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The UX job market REALLY sucks right now

Why you should pivot and change directions right NOW

Melody Koh 🤔
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I had to change the title of this article a little bit because another medium writer beat me to it, but the sentiment remains so let’s get to it.

I do a something I call a “twenty application test” every quarter where I will send out my resume to 20 companies who are hiring designers to see if I can make the cut.

I’m not the kind of person who will send 100 resumes and accept 100 rejections; as someone who was a hiring manager and also a seasoned job-search artist, the sweet spot for me is 20 applications with a resume format change every 5–7 applications.

And the results this quarter are the most shocking for me, because the amount of interviews I got was a big fat zero. A 100% rejection rate from the first screening.

This has never happened before, not even during my junior years, not even a quarter or two ago in recent history.

So I repeated the test with a junior mentee’s resume, and got another big fat zero. What does this all mean?

We’ve all been expecting this, and I’m smiling as I write this because I’ve again managed to successfully predict the market’s doom but here it is:

The UX bubble has finally

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