A thought-leadership series, by experience design agency Foolproof, interviewing the thinkers and doers in User Experience (UX) Strategy.
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Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody | UX, Product Design, UX Research
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Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast, with Sarah Doody, a UX Researcher & Product Designer with 20 years of experience who is helping UX and Product people design their careers. You’ll learn how to advance your UX or Product career including how get hired in UX, stay hired, get promoted, and build a personal brand and visibility. You’ll also hear no BS tips to optimize your UX resume and portfolio, navigate your UX job search, and prepare for UX job interviews so you can stop being invisib ...
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Need quick, actionable insights to sharpen your UX leadership and strategy? Short on time but eager to grow your influence? UX strategist Paul Boag delivers concise, practical episodes designed to enhance your strategic thinking, leadership skills, and impact in user experience. Each bite-sized podcast is just 6-10 minutes—perfect for busy UX leaders and advocates on the go.
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Join us for exciting conversations about UI/UX design, SaaS products, marketing, and so much more. My awesome guests are industry experts who share actionable knowledge — so that you can apply it in your business today.
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By now, we've talked a lot about moving from being an implementer to someone who empowers others. You've started offering supportive services and built out a design system to help teams move faster. But if we're serious about scaling UX across an organization, we need to go even further. We need to make sure people have access to the right tools. B…
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131: Why I don't teach every UX topic (and why my focus is *your* superpower)
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22:38Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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In the last lesson, I talked about the four types of UX resources that can help you scale your influence across the organization. This time, we're going to zero in on one of the most powerful tools at your disposal: the design system. If you want to move from being an implementer to a UX leader, someone who empowers others to create better experien…
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130: From UX Portfolio Rewrites to Hired as a Principal Product Designer: How Steve Owned His Career Story
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20:56Feel like your UX experience is too complex to explain—or too chaotic to package into a clear story? In this open house interview, Steve Sanshwe shares how he went from a chaotic job search and overwhelming case studies to landing a Principal Product Designer role—faster than he expected and at a higher level than he applied for. Steve explains how…
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So far in this series, we've been shifting your role from implementer to advisor. You've worked hard to win trust, define a strategy, and begin shaping the way your organization approaches user experience. But, just because people agree with your strategy doesn't mean they're ready to run with it. Most stakeholders are busy. Many aren't confident d…
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129: Get Hired in UX Faster With Peloton Inspired UX Career Coaching
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25:41What does your UX job search have in common with Peloton? A lot more than you think. In this episode, Sarah shares the behind-the-scenes story of how a treadmill class in NYC and a Peloton bike helped her design Career Strategy Lab. You’ll learn how the principles of group fitness at scale inspired the structure, energy, and effectiveness of this U…
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In the last email, I talked about shifting your role from implementer to advisor. I know that can feel uncomfortable, maybe even a bit risky. Letting go of direct control means trusting others to do UX work, and let's be honest, at first they probably won't do it as well as you would. But, they don't have to be perfect. What matters is that they st…
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128: How this 30 year UX veteran went from feeling irrelevant to in control of her career
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19:16Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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127: The $100K Shift: Why Working 'ON' Your Career (vs 'IN' it) Changes Everything
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23:43Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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Overcoming Objections and Gaining Support for Your UX Strategy
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5:29In the last email, I talked about presenting your UX vision to stakeholders and leadership. We looked at how to focus on the value you offer and how to tailor that message to your audience's specific needs. But, successfully driving through your strategy involves more than just a well-crafted presentation. It also needs a strategic approach when yo…
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126: From UX Layoff to Leadership: How Duncan got hired as a Global Head of UX after a restructure
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20:29After being laid off from his UX position, Duncan Abel wasn’t sure how to package his 20+ years of UX experience—or if he even wanted to stay in the field. In this candid conversation, Duncan shares how Career Strategy Lab gave him the structure, community, and confidence to move forward and land a global UX leadership role at the British Standards…
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In the last email, we talked about sketching out your UX strategy. Not a polished final document, but a draft that clarifies your direction and invites collaboration. But that strategy is only useful if people buy into it. And that means you now need to switch hats: from strategist to storyteller. That's what this week is all about: how to present …
