What is Wrong with Hiring

Laura Klein and Amy Santee
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What is Wrong with Hiring Podcast

The podcast where we try to understand why hiring and getting hired in tech are both absolute nightmares. Hosted Amy Santee and Laura Klein.

  1. JUL 23

    From Charmander to Charizard: Level Up Your UX Research Job Search with Nikki Anderson

    Amy chats with writer, podcaster, speaker, Pokémon enthusiast, research champion, and founder of User Research Academy, Nikki Anderson. Nikki provides sage advice for taking your job interviews, resume, and portfolio up a few notches, and shares the most common mistakes she's made as a candidate and what she's seen as a hiring manager. She also imparts a supportive message to job seekers, and realistic perspective on the current and future state of UX during a very challenging time for everyone in the community. The chaos and uncertainty of mass layoffs and AI have led many to ask, is UX dead? Nikki believes that UX will persist and encourages us to use this moment as an opportunity for a conversation about reimagining and rebuilding in a better way.  Links Episode transcript Join Nikki's User Research Academy Subscribe to Nikki's Substack A UXR Resume Journey (Nikki's comprehensive guide) Nikki's guide to case studies Please support our work with a rating and review and telling your friends. Or, you can throw us a few gold doubloons! Got a request for a topic or guest speaker? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn.

    48 min

  2. JUL 14

    Interviewing When You're an "Only" With Roberta Dombrowski

    Amy chats with coach Roberta Dombrowski about the experience of interviewing for tech jobs as “an only”. If you’ve ever been an “only” (woman, person of color, neurodivergent, queer, etc.) or first of your kind on a team, this one’s for you. Hiring managers, recruiters, and anyone else who cares about other people, can also learn a thing or two about creating an inclusive hiring process to set “onlys” up for success. Roberta is the founder of Learn Mindfully where she helps onlys reestablish their relationship to work, themselves, and the people they work with, through an integration of head, heart, and body.  With more than a decade of experience designing employee and customer experiences and working with leaders at companies like Adobe, Instacart, Shopify, ServiceNow, and LinkedIn, she is dedicated to leveling the playing field at work and believes that leaders at all levels can spark change. Links Episode transcript Navigating Job Search Bias 70+ questions to make sure your next role meets your needs More resources from Roberta Please support our work with a rating and review or a throw us a few gold doubloons! Got a request for a topic or guest speaker? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn.

    33 min

  3. JUN 17

    Mitch Clements on Scaling Design Teams & Hiring Senior Talent

    Senior Product Design Manager and respected UX community contributor Mitch Clements shares how he created an attentive, fair, and effective hiring process to scale his 26-person (and counting!) design team at Encino. UX hiring managers and job seekers will appreciate Mitch's reflections on: Lessons learned on screening and interviewing candidates in a crowded market, from entry level to advanced practitioners The necessity of implementing a career architecture framework and standardized assessment rubrics to streamline the process and set expectations The importance of empathy, communication, transparency in creating a high quality hiring experience What Mitch looks for when hiring senior designers/IC’s and design managers Why portfolios should NOT be a requirement for applications! How posting on LinkedIn can help hiring managers attract design candidates Optimistic predictions for a resurgence of UX hiring… sometime down the road Links Episode transcript Mitch's website and coaching services Mitch's LinkedIn Please support our work with a rating and review or a throw us a few gold doubloons! Got a request for a topic or guest speaker? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn.

    50 min

  4. MAY 28

    Finding a Job Search Happy Path with Sally Carson

    Leadership coach, design executive, and founder of Happy Path Sally Carson. Sally shares her hiring insights and job search advice based on 20+ years in tech, including her time as a hiring manager and leader of design teams at LinkedIn and Cisco. We talk about: Using a "jobs to be done" framework to craft your resume, portfolio, and other materials according to the needs and goals of your audience Insights into how recruiters use LinkedIn search and filters to find qualified candidates (Sally's team worked on variety of features for finding talent) Tips for optimizing your LinkedIn profile that go beyond the basics (like adding skills tags to your jobs so you come up in search) One Weird (Smart) Trick for figuring out how to talk about the business impact of your work How managing up *might* help you avoid a layoff Why design and tech professionals need to learn AI now Something about bras for dogs? Links Episode transcript Sally's website Keep your job in 2024 by managing up Adding business results to LinkedIn profile Importance of adding skills to LinkedIn profile The AI Dilemma - from the Center for Humane Technology (vimeo) Free LinkedIn Learning AI course Please support our work with a rating and review or a throw us a few gold dubloons! Got a request for a topic or guest speaker? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn.

