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.
Valentina
Valentina is the founder of UX Tree and a Design Manager at Vhi, with over 10 years of experience in UX. She completed her master's degree in UX at IADT in 2020. Valentina is deeply passionate about mentoring, helping junior designers grow, and is especially keen on strategy and UI design.