Cohort 2

Build a personal LinkedIn content strategy that helps you stand out, make meaningful connections, and land your next job as a UX Designer.


Grace Ling

UX Designer at a large tech company, Founder of Design Buddies, & Content Creator

Content Creation for UX Designers - Standing Out in a Competitive Job Market

Enroll in this course to develop your personal brand, craft compelling content on LinkedIn, expand your professional network, and cultivate meaningful relationships with others. Grace and a network of peers will help provide you with feedback to help you advance in your design career. Grace successfully transitioned her career to UX design without a design degree or certification. Despite facing countless rejections from job applications, she discovered that content creation on LinkedIn was the most effective way to expand her network and secure employment. By leveraging LinkedIn for content creation, Grace built a strong personal brand that opened doors to promotions, job opportunities, public speaking engagements, consulting projects, brand collaborations, and a total following of over 50,000.

Create content to help you stand out in a competitive job market

UX designers looking to expand their network

UX designers looking to start creating content on LinkedIn

UX designers with an existing portfolio with 1-2 strong projects

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

<ul><li>LinkedIn profile templates</li><li>LinkedIn profile feedback</li><li>An improved LinkedIn profile that showcases your design skills to help you stand out on your job search</li></ul>

A strong LinkedIn presence

<ul><li>LinkedIn post templates to help you get over writer's block</li><li>Reach your target audience and highlight your UX design expertise</li><li>Case studies and breakdowns of viral posts</li><li>Leverage your design skills to advance your content creation - carousels, graphics, &amp; videos</li></ul>

A content strategy for you to consistently post content on LinkedIn

<ul><li>Distinguish how you can personally improve your LinkedIn, personal brand, and content</li><li>Message Grace any time during the course to ask questions and receive feedback</li></ul>

Personalized feedback from Grace

<ul><li>Receive feedback from Grace during office hours and direct messaging</li><li>Gain feedback from peers during breakout rooms and built-in community tools</li><li>Make lifelong connections to support each other's content creation and career goals</li></ul>

Meet other designers and gain a network of peers to help you improve in content creation

<ul><li>Improve your LinkedIn profile through templates to showcase your UX design skills, experiences, and achievements</li><li>Develop your own personal brand and understand the fundamentals of personal branding</li><li>Get feedback on your LinkedIn and personal brand strategy from Grace and classmates</li><li>Get access to a small group design community</li></ul>

Leveraging LinkedIn and Creating Your Personal Branding

<ul><li>Analyze viral LinkedIn posts to apply learnings to your own</li><li>Receive LinkedIn post prompts and templates</li><li>Create LinkedIn posts and get feedback from Grace and peers</li></ul>

Designing Your LinkedIn Content Strategy

<ul><li>Craft an elevator pitch that you can use when meeting new people online and in-person</li><li>Strategically search for relevant people to connect with</li><li>Write meaningful comments on other people's posts </li><li>Receive LinkedIn messaging templates for reaching out to people and following up to keep the connection warm</li></ul>

Cultivating Meaningful Relationships on LinkedIn

Course syllabus

Education Experience Coordinator, Brainstation

Sr. Product Designer @ Zesty.io | Founder of UX Library, the Protothon, & Humans of Tech | Design Mentor & Educator

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Meet your instructor

Participate in interactive live presentations with Grace. Learn actionable LinkedIn tips you can apply right away. Ask Grace anything about the presentation. Present your work to Grace and classmates to receive live feedback

Mondays - Presentation, Q&A, and feedback

Ask Grace anything and present your work to receive live feedback

Fridays - Live 1:1 feedback

Work through deliverables to help you craft a LinkedIn profile and content that stands out. Learn how to gather data to help you iterate.

Weekly projects

Receive templates of LinkedIn profiles, LinkedIn content, and networking outreach messages as starting points for your assignments

Templates and resources

Engage with a network of peers to help each other share knowledge, provide feedback, collaborate, and grow

Course community

Message Grace any time during the course to receive asynchronous feedback

A-sync feedback

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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