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125: Career Strategy Lab Coaches Unfiltered: What you don’t see on sales pages or social media
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25:44In this special “coaches takeover” episode, Career Strategy Lab coaches Erin, Steph, and Becca go behind the scenes to talk candidly about what actually happens inside Career Strategy Lab. From client wins and transformations to what makes CSL different from other career programs, you’ll hear their real talk on what works, who thrives, and why this…
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In the last lesson, I said we’d be talking next about how to present your ideas to management. But, jumping into that too soon could actually backfire. If you go to leadership now with nothing but frustrations and vague intentions, it’s likely to come across as a complaint. And that’s not what you’re aiming for. You're not there to moan about the s…
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124: Why Sarah Doody's UX portfolio framework still works after 20 years
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29:04Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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Auditing Your UX Resources: Making the Most of What You Have
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3:23In previous lessons, we've discussed aligning your UX role with organizational goals and understanding your current position. Today, let’s explore the tangible resources you already have. Many UX leaders instinctively request more people, budget, or time. While there’s a place for such requests (which we'll cover later), effective UX leadership beg…
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123: How a 25-Year UX veteran rewrote his career story & reclaimed his confidence
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16:35Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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In the previous lesson, I asked you to take an initial look at your role, your resources, and your reach. Now, over the next three lessons, we're going to dive into those three areas in more detail, starting with your role and how it aligns with something much bigger: your organization's goals. Because if you want UX to be seen as more than a suppo…
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122: How Marcus Got Hired as a UX Researcher After Six Months of Rejection
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14:51Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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Hi there, In Lesson 1 we travelled from Roman amphitheaters to modern apps and saw that user experience is not what many consider it to be and needs repositioning. In Lesson 2 I asked whether you’re ready to lead that charge inside your organization. Today we roll up our sleeves and start that journey. The UX Maturity Spectrum Organizations vary wi…
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121: Your UX Job Search Has Cost You 5-Figures. What To Do About It
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22:54In this episode, UX Researcher & Product Designer, Sarah Doody, shares a tool she created to calculate the ROI of your UX job search. You can watch the episode here and if you wish, get your own personalized UX job search calculator. You might think your DIY job search is saving you money, but the truth is, it’s likely costing you tens of thousands…
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Understanding Where You Fit If you're reading this, chances are you're passionate about user experience. But maybe UX isn't actually in your job title. Perhaps you're a marketer, project manager, developer, copywriter, or business analyst who deeply cares about making your products better for users. Or you might be a UX designer or researcher feeli…
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120: How a Sr UX Researcher got hired at Amazon after a layoff & 2 year job search
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24:17Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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BDTP. Marketing Channels vs Programs with Asia Orangio
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50:14Today we have another episode of Better Done Than Perfect. Listen in as we talk to Asia Orangio, founder and CEO of DemandMaven. You'll learn about the five growth levers you can pull, why you might be doing OKRs wrong, how to know which marketing programs to double down on, and more. Please head over to the episode page for the detailed recap and …
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From Amphitheaters to Apps: The Evolution of User Experience
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10:40From Amphitheaters to Apps: The Evolution of User Experience Long before we had screens, scroll wheels, or skeuomorphism, we were already wrestling with what it meant to design for humans. Take the Roman Colosseum, for example. Built nearly two thousand years ago, this wasn’t just a feat of architecture—it was a carefully orchestrated user experien…
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119: Why you should research the interviewers before a job interview
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11:52Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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If LinkedIn is to be believed UX design is a hot mess right now. People are regularly announcing that death of UX, complaining they cannot get jobs and entire companies are abandoning the term UX for product design. Not to mention the fact that AI will supposedly be replacing us all. If you care at all about improving the user experience, this will…
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118: 3 things your UX job search has in common with soap operas
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16:15Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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117: Applied to 100s of UX jobs? Consider this your intervention
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20:08Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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Are Synthetic Personas Smart UX—or Just Clever Illusions?
