If you are having a hard time answering these questions, you can take our 2-min personality quiz to see what UX career path best suits your personality and work style.
And then comes our hardest question of all, which might surprise you. We’ve found that most people have a hard time answering this one because of self-doubt or self-limiting beliefs. The question is:
What’s your dream UX job, or what does your dream UX job look like?
At this point during our call, folks usually pause and say, “I haven’t really thought about that, good question!”
When really this is THE foundational question! This is the question that helps you set your long term vision and goals for yourself! What we are really asking is:
- Where do you want to be?
- Where do you see yourself thriving, even if it takes 1-2 years to get there?
So for today’s UX challenge, we are challenging you to answer this question for yourself! And you can email us or book a 20-min call with us to chat through your answer as well :)
Sometimes, we are afraid to name our dreams in specific terms because we are afraid of rejection– the what if we don’t get there, the what if we don’t achieve what we want to?
The beauty about dreaming is that it can help us set a vision for ourselves, even if it means that we don’t necessarily get exactly there. Instead, we can work towards our dreams and end up getting close to where we want to be. It’s aspirational, and it helps us stay focused.
Once you are able to articulate where you want to be, we can help you get there. This often means tailoring your UX resume and UX portfolio to be very focused on your end destination. We will help you with the journey to get there! This means:
- Booking a 20-min strategy consult call to articulate your dream UX job and talk through what UX career path you want to pursue, as well as the specific work preferences you have.
- Discussing your past work and how we can strategically rebrand it to show off your UX expertise and UX skill sets, as well as other relevant industry expertise and skill sets.
- Planning out a UX project that aligns with your dreams. At Ideate Labs, we will help you turn your project idea into a startup vision and 2 UX case studies, one in UX research and one in UX design.
- Check out our free UX mini course on how to choose a project topic and learn about product scoping, business strategy, and Blue Ocean strategy along the way. We recommend striking a balance between your past work and your future destination!
For example, Valerie was a physical therapist for 10 years before taking the Ideate Labs live UX course and choosing healthcare as her Ideate Labs project topic. She ended up building a healthcare platform that helped PTs assign HW to their patients. Her work impressed CVS corporate, and she landed a UX lead role with the company because she possessed both healthcare, management, and UX expertise!
Aliyah was a mid-level marketing associate who rebranded her work and landed a UX research role with Reddit.
Vlada was a new grad who turned her pandemic passions into a UX project and landed a UX designer role, even going on to travel to Europe for 2 weeks to conduct international UX research as part of her first UX job and first full time job!
Are you ready to chase your UX dreams? Book a 20-minute call with us here and we can brainstorm an UX project with you to work on within our 4-Month Live UX course. We really recommend taking our 4-Month Live UX course starting on September 22 to land your dream UX job. The course helps you really take the time to understand your particular skill sets and interests in relation to a specific UX career path…which is crucial for finding the right UX job for you, based on your personality and interests!
What’s different about our course? We help you land 6-figure UX job offers in 7 months, or coach you till you get it. We provide 1:1 UX mentorship for 7 months, and group-coaching office hours within a supportive alumni community for life.
Register for the 4-month Live UX course by Thursday, September 12 to save $900 on the tuition price (our regular tuition rate of $7,350 becomes $6,450).
Here’s what you get access to for FREE when you register by paying the $490 course registration fee:
Our Redesign Your UX Resume & Portfolio online course ($790 value)
Our “Create a Career in UX Design” E-book ($150 value)
Hurry up on that registration because we have a limited number of seats in our cohort and seats run out fast! Save your seat today by registering today.
As always, rooting for your success!
Samaya & Khrys
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P.P.P.P.S. Are you a UX career changer who’s still learning UX? In today’s competitive job market, it might not be enough to complete the Google Coursera course (although that’s a good starting point!). It can also be overwhelming to sort through hundreds of different UX resources. We recommend registering for Ideate Labs Live UX course to get a personalized UX education that helps you land your dream UX job.
