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Tag: hiring

How Not To Apply for a Design Job

Post author By jfx1026
Post date June 17, 2019

As a design manager, I’ve looked at several hundred applications for open design roles over the last few months and I’ve noticed a series of painful missteps from the applicant pool.

Tags design, graphic design, hiring, job hunting, web design, work

Design Work

The Formation of A Design Team

Post author By jfx1026
Post date October 21, 2016

or, How a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Came Together to Make Pretty Things with Computers During the first 30 days, I lost almost half my team. As the brand new manager, how am I supposed to recover from this? Did my presence, or the change I represented, cause this? What is going on. Eight months […]

Tags design, designOps, hiring, management, team building, ux, work