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Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody | UX, Product Design, UX Research

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Sarah Doody from Career Strategy Lab

Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast, with Sarah Doody, a UX Researcher & Product Designer with 20 years of experience who is helping UX and Product people design their careers. You’ll learn how to advance your UX or Product career including how get hired in UX, stay hired, get promoted, and build a personal brand and visibility. You’ll also hear no BS tips to optimize your UX resume and portfolio, navigate your UX job search, and prepare for UX job interviews so you can stop being invisible and be seen as an in-demand UX professional. Get ready to UX your career, ironic, right?!

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#143

135: How a 30-Year UX veteran is navigating a UX layoff without burnout

#142

134: A career break has NOT ruined your career, here's why...

#141

133: How terminal uniqueness keeps you stuck in your job search

#140

132: How Career Strategy Lab's AI Tools Help Mid & Senior UXers Get Hired Faster

#139

131: Why I don't teach every UX topic (and why my focus is *your* superpower)

#138

130: From UX Portfolio Rewrites to Hired as a Principal Product Designer: How Steve Owned His Career...

#137

129: Get Hired in UX Faster With Peloton Inspired UX Career Coaching

#136

128: How this 30 year UX veteran went from feeling irrelevant to in control of her career

#135

127: The $100K Shift: Why Working 'ON' Your Career (vs 'IN' it) Changes Everything

#134

126: From UX Layoff to Leadership: How Duncan got hired as a Global Head of UX after a restructure

#133

125: Career Strategy Lab Coaches Unfiltered: What you don’t see on sales pages or social media

#132

124: Why Sarah Doody's UX portfolio framework still works after 20 years

#131

123: How a 25-Year UX veteran rewrote his career story & reclaimed his confidence

#130

122: How Marcus Got Hired as a UX Researcher After Six Months of Rejection

#129

121: Your UX Job Search Has Cost You 5-Figures. What To Do About It

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120: How a Sr UX Researcher got hired at Amazon after a layoff & 2 year job search

#127

119: Why you should research the interviewers before a job interview

#126

118: 3 things your UX job search has in common with soap operas

#125

117: Applied to 100s of UX jobs? Consider this your intervention

#124

116: How to optimize your resume for the ATS so you can get more UX job interviews

#123

115: How this UX Designer escaped UX portfolio burnout and rebuilt his entire UX job search strategy

#122

114: From Laid Off to Senior UX Designer: How Sarah Landed Her Dream Role

#121

113: How a Senior Product Designer got promoted with a 37% increase in total compensation

131: Why I don't teach every UX topic (and why my focus is your superpower)