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‼️ Your portfolio may not be doing you justice ‼️ If you're just including pictures of your work and not explaining them, your portfolio is honestly incomplete. Diving into the problem you were looking to solve, your role on the project, how you iterated, and the impact of your work will give hiring managers and recruiters a better sense of your real skills. TLDR? You need case studies. Take your portfolio to the next level. #portfoliotips #jobsearch #designportfolio

Are you ready to redefine your design career narrative? Let's explore a common myth together and unravel the hidden challenges. Myth  2: Doing More Work Will Evolve My Career 🌆 As designers, you do your best to continue to bring more value to the companies that you work for, going beyond your job description. Some corporations call this secondment work. Yet, at the end of the year review do you end up finding that with everything you've done to go above and beyond, it goes unseen? This is actually a very common pattern with design professionals. 🏗️ The myth: Doing more work alone won't advance your career. 🚀 As designers, we're passionate about solving diverse problems and pushing our boundaries. However, there's a common trap – this kind of "scope creep” is very prevalent with intrapreneurs.  🔍 Hidden scope creep is a significant issue for design professionals. Many professionals find themselves tackling a broad range of tasks, yet their roles and benchmarks remain unchanged. Have you ever felt excited to solve more problems, only to realize that your agreed-upon responsibilities don't align with the new challenges you've taken on? 💡This is a major blindspot for designers. Often, it's something we are not even aware of, and even when we are it's hard for us to personally change that behavior to resolve the issue. It's crucial to ensure that your growth and contributions are acknowledged. Let's navigate this challenge together and ensure your career trajectory aligns with your evolving role. Visit ThriveByDesign.today to secure your spot  or connect with me for a private session. 📆 to discuss strategies for managing scope creep and advancing your design career. 📈 Yeh IDeology #ThriveByDesign #DesignCareer #CareerAdvancement #DesignCareer #ScopeCreep #CareerGrowth #DesignStrategies

📝 Daily I have portfolio checks and reviews with design professionals. What would be my tips and tricks on wowing hiring managers with your portfolio? Read this post and find out! For digital designers having a strong portfolio is key in the application process. As I look through several applications a day, I wanted to share some tips & tricks with you that are important to take into account when designing your own portfolio (according to the CARL method). 💠Provide Context; Explain the challenge of the organisation and what needed to be investigated. Why were you needed to improve the digital experience?  💠Explain which Actions you carried out to get to the pain points and what actions you took to minimise these.  💠Now focus on what Result you achieved. Was the problem solved? And what improvements did you make?  💠It’s always good to reflect back on the process and share your Learnings. What are some key takeaways and what would you do similarly or differently during a next project?  💠It’s important to show visuals, but don’t over do it. In general: Keep it structured and organised. If you want to discuss this, or interesting job opportunities. Then reach out to me and let’s hop on a video call!  📞

10 prompts to help show a journey instead of a process with your #portfolio You can tell me which are your favourite! Was recently speaking with a junior designer on getting into the industry and crafting their folio. It’s a tough market out there right now but to be blunt one of the biggest problems may face is their case studies all look / read the same way. It is hard to stand out when every role posted gets 300+ applications within hours. My advice was to write their case study differently. Don’t give a generic step by step breakdown of your process Instead start with answering some “more interesting” prompts and build from there Prompts such as: 1. The biggest challenge I had was… 2. We found a gap in our knowledge around… 3. We unexpectedly learnt… 4. Our first attempt didn’t work because… 5. I am most proud of… 6. I was really surprised by… 7. The key impact we had was… 8. We had to adapt because…. 9. My biggest takeaway was… 10. We had to take a step back because… Not all of those thing will be relevant or should be in there - you’re not writing a novel. But ultimately you want to show your thinking on top of just how you execute. 👉 Give recruiters and hiring managers something that will hold their interest for the 60ish seconds you have it! #Design #Hiring #Talent

