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The greatest product you’ll ever work on in your career is you.
Career Strategy Lab exists to help you create a career that gives you the flexibility, freedom, and impact you want to have in your professional and personal life.
So how do you unlock this in your career? It starts with strategy. That’s why we called this Career Strategy Lab.
We’ve been doing this since 2017. So we have this dialed in and, it’s our full time job, not a side hustle!
Some companies our clients have been hired at:
HOW CAREER STRATEGY LAB WORKS
Career Strategy Lab is a 3 month program, or 6 if you that’s better for you.
Our sprint structure will help you stand motivated, accountable, and focused on the why behind what you’re doing so you don’t lose sight of your short and long term goals.
Establish your Career Roadmap so you have clarity about your next career move
Create a stand-out resume & optimized LinkedIn profile, presence, and visibility.
Conduct a strategic job search and build intentional professional relationships.
Write your case studies and design an effective portfolio presentation that proves your value.
Prepare for job interviews and leverage people over platforms in your job search.
Curriculum and Program Structure
As you go through each of the 5 sprints, you’ll have our curriculum, coaching, critiques, and community to help you take action and stay accountable.
Access to the Full Career Strategy Lab On Demand Curriculum
Our trainings are all on-demand so you can do them at your pace. We’re like Netflix for your job search.
You get access to everything at once so you can hop around to what’s relevant to your situation & won’t have to worry about making time for countless live lectures etc.
Critiques & Reviews Of Your Work
Critiques are your chance to submit your work (up to 8 items during your time in CSL) and receive personalized and expert feedback on your portfolio, resume, cover letter, job search strategy, etc.
And, you’ll learn a ton from seeing the work of others and hearing their critiques – our clients consistently say this is the most valuable part of the program!
Weekly Group Coaching Calls
Every other week, we will have coaching calls together where you can get your questions answered in a group setting.
This is where we can discuss career strategy, overcome challenges, and go deep into individual questions related to your portfolio, resume, job search, or career strategy.
Virtual co-working To Help You Stay Accountable
Connect with other members of CSL 24/7 in our virtual co-working space.
This is a great way to create some momentum and routine as you work your way through CSL. And, you’ll also get to know some of your peers and get to ask questions about what you’re working on in real-time!
Our Full Curriculum, Templates, And Job Search Script Library
Access all our worksheets, resources, checklists, and templates to help you reach your career goals faster.
This includes access to our fillable Google Docs for writing your portfolio and resume, along with job search scripts to help you with outreach, follow up, negotiation, and more.
Access to the Private Career Strategy Lab Community
Surround yourself with committed, driven, and focused UX and Product professionals. Ask questions, get support, and see what’s working for other people on their journey to get their next role.
You’ll meet other ambitious professionals, form authentic relationships, and challenge each other to reach your goals and not settle.
The scale of all the materials in Career Strategy Lab blew my mind!
I was thinking about how universities charge the same or more for similar professional courses that are far less effective than CSL. If I’d realized how broken down the steps were … I don’t think I would have waited as long to join!
SARAH L
Lead UX Designer from Boston, MA
WHO IS CAREER STRATEGY LAB FOR?
The Career Strategy Lab is for people at all career stages and for designers, researchers, writers, and all other product roles.
Whether you’ve been working in UX for 20 years or are just starting out you’ve likely struggled with challenges that everyone faces at one point or another.
It’s not just you. No matter what stage you’re at, everyone faces challenges such as:
Career Climbers
You’re ready to advance your existing UX career, but you’re not sure what your next move should be.
Career Switchers
You’re switching from another industry and not sure how to communicate your transferable skills.
Career Launchers
You’re trying to land your first ‘real’ job, which happens to be in the field of UX or Product Design.
Real-life results from Career Strategy Lab clients
Farrah
Secured a 100% salary jump
“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.”
Erik
Moved up into UX Leadership
“I was not writing my case studies the correct way. After following your strategies, I got hired to build a UX team at Lockheed Martin. “
Melody
Got more interviews
“Previously I was getting no interviews! Your program helped me articulate my process during interviews. I was offered a Product Designer role at Lowe’s Home Improvement. “
Ibrahim
Pivoted to 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!“
SUCCESS STORIES
We get it … you want to hear from real people who’ve been career situations similar to you.
We compiled a PDF of client stories from people with 20+ years of experience, people switching careers, and some who were just starting their careers.
Hear where they started, what they achieved, and how Career Strategy Lab helped them advance their careers.
Meet 6 alumni who got hired:
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
How Jamie navigated a layoff and got hired as a Senior Product Design at ContactMonkey
After applying to hundreds of UX jobs and not getting interviews, Jamie joined Career Strategy Lab. He said the community and structured of the 5-sprints helped him rebuild his confidence and ultimately get hired in just 3-months after joining Career Strategy Lab.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
Hear why Laura joined CSL and how she got hired as a UX Research manager in Spain.
