UX Job Search: What Hiring Managers Are Looking For
Hosted by Jared Spool
Thu, May 14, 2026
6:00 PM UTC (1 hour 30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course

Thu, May 14, 2026
6:00 PM UTC (1 hour 30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course

What you'll learn
What hiring managers see in your résumé and portfolio
How you’ll get hiring managers to put you in the ‘yes’ pile
What will make your portfolio most effective
How to best tailor your materials for each job application
Why this topic matters
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.
World-renowned UX Leader
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