Google ux design certificate is not job guaranteed and here's how I landed a UI ux design job
at eBay from the certificate on June 17th I completed this certificate and I had three
projects to showcase I built a ux design portfolio with the three projects I built a resume I
applied on LinkedIn to some companies that I liked I got rejected or ghosted by all the
companies that I liked I then started to apply into whatever companies that are out there
looking for ux designers I got ghosted or rejected by all 300 companies that I applied
to I then started to leverage referrals which means asking my friends who worked in big
tech companies to refer me finally I got an interview opportunity from Slack one minute
before my interview the recruiter called me and told me that the job is gone no luck and
then I got an interview opportunity at wework after the interview I got rejected immediately
because I just didn't have real life project to showcase and then I got an interview at
Google which I was so happy about I passed the first round of interview and I felt great
and then during the second round of interview I was interviewed by five people five times
and then I was rejected one week later I was not told why at that time I thought to myself
maybe I suck at what I do maybe I will never get a ux design job so during this entire
unemployment phase of my life there was pretty much only one thing that cheered up which
is this channel I recorded that video you saw before which is the course review video
of this certificate and that video blew up and I was very happy about it one day I received
an email from someone I don't know asking about whether I'm available for a short-term
contractor ux design project and I immediately said yes because at that time I understood
that not having any real life project to showcase in my portfolio is really dragging me down
just like that I got my first ux design contractor role and helped a mortgage application company
in the US to redesign their website I work with this startup for around four months and
within this four month I had a real life experience I worked with engineering team and I understood
what is it really like to be designing for actual product to be designing within design
constraints I also built a design system from zero to one and when I was around 80 finished
I started to populate in whatever I had for this project to my portfolio and replaced
my personal project from before I also redesigned my resume to included more numbers highlighted
my impact act and also included as many keywords as possible and then I started to reapply
but this time using a very different strategy I used indeed instead of LinkedIn and this
time I set a boundary to myself to only allow myself to spend 30 minutes per day on sending
application and I focused on quantity not quality I mass apply it using one resume and
I sent around 15 applications per day so that's two minutes per application I didn't really
read any of the description of those jobs I just applied to whatever is out there one
week in this application process I started to get recruiter calls these recruiters not
only have that one specific job but they also have more jobs especially contractor roles
on their hand and I also got connected with two staffing agencies that represent companies
like eBay to recruit ux design contractors these contractor roles might not always be
available on the official company website I got around three interviews two interviews
from design agencies and one interview from eBay which one Staffing Agent helped me to
find on February 17th 17 days of applying just for 30 minutes per day I got my first
interview at eBay and it went really good the first one of the interview was just with
my manager 14 minutes in I felt like I probably will get this and I was told that I passed
this round and we scheduled the second round of interview with more people and this interview
is with the entire team it also went pretty well and literally on that day right after
the interview I got the offer
I'm still working with eBay and this job means everything to me I am a thousand percent grateful
for having this job I know that many of you are working really hard to get into this highly
competitive industry so I have some suggestions for you if you are still looking for a job
let's start from the more hardcore ones first real life project matters real life project
means you're designing for a product that will get built you're collaborating with actual
people with engineers and PMs and you're working with actual design constraints it will be
very difficult for you to find real life projects directly through application so if you don't
have real life project I suggest you to First find real life products through networking
and if you want to say that you don't have any friend or you don't know how to network
then you shall read this book it's called Never Eat Alone Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
this is the book that taught me how to network next your portfolio and your resume are the
only two assets that really matter to get you into the door of this field your portfolio
needs to be held on a website preferably yourname.com and your portfolio needs to be visually professional
which means please polish up all your screens make beautiful banners and make sure there's
High Fidelity prototype your product should looks like a real product align all the components
in your screen make it well polished don't ever squeeze a circle avoid having more than
one primary button on the screen of whether using shiny bright colorful background for
the screen it needs to look like a real product then polish up your resume use different action
verbs to start each point use numbers highlight impact use keywords and always ask for feedback
for your resume and your portfolio and if you don't know where to find feedback go to
ADP list they have free mentoring program you should also compare your resume and your
portfolio with other people's resume and portfolio on LinkedIn and see whether you are standing
out in this competition or not do some research on what platform you should use to apply don't
just use LinkedIn or company's official websites and also leverage your strengths to start
networking these are the things that you can control now I want to let you know that there
are also many many things that we cannot control many many times you are not rejected by a
job because you are not good enough for it it's just because bad timing or bad luck that's
not your problem you need to find a team in a company that's very desperate to find a
ux designer ASAP you need to find a team that click with your personality and the only way
to do that is to keep trying and to those of you who quit your old job to start this
ux design Journey or to those of you who are currently unemployed I have more words to
say I went through what you are going through right now and it sucked what will suck more
is having a goal-oriented mindset having a goal-oriented mindset means you're only thinking
about getting that job it's a binary thing yes or no everyone has the same goal if you're
watching my video you want to get a ux design job but it's unlikely you will get it today
or tomorrow so please adapt to a growth oriented mindset in the failing phase of my job search
journey I was mostly thinking about when can I get a job I just need a job during the second
job search phase I started to think about have I finished applying to 20 companies today
if I've done that I'm happy have I learned something new today if I done that then I'm
happy that's more like a growth oriented mindset and that got me to a job way faster than a
goal-oriented mindset I also suggest you to set boundary regarding how much time you want
to spend per day applying to Rose I suggest you to spend maximum one hour per day applying
to stuff and spend the rest of your day living your life learning about design or doing what
you always wanted to do but never started in this way you can turn your unemployment
period into a personal growth period now that I'm working full time almost one year in my
job looking back I could see that everything was making sense even I felt like nothing
was was making first back then my wire of unemployment pushed me to learn as much as
possible pushed me to start this YouTube channel and push me to become more resilient and made
me understood that I shall only focus on the things that I can control and never takes
things that I cannot control personally that includes rejection letters so I wish you all
the best on this journey I'm a firm believer that if you can improve your ux design skill
a little bit every day then you will eventually get to where you deserve to be if you like
this video you probably also will like this video coming next so I will see you in this
video my name is Aliana Thai I'm a self-taught UI ux product designer content creator lifelong
learner and see you in this video