As a designer and researcher, Laura felt like her career plateaued and didn’t know how to get unstuck. Before Career Strategy Lab, she was working at an UX agency and wanted to make a change, but didn’t know what that change should be.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
How Jaden got hired as Senior Product Designer at Zipline Retail after a layoff and a career break
Jaden worried she’d have trouble getting hired with an employment gap on her resume. You’ll hear how Jaden leveraged LinkedIn in her job search and how our Career Roadmapping process helped shift her mindset about her past experience and own her story.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
Jane got hired as a Principal UX Researcher at Whole Foods in 2.5 months despite emigrating to the US with no professional network
Jane worried her 8 years of experience doing UX research in China wouldn’t be taken seriously in the US. Despite these obstacles, she got hired 2.5 months after joining Career Strategy Lab (for a role higher than she applied for!)
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
How Steven switched to UX research, landed freelance contracts, started a UX Research agency, & hired CSL alumni
As someone switching to UX and with zero industry connections, Steven “was flying blind and not getting granular feedback on my resume, portfolio, etc.” He leveraged CSL’s easy to follow curriculum, community, and detailed critiques which helped him land contracts and ultimately start his own UX research agency
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
How Katie got hired as a VP of UX after an expected Google layoff and learned to own her career story
Katie struggled to articulate her incredible skills and career story. She said, having third-party (like Career Strategy Lab) made a huge difference.
She said, it gave her perspective and helped her see things in herself that she couldn’t see on her own.
we don’t agree with job guarantees
Unlike other programs, we don’t offer a job guarantee. We believe they’re unethical and often come with many strings attached.
We don’t make promises we can’t keep. The truth is, no one in the world can guarantee you’ll get hired except the person signing the offer
Job guarantees imply we can control all the variables in your job search, and we can’t. We also caution you to read the fine print of any program, and before you join, ask what they do to fulfill this promise.
What We Do Guarantee
We’ll show up to support you inside of the CSL community every step of the way. You show up for yourself, and we’ll show up for you.
We want you to feel 100% confident in your decision, so we invite you to book a call.
This call is your chance to ask questions so you have total clarity on whether Career Strategy Lab is the right step based on your career goals.
Don’t worry this isn’t a weird sales-y call, that’s not our vibe!
Use the calendar at the right to book your call.
Or, message us using the chat widget on this page.
FEES & FINANCING
Join CSL for 3 or 6 months months and get 1 extra month for free.
To recap, here is everything you will get access to:
Courses & Templates
Coaching
Community
We have 7 spots available and enrollment opens on Wednesday, March 12 at 4pm ET
Get 1 extra month for free whether you join for 3 or 6 months.
3 MONTHS OF ACCESS
$ 3,000
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6 MONTHS OF ACCESS
$ 4,300
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Refund note: Due to the digital nature of CSL and many assets being instantly downloadable, we don’t offer refunds.
3 MONTHS OF ACCESS
$ 3,000
Explore 0 Interest Financing
Get an instant answer through our trusted partner and spread out your payments over 9 months.
6 MONTHS OF ACCESS
$ 4,300
Explore 0 Interest Financing
Get an instant answer through our trusted partner and spread out your payments over 9 months.
Refund note: Due to the digital nature of CSL and many assets being instantly downloadable, we don’t offer refunds.
Some of the companies people who’ve worked with us have been hired at:
What would it mean if you could be in your dream role in 6 months or less and with a salary higher?
If you take 6 months to get hired, you won’t earn a higher salary until month 6.
BUT if you get hired in just 4 months, you will earn your new higher salary for 2 extra months. That’s a lot of money!
It’s time to get your dream role & do the work you’re passionate about!
These UX professionals from all career stages followed our step by step strategies and landed their UX dream jobs! If it worked for them, it can work for you!
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you wondering if Career Strategy will work for you if you’ve already been working in UX and Product for a while?
The answer is – yes. Our program will help you with challenges specific to people like you. For example, as a mid or senior level UX person we’ll help you:
Whether you’re a UX researcher, UX writer, information architect, product manager, or anything in between, the steps you must take to land your next job are the same.
The difference lies in what you will highlight in terms of your skills and experience and how that translates to your resume, LinkedIn, portfolio, job interviews, etc.
Sarah has helped people from all disciplines and specialties in UX and Product Development land their dream roles, from researchers and writers to designers and managers … and everyone in between!
Are you worried that you’re not confident enough? Are you worried that your imposter syndrome and negative thinking will prevent you from taking full advantage of everything that Career Strategy Lab has to offer?
Here’s the thing, if you wait until you FEEL confident to join Career Strategy Lab, you’ll be waiting a long time.
Confidence doesn’t just drop out of the sky.
Confidence doesn’t magically show up one day.
Confidence isn’t something that just magically bestows itself upon you.
Confidence comes from taking action, not the other way around.
In fact, if you keep putting off taking action, you’ll feel even LESS confident in a few weeks because you’ll keep beating yourself up and getting upset with yourself for still being in the same place or situation.
If you’re waiting to feel confident before you take a leap in your career or life, you’ll be waiting a LONG time.
