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3 ways to impress hiring managers with limited design experience
1. Use stories to highlight your experience
Share specific examples from your bootcamp projects or personal passion projects.
Even without formal industry experience, you can demonstrate your process, problem-solving, and design approach.
Using these stories to answer hiring managers' questions helps keep them engaged and gives them concrete examples to evaluate your skills.
2. Leverage transferable skills from past roles or education
Reflect on previous careers or educational experiences, even if they don’t seem directly related to UX.
Identify skills that overlap with UX, such as:
- Communication and collaboration with teams
- Experience with software tools (design tools, project management tools, etc.)
- Research, problem-solving, and critical thinking
Highlight these transferable skills to show that you have a strong foundation to build on, even without direct UX experience.
3. Align your past experience with the job requirements
Review UX job descriptions to spot common skills and responsibilities.
Compare these requirements with your past experience and highlight areas of overlap.
Even without direct UX experience, show how your previous roles have given you relevant skills (e.g. user empathy, design thinking, or process management).
I wrote an article that dives deeper into how to land a job with zero experience:
