Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody | UX, Product Design, UX Research

192: UX Hiring Insights: Sylvain Maretto, Director of Design, on Why AI Hasn't Taken Over Hiring and What He Looks for in UX Portfolios

UX hiring managers are looking for three things right now, and UX isn't specifically one of them. Not exactly reassuring if you've spent years polishing your process page

191: UX Portfolio Myth: Your personality is not what UX recruiters want in your portfolio (Myth 5 / 5)

Adding personality to your UX portfolio is one of the most repeated pieces of advice in the industry, and Sarah closes out her five part portfolio myth series by explaini

190: UX Portfolio Myth: You can't show projects that didn't launch (Myth 4 / 5)

UX portfolio projects that didn't launch or didn't go as planned are exactly the kind of work recruiters and hiring managers want to see, not the kind you should hide. 

189: UX Portfolio Myth: Your case studies don't need to show the full UX process (Myth 3 / 5)

UX portfolio case studies don't need to walk through every single step of your process, and trying to do that is actually working against you. This is week three of a fiv

188: UX Portfolio Myth: Your UX portfolio does not need to be a website (Myth 2 / 5)

UX portfolio websites eat up months, sometimes years, of time that could be spent applying, and Sarah argues you don't need one at all. This is week two of a five part se

187: UX Portfolio Myth: You don't need 3 - 5 projects in your UX portfolio (Myth 1 / 5)

UX portfolio advice is full of numbers that sound official but aren't backed by anything. This episode kicks off a five part series on UX portfolio myths, starting with t

186: Why Positioning Is The Most Underrated Skill in the AI Era of UX

Positioning is quietly becoming the skill that separates people who stand out in UX and product from people who get left behind, especially now that AI can build almost a

185: The one thing you can't DIY in your UX job search

DIYing your UX job search feels productive right up until you realize you've been doing it for six months, twelve months, or longer with nothing to show for it. If you've

184: Natalie got hired for a Director level UX role (and now she's the one hiring for UX roles)

Landing a Director level UX role doesn't happen by accident, and neither does becoming the person on the other side of the hiring table a few months later.  Natalie Kurz

183: 3 Things I’d Do If I Was Laid Off From a UX Role Today

Just laid off from a UX role? If you’re tempted to open LinkedIn and easy-apply to every role with UX in the job title, don't do it!  In this episode of the Career Strat

182: 6 ways you'll get hired in UX faster with Career Strategy Lab (the tour you've been asking for)

This episode is a full walkthrough of how you'll get hired in UX faster with Career Strategy Lab and exactly what happens after you join. Sarah shares what genuinely help

181: How UX people are leveraging relationships to get hired with the help of Career Strategy Lab

The UX job market is rough right now. If your LinkedIn feed looks anything like Sarah's, you already know that. But while everyone is complaining about the market, almost

180: UX Hiring Insights: Eric Shumake on Healthcare UX, Specializing, & Thinking of Your Career as Gigs​​

Most UX professionals spend years trying to be good at everything. Eric Shumake, founder of HXR Labs, spent 20 years getting really good at one thing and it kept opening

179: Feel Burnt Out & Invisible in Your UX Job Search? How Emmanuel Re-Entered the UX Job Market After a Career Break

Re-entering the UX job market after years away is harder than most people expect, especially when you're doing it alone. After 12 years at Constant Contact, growing from

178: Stop Mass Applying: How Carlos Got Hired in UX and Promoted to Senior Product Designer

If you're sending dozens of applications per day and you aren't hearing back, this podcast is for you. Carlos was applying to dozens of UX jobs a day, swiping through li

177: Getting ghosted in your UX job search? You're not invisible — you're unpositioned

Are you getting ghosted in your UX job search despite knowing you're qualified? When you have 5, 10, 15 years of experience and you're applying to 20+ jobs a week without

176: Stuck at the Final Round of UX Interviews? Andrew Re-Did His UX Portfolio and Got 3 Offers (Including Blue Origin)

What do you do when you have years of experience, you're making it through rounds of interviews, but you still aren't getting offers? For Andrew, the answer was scrapping

175: How to Deal with NDAs When Creating Your UX Portfolio

NDAs stop a lot of UX professionals from including their best work in their portfolio, but they might not be the obstacle you think they are. Sarah has spent nearly a de

174: The Bar to Stand Out As A UX Candidate is Lower Than You Think

Have you been applying to UX jobs you know you're qualified for and still not hearing back? Chances are, your experience isn't the problem, it's how you're presenting it.

173: UX Hiring Insights: Jeni Bible, UX Manager at Home Depot, on How She Got Hired, What She Looks for in Candidates, & Presenting UX Case Studies

Do you ever wonder what happens on the other side of a UX job application, like who's reading your portfolio, what makes them keep going, and what makes them close the ta