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6:09Hello all. I admit, I didn't expect much. In fact, I was fully prepared to dismiss it as just another AI gimmick—a shiny distraction from real user research. But after experimenting with using AI-generated personas (or "synthetic personas," as they're being called), I found myself in a strange new territory: genuinely impressed. If you're skeptical…
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116: How to optimize your resume for the ATS so you can get more UX job interviews
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26:18Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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Episode 292: Using Tokens in Design Systems with Jan Six
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32:30How can tokens help your design and development teams become more efficient? Our guest today is Jan Six, staff product designer at GitHub and co-creator of Tokens Studio. You’ll learn how design components and tokens correlate on a technical level, why adoption is the biggest challenge in design systems, how you can get started with creating your o…
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115: How this UX Designer escaped UX portfolio burnout and rebuilt his entire UX job search strategy
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22:17Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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114: From Laid Off to Senior UX Designer: How Sarah Landed Her Dream Role
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21:41Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram In this spec…
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I bet that subject line made you think this email was going to be about the importance of focusing on usability. But actually, we shouldn't be. Too many UX designers I meet are obsessed with making things as seamless and streamlined as possible. That’s great—up to a point. But usability isn't our entire job. In fact, focusing too much on usability …
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113: How a Senior Product Designer got promoted with a 37% increase in total compensation
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12:06Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram Promotions d…
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As UX advocates and practitioners, we tend to focus on the immediate project at hand—the website, the app, the product interface. But that’s only a fraction of the actual user experience. Every digital interaction a person has with an organization shapes their perception. The problem? Most companies treat these interactions in silos, leading to a f…
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112: How Emily tripled her UX freelance rate from $35 to $125 / hour (and got a full time job too)
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14:43Want to get hired in UX faster? Click here. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher who also founded the UX job search accelerator Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram In this episode of the Career Strategy Podcast, Sarah D…
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Today we have another episode of Better Done Than Perfect. Listen in as we talk to Connor Joyce, senior user researcher at Microsoft and author of Bridging Intention to Impact. You'll learn why you need to ask if your product is really working, the five success metrics for products, some approaches to collecting behavioral data, and more. Please he…
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111: Hidden costs of navigating your UX job search alone
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31:06Applied to 50+ UX or Product jobs & still no interviews or offers? Get UX job search help. Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017. Follow Sarah on: LinkedIn | YouT…
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Hello there, I’d like to share some thoughts on developing your UX strategy and redefining your role. It is a topic that feels particularly important at the moment, with UX leaders facing plenty of challenges—from under-resourced teams to the ongoing pressure of delivering measurable business benefits. By clarifying your role and articulating a cle…
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110: How Jane Got Hired As A Principal Product Researcher After Emigrating To The USA With No Professional Network
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21:34In this episode, we’re taking you inside a Career Strategy Lab Open House, where we chat with Jane, a UX researcher who landed a Principal UX Researcher role at Whole Foods—despite having no prior U.S. work experience or connections! Jane’s story is an incredible example of what’s possible when you shift from a scarcity mindset to a strategic appro…
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109: How cohorts can hold you back and why Career Strategy Lab takes a different approach
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20:27Many career coaching programs use cohort-based models to keep participants accountable. But do they really work? In today’s episode, we’re tackling a common question: Is Career Strategy Lab’s UX Job Search Accelerator run in cohorts? Spoiler alert—it's not! And there’s a very good reason why. Host Sarah Doody breaks down why strict cohort schedules…
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Is research still a great investment? Our guest today is Alice Lee, Strategy Director at Work & Co. You’ll learn about their shippable user research process, how to ask the right questions about things you don’t know, how they helped GoFundMe with their charity action page, and more. Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R …
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One of the biggest mistakes I see organizations make when it comes to their internal user experience is how they procure software. Too often, companies buy platforms that are completely unfit for purpose or have been deployed straight out of the box with no configuration. The Problem with Poor Software Procurement This problem is more damaging than…
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108: Why you're stuck redesigning your UX resume & how to get out of a career rut
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24:24If you’ve been stuck in an endless cycle of tweaking, redesigning, and overanalyzing your UX resume, this episode is for you. Sarah breaks down why perfectionism keeps you from landing interviews, how to shift your mindset, and what you should focus on instead. She also shares why conflicting resume advice from too many sources slows you down and h…
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107: Your UX Career Is a Product (Sarah Doody's interview on the Awkward Silences podcast by User Interviews)
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50:34This episode of the Career Strategy Podcast features Sarah's interview on the Awkward Silences Podcast by User Interviews. In this episode, Sarah Doody is interviewed by Erin May, the CMO of User Interviews, and John-Henry Forster, who at the time of recording was the SVP of Product at User Interviews. Join them as they dive deep into treating your…
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NOW OPEN: We have 20 spots in our UX Job Search Accelerator (doors close Jan 31 at 8pm PT)
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11:29This is a reminder that enrollment opens TODAY (Jan 29) at 4pm ET Career Strategy Lab's 3-month UX Job Search Accelerator. Here is the page to learn more or join: www.careerstrategylab.com/sprint ... enrollment will close on Fri, Jan 31 at 8pm PT. Career Strategy Lab helps you optimize and finish your resume, portfolio, LinkedIn, etc and position y…
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106: How Steven Navigated ADD In His UX Job Search & Got Hired As a Design Researcher
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19:21In this inspiring episode of the Career Strategy Podcast, Sarah sits down with Steven, a Career Strategy Lab (CSL) alum who transitioned from uncertainty to launching his own UX research agency. Steven reflects on his journey, from overcoming self-doubt as a career switcher to building confidence, leveraging mentorship, and creating a sustainable b…
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BDTP. Bullseye Customer Research with Michael Margolis
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29:47Today we have another episode of Better Done Than Perfect. Listen in as we talk to Michael Margolis, UX Research Partner at Google Ventures. You'll learn about their bullseye customer sprint, the difference between an ideal customer profile and the bullseye customer, how to apply prototypes, and more. Please head over to the episode page for the de…
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