Find a perfect UX/Product design job for you (even in the middle of the tech crisis). By the end of 3 weeks, you’ll have a portfolio structure, and application strategy, and know the pitfalls to avoid! Expect hands on program full of lectures, workshops, homework & feedbacks.
Find the right UX/Product design job for you. Build your application strategy, and portfolio structure and avoid the most common pitfalls. Expect a hands-on program full of lectures, workshops, homework & feedback. You will also get 5 plug & play templates for your job search (CV, Job tracker, Reflection board, Interview questions, Whiteboarding sessions, Case study).
An early career designer creating their first portfolio and looking for one of their first jobs.
Who're looking to level up their portfolio to enter a tougher hiring market or grow to the next level.
Who wants to know what they should be looking for in design candidates.
In this lesson, you will be introduced to the hiring processes, understand the problems that might prevent you from succeeding, and get to know effective mindsets to help you finding a dream job.
1. Ice-breaker
2. Three most common problems
3. Three directives to focus on
4. Hiring process and funnel mindset
In this lesson, you'll learn to understand companies and build your application strategy. You will learn why you should stop blindly applying to 100s of jobs and instead start targeting the right companies for you.
1. KYC (know your customer)
2. Define target company design maturity
3. Define your career level
4. Understand and choose B2C or B2B
In this lesson, you will learn to start from yourself, understand your professional interests, and values, and define where you'll be a perfect fit.
1. Start with yourself. Complete 'Reflection canvas'
2. Define your career level
3. Research the right companies
In this lesson, you will learn about the most effective places to find a job and how to get your feet at the door (especially with a junior portfolio)
1. Secret to getting your feet at the door
2. Networking strategies and tips
3. 8 key mistakes to avoid early on
In this lesson, you will learn how to create an effective CV, web portfolio, and case studies. We'll look into the most common mistakes, formats, examples, and structures. You'll create your portfolio skeleton.
1. Create your CV
2. Outline web portfolio skeleton
3. Understand effective case study structures
In this lesson, you will be prepared for job interviews and presentations. This is one of the most crucial stages, so you'll learn a lot of smart tactics for approaching this stage.
1. Get ready for the job interviews
2. Prepare for presentations
3. Build a case study presentation structure
In this lesson, you will be prepared for design thinking challenges. You'll learn what to expect fro each of the types, and how to approach and get access to 50+ design prompts most FAANG companies ask their applicants.
1. Approaching the whiteboarding challenge
2. Approaching app critique challenge
3. Approaching the take-home challenge
This is a practical workshop class. Each of the students will be given a personal design prompt, will be presenting the results, and get feedback at the end.
In this lesson, you will learn how to evaluate job offers, understand total comps (including benefits), learn to negotiate payments, and even deal with rejections
1. Evaluating job offer(s)
2. Negotiate payment
3. Learn how to deal with rejections
A small percentage of the course fees go towards furthering free mentorship on adplist.org
Senior product designer at MEWS and design trainer with over 10y of experience
Currently working at MEWS. During the last 7 years, she's also been a content creator (known as Anfisign), podcaster (Honest UX talks), UX courses creator (intoUX.design), and a mentor.
I’m enjoying so much in the course!! Haha, I’m eager to see more and more and more! You brought me more light into this :)
Hernán Pereyra Oviedo
Senior Product Designer at Eurowings Digital
I would like to thank you for being supportive in every step. It was not only one of the most detailed course in UX but also a mentoring program for me. I have gained confidence that definitely affected my UX job interviews. And as an ultimate goal, I have landed my dream job in a product company as a UX designer. This is the best decision I have ever taken for my career and myself.
Deniz INCE
UX/UI Designer at TeamViewer
I am in love with this experience! If you want to have an understanding of UX application process in depth in a fully applicable way to the market, just come and get on board. Anfisa rocks!
Pedro Silva
Product Designer at Gympass
This course is absolutely perfect for anyone. It doesn't matter if you are an absolute UX baby or advanced, Anfisa is an amazing teacher, who's making sure that she will pass every single piece of knowledge and resource, that she has. 11/10, would go through this again!
Lisa Martinovska
Senior Product Designer at MEE6
I love this course so much. Every piece of information was very useful for me. Someone may think I'm exaggerating, but it helped me streamline my whole process and answered a lot of questions.
Anastasiia Pidlypenets
Product Designer at Hapag-Lloyd AG
I joined this course thinking that I'll get information, tools, some stories & case studies but it excessed my expectation. I found it really helpful, energetic and filled with passion and the right emphasizes.
Ahmed Faris Mansour
Senior Product Designer at Weaveworks
This course is designed for any product / UX designer who want to save time and find a dream job in weeks, not years. This course will not only share with you all the strategies and prepare you for the application process, but all share with you all the templates and resources to set you up for success.
You don't have to have an experience in the job-hunting process. This program will cover all you need to know. However, you do need to have product design/UX experience or a few projects you've worked on. Unfortunately, the industry requires you to have at least student experience to break into UX.
No, you can build your application strategy and portfolio using any tools of your choice. However, it will benefit you greatly if you use Figma/Figjam and Webflow in the past.
After completing this course you’ll have an application strategy, and portfolio structure, know all the pitfalls to avoid, and get access to many more resources to help you succeed in your job-hunting journey.
Yes! And that's the beauty of the cohort-based course. You'll receive personal feedback about your CV, strategy, portfolio, and whiteboarding challenge.
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