UX Job Search: What Works Best in 2026

Hosted by Jared Spool

Tue, Jun 30, 2026

3:00 PM UTC (1 hour 30 minutes)

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UX Job Search: Stand Out in Today's Crazy, Crowded Job Market
Jared Spool
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What you'll learn

Adapt to the bizarre demands of the 2026 UX job market

Today’s UX job market demands novel search strategies and approaches, optimized for current chaotic conditions.

Make your materials stand out in today’s challenging market

Deliver what hiring managers need when you master essential techniques to tailor your portfolio, résumé, and narrative.

Persuade hiring managers you’re the ideal candidate

Discover what today’s hiring managers are looking for and why some candidates advance while others are overlooked.

Prevent the job-hunt grind from totally demoralizing you

Shorten your job search time and increase visibility with recruiters and hiring managers.

Why this topic matters

The UX job market broke in 2022 and remains broken today, four years later. There are far more people looking for UX work than there are open roles. In a market this crowded, the strategies that worked even a few years ago no longer get traction. Your portfolio, résumé, and narrative need to speak directly to the work the hiring manager needs done and make it clear how you’ll improve their world.

You'll learn from

Jared Spool

Center Centre’s Maker of Awesomeness and UX career coach.

Everything in this workshop comes straight from Jared Spool’s decades of coaching hundreds of UX professionals on their careers.


Through his work with design leaders around the world, Jared has learned how hiring managers look for new team members as they build up their staffing.


Crafting your résumé, portfolio, and case studies into compelling documents that attract the attention of hiring managers and recruiters is a design challenge. Jared will walk you through what he’s uncovered about how your materials are currently received and what would make them more effective.


Jared is world-renowned for turning complex ideas into practical guidance using clear explanations, concrete examples, memorable stories, and the occasional charmingly imperfect sketch.


If you want to learn how leading UX professionals have built successful careers by attaining fun, challenging (in a good way) opportunities to make a difference, you’ll learn it here from someone who has spent a career figuring out what truly works.

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