Job searching has always been harder than it looks, and if you've been searching for a while without much traction, there's a good chance your strategy is working against you. Guest host Laura Klein sits down with Sarah Doody, founder of the Career Strategy Lab, to talk about what UX practitioners get wrong when searching for work.

They cover:

• Why the DIY approach tanks your confidence over time
• How to treat yourself as a candidate-product — complete with features, benefits, and a roadmap
• The role of community in the job search
• what your LinkedIn is actually signaling to recruiters
• Why some of the best UX opportunities are hiding in industries you've never considered.

About Sarah Doody | Bio | LinkedIn

• Career Strategy Lab (Website)
• Career Strategy Lab Podcast
• Follow Sarah on Instagram

Related NN/G Articles & Episodes:

• EP 59 | Getting Hired in UX: What to Do When Apply-and-Wait Isn't Enough (with Evan Sunwall)
• EP 53 | Why You’re Not Getting Job Interviews (with Hang Xu)
• Ep 19 | Designing a UX Career (with Sarah Doody)
• UX Layoff Crisis: A Guide for Resilience and Recovery
• Templates and Tools for UX Job Seekers
• Growing in Your UX Career: Study Guide

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OKRs are a popular choice to communicate team goals… but most teams do them wrong. In this episode, Laura Klein talks with Christina Wodtke, author of Radical Focus, about what actually makes objectives and key results work: the weekly and quarterly rituals that keep goals alive, why psychological safety matters more than making perfect predictions, and how strategy and vision have to exist before you can even set an OKR in the first place.

About Christina Wodtke: LinkedIn | Eleganthack (blog) | Books by Christina Wodtke

Other Related NN/g Articles & Courses:

• Aligning UX Metrics with Organizational Goals: A Workshop Guide
• Crossfunctional Collaboration: Challenges and Strategies for Success
• Project Postmortems for UX Teams: Learning from Success and Failure
• Lean UX & Agile: Study Guide
• Psychology for UX: Study Guide
• Course: Lean UX and Agile
• Course: Leading Highly Effective UX Teams

Most UX practitioners have spent their careers fighting for the user — pushing back against dark patterns, advocating for quality, and insisting that making things better for people is also better for the business. Eric Ries would say that instinct is exactly right. And that it's not enough.

In this episode, host Laura Klein talks with Eric Ries — New York Times Best Selling Author of The Lean Startup and founder of the Long Term Stock Exchange — about his new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad...and How Great Companies Stay Great. Eric makes the case that most of today's business best practices are actively value-destroying, and that the builders, designers, and makers who already believe product quality matters are more revolutionary than they realize — they just lack the tools to protect that belief inside their organizations.

They dig into the history of shareholder primacy, why corporate governance is something every practitioner should understand, and the very specific questions you can ask in a job interview to find out whether a company is genuinely mission-driven or just mission-hopeful.

About Eric Ries | Linkedin

• The Eric Ries Show
• Incorruptible (New Book) - Available Now!
• The Lean Start Up (Book)

Related NN/G Articles & Videos

• UX Stakeholder Engagement 101
• Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them
• Four Factors in UX Maturity
• UX Maturity Is a Living System, Not a Ladder
• UXers Need to Think Like Product Leaders

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→ Becoming a UX Strategist (Live Online)→ Successful Stakeholder Relationships (Live Online)→ Lean UX and Agile (Live Online)→ Demonstrating UX Value (Self-Paced)→ UX Maturity: Elevating Organizational UX Practices (Self-Paced)

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