This newsletter from Sarah Doody with the Career Strategy Lab resonates with me. As a community-based researcher and coordinator, I always keep a few active hard-copy journals around. Notes of influential stakeholders in the community, jottings of geographical spaces used by community members, phone numbers, addresses, nicknames, heavily utilized social institutions, etc. These living journals help me stay accountable to community members whose voices are at the center of my work. https://lnkd.in/g__sJgbb TODAY'S PROFESSIONAL POWER UP A career tip to help you be more strategic Always be documenting your work We've likely all experienced that sinking feeling "omg I need to update my resume and I can't remember what I specifically did for the past 3 years" ... the solution is to always be documenting your work. This does not mean you need to write a detailed essay about every single project you work on. By creating and maintaining something that I refer to as a Career Project Diary you'll in essence have breadcrumbs of projects you work on. Then, when you do have to update your resume, or it's time for a performance review, or someone asks you about something months after you worked on it, you'll have a document to refer back to. A Career Project Diary can be as simple as a Google Doc or Sheet you periodically update (ideally once a quarter) ... so don't stress out and think you need to create a beautiful no-code software-like system in Notion or something else ;) 

"Steve Jobs once said, 'Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.' Let's dive deeper into the art of design and its true essence! . . . #DesignMatters #SteveJobsWisdom #DigitalEra #OnlineSuccess #BusinessGrowth #DigitalTransformation #asiaservices

10 prompts to help show a journey instead of a process with your #portfolio You can tell me which are your favourite! Was recently speaking with a junior designer on getting into the industry and crafting their folio. It’s a tough market out there right now but to be blunt one of the biggest problems may face is their case studies all look / read the same way. It is hard to stand out when every role posted gets 300+ applications within hours. My advice was to write their case study differently. Don’t give a generic step by step breakdown of your process Instead start with answering some “more interesting” prompts and build from there Prompts such as: 1. The biggest challenge I had was… 2. We found a gap in our knowledge around… 3. We unexpectedly learnt… 4. Our first attempt didn’t work because… 5. I am most proud of… 6. I was really surprised by… 7. The key impact we had was… 8. We had to adapt because…. 9. My biggest takeaway was… 10. We had to take a step back because… Not all of those thing will be relevant or should be in there - you’re not writing a novel. But ultimately you want to show your thinking on top of just how you execute. 👉 Give recruiters and hiring managers something that will hold their interest for the 60ish seconds you have it! #Design #Hiring #Talent

Quick update on new PM & Design jobs that we have added to our jobs page uxhack.co/jobs We curate these jobs from multiple sources to put up the ones we find most relevant. We also share a weekly update on our Whatsapp and Telegram channels, besides socials Links in the first comment #jobs #userexperience #design #pm

Let’s assume you are a product designer looking for a job. You’ve tried many things: following multiple trainings, completing pro-bono work, building a portfolio with solid case studies, reading the right books, working on a side-project, etc. The result? No result. Frustration is rising fast, and despair is on the horizon. How could you take a different approach? You could try to be more focused. In a literal sense (choose fewer opportunities to pursue them with more energy), and in a methodical sense (apply the FOCUSED method described in the Discovery Discipline book). Here’s what it would look like. FOCUSED stands for a 7-step process, each step starting with a letter from the word F.O.C.U.S.E.D. It’s primarily used as for digital product discovery, but can be interesting to apply to other situations where you are looking for the best path in an environment of constraints. F = Frame Here, you are clarifying your Success Criteria. « Get a product designer job« . Yes, but no, because that’s too far out. It’s the ultimate outcome you’re obviously aiming for, but it’s not useful to frame your goal this way. Try to be more specific about your situation. Where do you usually get stuck? To get a first interview? To reach the final stage of the process? To be chosen when there’s two candidates left? Pick the stage that seems to be the biggest hurdle for now and ignore the rest. Example of Success Criteria: Move from 20% to 50% the ratio of applications/first interview. O = Observe Here, you are trying to clarify the problem you would like to fix. « My problem is that I’m looking for a product design position and I can’t seem to land one« . Makes sense, right? Actually, no. You just restated your long-term goal, and phrased as a problem. Except that, moving forward, we don’t care about your problem, we care about you… as a solution to a problem. So whose problem are we interested in? (The full approach is described in the article below) https://lnkd.in/e9vmWp2p