds a green banner to your profile image, can help you stand
How to Leverage Your Soft Skills to Get Hired if You’ve Been Laid Off From a Tech Job
Despite recent layoffs at tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and Meta, Salesforce, and Meta, job seekers should not assume this pattern will continue outside the tech industry.
Ageism in User Experience and Tech Jobs: How to Re-Frame and Deal With It
Ageism exists at both ends of the career spectrum and in this episode we'll focus on challenges that people who are further along in their careers might face. Though ageism
Why Staying in a Job For Too Long Can Hurt Your Salary and Career
Even if you enjoy your job, you might consider exploring your earning potential. If you stay in your current job year after year, you’ll likely only see a small percent
How to Find UX, Product, and Tech Jobs Outside the Tech Industry
Just because layoffs are happening and UX, Product, and Tech professionals are being let go from tech companies, this does not mean these types of roles are not in demand
Get More UX Job Interviews: 3 Principles To Product Manage Your Job Search
Have you applied to 25, 50, 100 or more UX jobs and not landed any interviews or job offers? The solution is to not keep applying and hoping the numbers
Why You Aren’t Getting Hired After a UX Bootcamp: A 3-Step Job Search Pivot Plan
Are you frustrated about how long your UX job search is taking? Feeling a bit betrayed by promises of getting hired that your UX bootcamp lead you to believe? Wondering
Should you choose a UX design specialization or remain a UX generalist?
At some point in your UX career, you'll likely feel pressured to decide if you want to be a UX generalist or a UX specialist. How do you know what's
How Long Should a UX Case Study or Portfolio Be so it Stands Out to Recruiters?
Stop trying to make your UX case study a certain number of words or make it fit on a single page. Instead, you must think like a designer and determine
How to ask someone to review your UX portfolio and what you can do to get helpful feedback
Asking for feedback about your UX portfolio is crucial because you've been staring at it for so long, you probably missed some key details. There's a right way and wrong
Meet The Career Project Diary: How To Document UX Projects As You Do Them
"What did you do on that project?" ... being able to explain what you did on a project is crucial not only for creating a portfolio but for interviews and
How to Choose the Best Projects to Include in Your UX Portfolio
If you want to stand out to UX recruiters and hiring managers, you'll likely need to have a UX portfolio. Don't be templated to put all your projects in your
The 3 Users of Your UX Portfolio: Who They Are & What They Look For
Developing a professional UX network can be crucial to your career. It can lead to job opportunities, knowledge sharing, and life-long friendships. Networking does not have to feel like a
How to Find and Create Practice UX Projects to Expand Your UX Experience
If no one will hire you, how are you supposed to get UX experience? How will you ever add more projects to your UX portfolio? The solution is simple, you
How to Write a UX Resume to Stand Out and Get More Interviews
Recruiters and hiring managers spend seconds scanning your resume to find out crucial information about your skills and experience. If that information is hard to find, it could cost you
To Advance Your UX Career Stop Focusing on Job Titles and Focus On These Skills Instead
UX job titles are confusing and mean different things are different companies. The title "UX Designer" at one company will mean something completely different at another company. Instead of wasting
Stop Trying to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Your Career
Imposter Syndrome is something that so many professionals aim to overcome. However, the expectation that at some point it goes away could not be further from the truth. The key
Soft Skills UX Professionals Need To Stand Out
It's not enough to know the software, trends, and talk the talk. If you want to stand out as a professional, grow your career, and be able to influence and
How to Approach the UX Job Search and Not Play the Numbers Game
The speed at which you get interviews is dependent on how much you apply a little UX to your actual job search.
What is the Best Format for a UX Portfolio? A Presentation, Website, or Something Else?
The format of your UX portfolio can make or break the experience that recruiters and hiring managers have when using your portfolio! You must step back and consider the full
How to Develop Your Professional Network Throughout Your UX Career
Developing a professional UX network can be crucial to your career. It can lead to job opportunities, knowledge sharing, and life-long friendships.
How to Write a UX Case Study to Showcase Your Skills, Experience, & Process
People keep telling you to "tell a story" about each project in your UX portfolio. But you still aren't sure HOW to write an actual UX case study. This article
8 UX Portfolio Website Mistakes To Avoid
Be honest, did you consider the UX of your UX portfolio website? What you write about each project is equally important as how you present it visually. Recruiters and hiring
10 Questions To Critique Your UX Portfolio
You wouldn’t launch a product without doing some Q&A and gathering some feedback, right? The same applies to your UX portfolio. Use these 10 questions to critique your UX portfolio
How to Choose Which UX Bootcamp is Right For You
Each UX bootcamp is different and offers many promises. How do you know if a UX bootcamp is worth it? And how do you know which UX bootcamp will be
Preview the AIDA Framework that we teach in Career Strategy Lab to help UX & Product people advance their careers
In this 60-minute masterclass, our founder, Sarah Doody, will teach you how our AIDA Framework will help you stand out and get more job interviews and job offers by treating your career.