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10 Questions To Critique Your UX Portfolio This Weekend Lorum Ipsum Dolor

Have you ever thought … “I’m a UX Designer. So why can’t I design my own UX portfolio?” Here’s the problem.

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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 out to recruiters. However, you have to do more than just add the Open To Work banner to your profile.
August 10, 2023

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.
August 9, 2023
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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 exists, your experience can be an asset it starts with re-framing how you see your age because it's not as big of a disadvantage as you may think.
May 30, 2023
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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 increase in salary. However, switching companies could land you a significant salary increase.
May 21, 2023
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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 in other industries. The tech industry hired too fast and overestimated growth. However, other industries such as health, financing, government, and education are in dire need of tech professionals with these skills.
April 29, 2023

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 game will eventually lead to more interviews and job offers. Gambling with your job search defies so many product design and development principles and strategies. It's time to apply some UX and Product principles to your job search.
December 12, 2021
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