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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 Product Management Principles For 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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Should you choose a UX design specialization or remain a UX generalist?
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 whether or not the case study feels too long. Subjective? Yes. But design is subjective and though we have best practices, trying to apply rules such as number of words a case study should be simply doesn't make sense.
June 9, 2020
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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 whether or not the case study feels too long. Subjective? Yes. But design is subjective and though we have best practices, trying to apply rules such as number of words a case study should be simply doesn't make sense.
June 3, 2020
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