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UX branding and your job search

UX branding and your job search

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UX branding and your job search

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- Resumes and portfolios are extremely important, but they're not the only way that you can brand yourself as a UX professional to future employers. You also need to use your UX skills to brand yourself on social media, and more generally on the web. Let's first consider LinkedIn at the most basic level, It's important that you not only create a LinkedIn profile that explains who you are as a UX professional, but you also need to evaluate your profile in light of your intended audience groups. Have you used the key words that represent the UX skills that future employers may be searching for? Have you explained your prior work history succinctly in a way that is easily skimmed and can tell your UX story? Are you connected with other UX professionals? Please don't only connect with those that you're very close to. Expand your network, with a goal that any employer that is interested in you will be no more…

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