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You're talented but can't land a design job. The reason: • 70% jobs never posted • 300+ applications per role • Wrong approach to opportunities The solution: - Stop applying. -> Start positioning. The outcome: • Access hidden opportunities • Bypass competition • Get noticed instantly How? Join our webinar this evening to learn how you can position yourself to land a job. And you know the catch! No experience needed! See you at 6:00 PM WAT

What makes a careers website truly great? You might be tempted to focus on flashy features, intricate designs, or elements that make it stand out. However, if there’s one factor you can confidently invest in, it’s simplicity. Discover why simplicity matters and how it drives success in our latest blog article: https://lnkd.in/dWrgtpsf

Feeling stuck in your design career? We’ve all been there, and it happens even to the best of us. During times like these, it’s important to be kind to yourself. Take a step back and create something you love. Learn something you’ve always wanted to explore. This can give you a fresh creative outlet and help unblock your next steps. Remember to be patient and gentle with yourself. Effort doesn’t always equal immediate results, but with consistency, your efforts will compound and lead to progress. How have you overcome being stuck in your career?

Hey Top Designers — Yes, you! The one that salivates over the perfect font. Secretly wish you could draw as fluid as your iPen glides… #PayItForward I usually promote job listings that I know are legit: great company, low employee bounce rate, remote, well paid, and solid book…then I #PayItForward Wanna help? Look around, do you see a talent y’all wish your company had? REFER talent to your CD’s. Once we see it, we can’t unsee it. We will remember their talent for any project we need help with. Oh! And repost my job listing posts on LinkedIn. Like Ryan here, he was referred to me by an INCREDIBLE Production Manager, Helena Abbing. I trust her after over a decade of knowing and working with her freelance. I looked at Ryan’s work…easy post. He’s talented, extreme typography skills, and he’s experienced (so little time ramping him up and his ROI is on day ☝🏽). You know that gif you watched before you opened this? Ryan created that, yup he’s a motion graphic artist as well. So do what you’d like to happen to you if you were in their shoes: #PayItForward Oh! If you do get Ryan hired, I’ll take y’all out to dinner to celebrate. Cross my 💙 Still reading? I just referred Ryan to a friend that just got a job with Para—— a major movie company. Look at the comments. See? It took a couple of sentences for me to introduce them. Now? It’s up to them to make the connection work into a meaningful conversation.

Here is the most underrated tip for increasing your chances of landing a job as a product designer. 👇 ❌ Do not follow the crowd when applying for jobs. Most designers apply for jobs that already have hundreds of applicants, making it tough to stand out and decreasing your chances of success. I landed my last job by specifically avoiding high volumes of applicants. I operated differently than the competition by targeting companies that did not have many applicants. This greatly boosted my chances of landing a job, as I was not competing with the masses in the later stages. 🍀 Repost if you found the above valuable.

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰: - Senior ICs who can come onboard and hit the ground running; work at speed, but also don't lose the quality. 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟐 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬: - Pure UX Designers - Design managers, 100% people-focused. My advice would be: → Craft your Resume to what companies are really looking for. Less 100% management, more "doing". → It's sometimes all about who you know in the market - leverage old clients, teams, and people you know. Referrals are soooooooo important. → Follow up your applications - Remember there are hundreds of people applying for these roles now, in comparison to the 20-50 applications you would get in 2021! Make yourself stand out! Adapting to the ever-changing market needs is tough, I get it! Reach out if you need any help navigating How is everyone else finding the Design market?

I lost my job within the first month of joining! Here’s what I learned: ↳ Communicate better to understand employer needs ↳ Step out of your comfort zone to grow ↳ Don’t let others' opinions define your skill set It hurt at first, but I didn’t let one setback define me. Instead, I: ↳ Refocused on improving myself ↳ Stopped worrying about how others viewed my abilities ↳ Embraced the challenge as an opportunity to grow For business owners: Encourage open communication and push your team to step up. For fellow designers: Every challenge is a chance to sharpen your skills. Setbacks are part of the journey—what matters is how you bounce back. If you're looking for someone who values growth, communication, and adaptability, let's connect! How have you handled similar setbacks? Share in the comments!

What's better than a good product? A great platform. I stumbled across Vouch 🤝 the talent referral platform a while back, and right away, I loved it. It was fresh, simple, and easy to use. UI and UX to the moon. At the same time, my friend, fresh out of uni and looking for a job, was hitting dead ends. While browsing Vouch, I spotted a role at Telescope (Former Ei Solutions) that I thought was a perfect fit for both. I vouched. He got hired. Now he's building out the Product Design function, transforming the product’s visual identity, and bringing design principles to life. Got a friend, colleague, or someone in your network ready for a new opportunity? Go check out https://vouch.careers/ I vouched. He got hired. Bob's your uncle 🤝

I find that identifying component responsibilities to be key here. My standard process is Use the use case timeline to drive analysis of 1) what decisions and actions need to happen, 2) what information is required (in & out) 3) what are the component boundaries and responsibilities 4) what inter component communication is needed Once the components and messaging are defined work can begin inside component boundaries safely and quickly. Then the components are wired together as black boxes to solve the users problem. Easy to build easy to test, every step is simple and quick.

TL;DR: back in the US, moved to the Bay Area, looking for a new role and new connections in the UX Research and Design communities. After almost 2 years in New Zealand, I’m back in the United States. It’s difficult to put into words just how much this experience meant to me — I am so grateful to the people I met, and to have had the chance to explore life in a different place. From taking Māori language classes to hiking in the South Island to running around the gorgeous Wellington bays to attending far too many cricket and rugby matches, I embarked on so many different types of adventures that have completely reshaped the way I see the world. While it wasn’t one of the reasons I went, I also really enjoyed working outside of the US and getting to know the nuances of my profession in a different context. Being a part of the Ministry of Justice - New Zealand was a fantastic foray into government work, and I loved being a Service Designer. I feel so lucky to have found such a wonderful team of supportive, kind people, and to have worked on some interesting projects to help increase accessibility to justice services. Also while abroad, I wrapped up my Master’s Degree in Anthropology from The New School. I took my last few courses online, and got to hang out in the National Library of New Zealand to do the last bits of research for my essay portfolio. I focused on the cultural perception of intangible technology like cloud storage, email, data centers, and the internet, and a big part of my work was the Dataspace project that is up on my portfolio (and is linked below). After a bit of a cool-down post-diploma, I’ve been thinking about this work a lot lately as concerns about energy consumption and space start to seep into the discourse about AI (finally!). I have spent the last month spending time with family and friends and soaking up the SoCal sun, but have now moved up to Oakland and am ready to begin my job search in earnest now. This is honestly a terrifying time to be looking for a job — every time I open up LinkedIn I see another post about layoffs, extremely long job searches, and the poor state of the UX industry in general. I am trying my very best to not let that get in my head, and to look at this transition as a way to make new connections in a new place and find a community to foster this next stage of my career. So now, an ask: if anything I’ve written about is interesting to you, I’d love to chat! If you know someone in the Bay that you think I should talk to, let me know! If you happen to be hiring for a mid-level UX Researcher, Service Designer, or research-leaning UXer (or know someone who is), let’s connect! Thanks in advance, and thank you if you managed to get to through this whole post!