    42 min

  5. APR 25

    Job Market Insights from Dave Miller, a Truly Human-Centered Recruiter

    Amy chats with Dave Miller, an 18-year talent management veteran and founder of Design Citizen, a human-centered recruiting and career advisory firm for product and creative professionals in tech.  Tune in for lots of gems as Dave shares his insights on past, present, and future tech industry and job market trends (good news: things are looking a bit better!), with a healthy mix of reality check and optimism about the impact of AI on tech professionals.  Dave actually walks the talk in his work with candidates, emphasizing fair pay and respectful hiring processes. If you're looking for (or hiring for!) positions in product, design, research, marketing, and related roles, get with Dave stat!  Links Episode transcript Please support our work with a rating and review or a throw us a few shillings! This shit costs money after all. Got a request for a topic or guest speaker? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn.

    54 min

  6. APR 3

    How to Manage in the Messy UX Job Market with Jeremy Miller

    In this special episode swap, Amy joins Jeremy Miller, host of Beyond UX Design, for an in-depth conversation about the state of the UX job market. We touch on some familiar topics around the mass tech layoffs, but the primary focus of our discussion looks at how job seekers can manage their response to layoffs and navigate the job search during a chaotic time. Plus a fun April Fool's Day Joke...  Links Check out Jeremy's Podcast, Beyond UX Design Grab his book, Beyond UX Design: Master Your Craft Beyond Pixels and Prototypes, for 10% off Watch the recording of our live Q&A on the state of the UX job market Episode transcript Support our work: Please rate our show, spread the word, or hit us up with a lil contribution! This shit costs money after all. Got a hiring topic request? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn and we can cover it in a future episode.

    1h 10m

  7. MAR 4

    You Asked, We Answered - Listener Grab Bag #3

    Today we answer some great questions from our fabulous listeners! Hope it helps! Is it worth applying to jobs on LinkedIn and Indeed? We're supposed to network to find a job, but what do you do when no one you know has an open role?  When hundreds or thousands of people apply to a job in just a few days, should you even bother? Why does it seem like companies are hiring more UX contractors these days? What does it mean for the future of the field? What are some UX research-adjacent careers that pay the same? With more companies wanting hybrid designer-researchers, what does this mean for the evolution of our skill sets? Why are companies passing up on qualified, extending the process in search for the “perfect candidate" (who may not actually exist)? Why do I keep seeing the exact same jobs getting reposted every few months for nearly 2 years now? This episode is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Learn more about their Executive Program in Design Leadership here. Episode transcript Support our work by leaving a rating and review, or throw us a few bucks for coffee and beer! Got a hiring topic request? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn and we can cover it in a future episode.

    34 min

  8. FEB 20

    Playing the Game: Mitigating Bias in Hiring with David Dylan Thomas

    What can job seekers, hiring managers, and companies do to mitigate bias in hiring? In this conversation with writer, speaker, consultant, and all around awesome guy David Dylan Thomas, we discuss the individual and collective actions we can take to alleviate the burden on candidates who just want to get a damn job. Buckle your seatbelts for an adventurous exploration of cognitive biases in hiring, how to address common concerns like resume gaps and layoffs, the ugly origins of employer-employee power dynamics and exploitation, risk taking and self-censorship, the dangers of AI (because of course), and the role of *gasp* tech worker unions in creating a more equitable hiring processes.  Plus a sneak peek into Dave's zombie-social commentary film project, White Meat! Episode transcript Links David Dylan Thomas This episode is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Learn more about their Executive Program in Design Leadership here. Support our work by leaving a rating and review, or throw us a few bucks for coffee and beer! Got a hiring topic request? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn and we can cover it in a future episode.

    50 min
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The podcast where we try to understand why hiring and getting hired in tech are both absolute nightmares. Hosted Amy Santee and Laura Klein.

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  • Creator
    Laura Klein and Amy Santee
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2022-2023 All rights reserved.
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