Start TODAY, and in a few weeks, you’ll feel much more confident in a few weeks. You’ll look back to today and realize what you achieved, how you grew, and how different you feel.
Confidence is built through action. That’s why so many of our clients in CSL say their confidence increases within weeks – because they finally start taking action.
Yes! Many of our clients join us proactively because they recognize that it’s far better to have your resume, LinkedIn profile, portfolio, etc ready to go so that you don’t have to rush if you find yourself in an unexpected layoff – or, if a great opportunity comes your way.
The time to be updating your resume, portfolio, etc is not when you NEED them. When you wait to work on your career materials, you’ll likely rush and make mistakes. And mistakes in your resume, portfolio, etc will not create a strong first impression for recruiters, hiring managers, etc.
Many people who are happily employed join Career Strategy Lab because they want clarity about the next chapter of their career. Some have reached a plateau, others are bored, and some want help figuring out:
Do you still have questions? Book a no-pressure call here.
We get it … investing in your career can feel like a chicken and egg scenario – you know this program will help you get a job, but you don’t have the funds to invest.
First of all, we obviously want you to be responsible with your money. We are not here to convince you to make unwise financing decisions.
Money isn’t a popular topic to talk about. But when we don’t talk about it, it’s easy to fall into money mindset traps that hold us back.
Here are 3 things to consider if you’re worried about the financing element of joining Career Strategy Lab:
1 – If you don’t join Career Strategy Lab, how much longer will you be unemployed?
Every month your job search takes, it’s another month that you are either not earning a salary or that you’re stuck at your current salary.
Often people join CSL after not getting hired after a job search that’s 4, 6, 8+ months. Then, after following what we teach, they get hired in 3 months. Of course, some take longer. But many tell us they wish they’d joined sooner because they could have been earning a higher salary sooner.
Think about it – if you don’t join CSL, it might take you 6 or more months to get hired.
But, if you do join us, and you get hired in 3 months, that’s only 3 months until you are earning a higher salary.
2 – Career Strategy Lab will more than likely pay for itself
Let’s do some math. The cost of CSL is $3,600 USD (or $3,000 if you pay in full).
On average in 2024, our clients are seeing an average salary increase of $27,575 USD.
So, it’s more than likely that CSL will pay for itself. As one of our clients said, consider the big picture and look at the impact of compound interest.
3 – Can you leverage financing options, available through our trusted partner, Elective?
Due to regulations out of our control, there are different options available depending on where you are in the world.
Yes, we offer payment plans and we offer financing options for people worldwide, options vary depending on your eligibility and location.
Due to regulations out of our control, there are different options available depending on where you are in the world.
We don’t agree with job guarantees
We believe they’re unethical and often come with many strings attached.
We don’t make promises we can’t keep. The truth is, no one in the world can guarantee you’ll get hired except the person signing the offer
Job guarantees imply we can control all the variables in your job search, and we can’t. We also caution you to read the fine print of any program, and before you join, ask what they do to fulfill this promise.
You will have the opportunity to join our live group coaching and critique calls which happen every week over Zoom where our team will answer your questions and help you strategize about specific situations in your career journey. These calls will be recorded so that you can listen later if you can’t attend live.
You will be able to submit work for critique every week.
We designed the experience of Career Strategy Lab’s job search accelerator into 5 sprints so you can see immediate results.
In the first 30 days, you’ll achieve these 3 crucial results:
We’ve made this whole process really simple, by breaking it down into 5 sprints so you don’t get overwhelmed or distracted.
And guess what, that confidence that you want, it comes from taking ACTION. So many people say they’ll wait to get started until they are confident. But if you wait until confidence to come down from the sky and change you – you’ll be waiting a long time. Confidence comes from taking action.
No, the Career Strategy Lab is not a UX bootcamp or education program. It will not teach you how to do UX. If you are just starting out and are looking for a program to teach you how to do UX, then this program is not for you.
Your access to the program varies depending on which version of the program you choose, either 3 or 6 months.
After your time is up, you’ll have the option to stay in the program and you’ll always have access to the alumni community – where our alumni often share that their teams are hiring and other opportunities!
When you join the program you will receive access to an online portal where you can log in and access all the training materials, tutorials, templates, bonuses, and community. The materials are all on-demand and are not dripped out over time so you can do it on your own schedule and not have to worry about showing up to live lectures.
You will have the opportunity to join our live group coaching calls every week over Zoom where Sarah and our team will answer your questions and help you strategize about specific situations in your career journey. These calls will be recorded so that you can listen later if you can’t attend live. You will be able to submit work for critique every week.
Due to the digital nature of this program and the fact that it contains instantly downloadable templates, workshops and more, we do not offer any refunds for any reason.
No. We do not offer income sharing agreement models for Career Strategy Lab.
You do have the option to use our 3 or 6-month payment plan and spread your payment out. Please note, this is a payment plan and you must complete all the payments.
In other words, the payment plan is not a subscription that you can cancel. When you enroll with our payment plan, you agree to pay all the payments.
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