UX Career Playbook
🧪 Personality Tests
Some employers believe in these and are interested to know what kind of personality a candidate has.
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My thoughts, ideas, advice, and opinions on entrepreneurship and building businesses as a UX designer, UX career, travelling, and stuff.
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🤩 How To Stand Out
Treat it as your unique strength. There is no other person in the whole world with the exact combination of those.
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🦄 Personal Brand
The only way to truly stand out and find your way is to crystallise your brand.
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🚀 Side Projects
My very first UX design case study was a side project. It helped me go through the whole process and share my thoughts.
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🔦 Portfolio Examples
Trends come and go, if you decide to ride a trend wave, chances are it will get outdated very fast.
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📑 Case Studies
The main interest is primarily your thinking and decision-making, and visual design is secondary. But...
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🍱 Portfolio Tips
I find lots of advice valuable, but keep in mind that some hiring managers may have different opinions (as humans usually do 😄)
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🤐 Hidden Job Market
Some companies have more favourable treatment of referred candidates, while others are fairer and do not give any extra points when evaluating talent.
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👔 LinkedIn Profile Tips
LinkedIn has become a monopoly in the corporate jobs world. It gets less and less usable, but it's still the major channel for finding a job.
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📝 Cover Letter Tips
Some hiring managers are ok with getting this information not as a separate document but in the body of the email communication.
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📄 Resume Tips
Simple, structured layouts focusing on content and clarity is a the winner.
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🛜 Networking Tips
Be humble. Give before you ask.
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👀 Job Search Tips
They receive dozens and sometimes hundreds of applications per week.
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🧠 Psychology
Provide a rationale for your design decisions and build trust with your colleagues.
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📜 UX Certifications
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🥾 UX Bootcamps
Seeing a boot camp in the Education section on the resume could get you immediately dismissed.
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🎓 UX Degrees vs Self-taught
Both options have pros and cons that will depend on your particular circumstances.
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🔄 Transitioning Careers
Accomplishments and learnings from your previous career can be relevant to the UX world.