Explore strategies to communicate well, tell a compelling story, and ace your next design interview. This guide is comprised of everything designers today need to master the interviewing process and demonstrate the skills employers are looking for from design.
No matter who you are, what industry you are in, where you are in the world, how you learn best, or where you are in your career journey, this guide has something for you.
What's covered in A Designer's Guide to Interviewing?
- Understanding recruiting and getting the most from this guide
- Defining your career goals (and why you need to)
- Finding job opportunities
- Building a rйsumй
- Creating a digital portfolio
- Applying to jobs
- Preparing for early conversations with recruiters
- Navigating critique interviews
- Managing at-home exercises
- How to talk with interviewers
- Mastering interview exercises (such as problem solving exercises and whiteboarding challenges)
- Questions to ask interviewers
- How to talk about collaboration
- Practicing interviewing
- Presenting a portfolio of work
- Setting expectations (for yourself and interviewers)
- Understanding rejection
- Negotiating job offers
All of this and more presented in five succinct sections broken into job search categories:
1. Fundamentals
2. Your job search
3. Early stage interviews
4. Late stage interviews
5. Decision making