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The UX job market REALLY sucks right now
Why you should pivot and change directions right NOW
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…