About the event:
Are you looking to become highly hirable or land your first UX role in the tough job market? Do you want to avoid wasting months (or even years) receiving countless demotivating rejections b/c you “lack experience”?
While you might be just starting to learn or already have some UX skills and projects in your portfolio, you may have heard that what will ultimately get you hired is professional experience and a strong portfolio with real comprehensive UX case studies.
However, how on earth do you get there and solve this eternal catch-22 problem? Turns out, there are ways to do that and become a highly hirable candidate who can stand out in the sea of other candidates with only hypothetical projects or weaker portfolios. (Moreover, you do not actually have to first get a full-time UX job to achieve that :)
Join this interactive virtual fireside chat to learn from a UX practitioner who overcame these challenges, got hired and currently works at Capital One.
You will learn about his journey, the key roadblocks, and how exactly he built real UX work experience and an awesome portfolio with strong case studies and started his UX career.
If you want an opportunity to learn from those who successfully accomplished exactly what you are looking to do, we invite you to join this event - so you can also become highly marketable and nail that first UX job search.
Guests / Speakers:
- Mitchell Thomas - Senior Product Designer at Capital One; former UX at Metric5 and Society for Neuroscience
- Michael Lapin - Host, Founder and Executive Director at Beginex UX Career Accelerator.
Event Format:
Talk + Interactive Virtual Fireside Chat + Q&A
Date & Time:
Thursday, February 26th, 6:30 PM ET
Schedule (approximate):
- Introduction / Quick Talk (5-10 min)
- Interactive Fireside Chat & Audience Q&A (40-55 min)
- More Audience Q&A (10-20 min)
- Wrap-up (5 min)
Takeaways:
- Meet a senior UX professional from Capital One, learn about his background and get advice
- Network and meet other UX / product design people
- Learn how to build a great portfolio that will give you an advantage in a competitive job market
- Understand what strong and effective case studies look like and where to get those
- Learn from the guest’s fascinating journey, who successfully landed his first UX role
- Find out how to gain the real work experience most employers require (w/o quitting your job)
- Find out how to make yourself a highly attractive candidate employers really want to hire
- Learn how the guest landed their first UX job in a tough job market
- Ask your pressing portfolio & work experience questions and receive personalized career advice