The UX Careers Handbook

The UX Careers Handbook offers an insider’s look at how to be a successful User Experience (UX) professional from comprehensive career pathways to learning, personal branding, networking skills, building of resumes and portfolios, and actually landing a UX job.

This book goes in-depth to explain what it takes to get into and succeed in a UX career, be it as a designer, information architect, strategist, user researcher, or in a variety of other UX career specialities. It presents a wealth of resources designed to help readers develop and take control of their UX career success including perspectives and advice from experts in the field.

• Features insights and personal stories from a range of industry-leading UX professionals to show readers how they broke into the industry, and evolved their own careers over time.
• Accompanied by a companion website that provides readers with featured articles and updated resources covering new and changing information to help them stay on top of this fast-paced industry.
• Provides worksheets and activities to help readers make decisions for their careers and build their own careers.
  

Not only for job seekers! The UX Careers Handbook is also a must-have resource for:

• Employers and recruiters who want to better understand how to hire and retain UX staff.
• Undergraduate and graduate students who are thinking about their future careers
• Those in other related (or even unrelated) professions who are thinking of starting to do UX work

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Cory Lebson has been a UX consultant for over two decades. He is the Principal and Owner of a small UX consultancy, a builder of UX community, and a past president of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). Not only a practitioner of UX, Cory teaches and mentors to help?professionals grow their UX skills, and conducts regular talks and workshops on topics related to both UX skills and career development.