112: How Emily tripled her UX freelance rate from $35 to $125 / hour (and got a full time job too)

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177: Getting ghosted in your UX job search? You're not invisible — you're unpositioned

Are you getting ghosted in your UX job search despite knowing you're qualified? When you have 5, 10, 15 years of experience and you're applying to 20+ jobs a week without hearing back or you're not making it past the first round, it's natural to start thinking you're the problem. ...  Show more

176: Stuck at the Final Round of UX Interviews? Andrew Re-Did His UX Portfolio and Got 3 Offers (Including Blue Origin)

What do you do when you have years of experience, you're making it through rounds of interviews, but you still aren't getting offers? For Andrew, the answer was scrapping his entire UX portfolio and starting over.Andrew had been applying to jobs for a year. He was making it to th ...  Show more

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