Webinar: How to rock your next UX job interview

Wednesday, March 16 at 6 PM

In this webinar, we hosted Philip Dwyer; a Design Ops Lead with more than 14 years of experience at AIB. He walked us through all the essential items when preparing for the UX job interview:

• design jobs/roles – what to look for and what to stay away from
• what hiring managers like to see in everyone’s CV
  • your most recent experience working back
  • highlight your experience related to the job
  • outline your skills
  • mirror the language of the job ad where possible
  • highlight awards and education
  • show that you are a person recruiter wants to see in the Team
• what to show in your portfolio and what to avoid,
  • minimum of two case studies
  • tell your story using both images and text
  • think S.T.A.R. (Situation, Task, Action, Result)
  • have UI and UX examples
• preparing for the job interview:
  • Standard or Competency interview
  • have examples written or prepared (S.T.A.R. format)
  • relax, interviewers want to get the best from you
• most common questions you’ll be asked in the interview:
  • define ‘design’
  • what is your favourite project and why
  • what is your favourite app and why
  • who do you follow or read
• design test from his perspective
  • why is asked in some interviews
  • there is no wrong answer
• your questions and examples
  • why do you like working here
  • what is the day-to-day like

The session took approx 20 mins, followed by 30 mins of QA.

You can check live recording below.