This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Evan Sunwall
Summary: Generate more UX-job opportunities with a resume that effectively communicates to UX hiring managers how you are making a career change into UX.
One of the nice things about our UX conferences is hearing stories from attendees of how they discovered UX and left their current professions to pursue a fulfilling UX career . That's a good thing because the world needs more UX professionals and, therefore, more UX career changers like them.
But career changes are stressful. Research by Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe suggests that a career change is about as stressful as a close friend's death! An antidote for this stress is setting goals and dates for yourself and taking incremental steps to progress your career-changing journey. One such step is updating your resume to convey your past through the lens of your future UX career.
What Is a Resume?
A resume is a concise document that communicates your educational and work experiences to a hiring manager. Its purpose is to advance your application to the next step in the hiring process for as many relevant job opportunities as possible. As annoying as resumes can be to write and maintain, they have stubbornly persisted as a necessary professional document since the times of Leonardo Da Vinci. For all the flaws of resumes (and they have many), you will need to submit a UX-oriented resume if you are applying for UX jobs.
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This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Evan Sunwall
Evan Sunwall | Sciencx (2022-08-07T16:00:00+00:00) Effective Resumes for UX Career Changers. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/08/07/effective-resumes-for-ux-career-changers/
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