This episode is a full walkthrough of how you'll get hired in UX faster with Career Strategy Lab and exactly what happens after you join. Sarah shares what genuinely helps UX people in their job search, after coaching UX and Product people since 2017 and running Career Strategy Lab since 2021.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✔️ The six things that help UX and product people get hired faster
✔️ What your first 30 days inside CSL look like
✔️ Why positioning comes before your LinkedIn and resume
✔️ How the portfolio, case study, and critique process works
✔️ How monthly recruiter Q&As and the 850-alumni referral network help you get hired
Topics Discussed:
✅ The 6 things Sarah has found consistently help UX people get hired faster
✅ How the first 30 days inside Career Strategy Lab are structured and why every step is intentionally sequenced to build on the last
✅ What a Compass Statement is and why it comes before everything else in your UX job search prep
✅ How getting clear on your positioning makes fixing your resume and LinkedIn significantly faster
✅ How the weekly critique system works and why submitting imperfect work early beats waiting until everything feels ready
✅ The monthly recruiter and hiring manager Q&A sessions: who shows up, what you get to ask, and why this is one of the most underrated parts of the program
✅ How Career Strategy Lab's 850-person alumni network functions as a UX-specific job referral network and how members are actively using it to get hired
✅ The open to work area, interview debriefs, and hired recaps and why watching other people get hired in real time is some of the most useful intel you can get in a job search
💸 See how you can get hired in UX with the help of my UX job search coaching program