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- microkorg0
Still on the jobhunt.
This week has felt a bit better as had two interviews and another potentially next week.
Today I had a call with a talent recruiter from a top bank that I'd applied to but not got the position. He was giving me feedback on why I wasn't chosen. CV, folio, skillset etc all on point. Only thing I lacked was native app experience.I'd like my next role to be fintech/crypto related and most require native app experience.
Without getting a job for the next few years working on an app platform to get the experience, do you think like doing the kind of case studies where you fix a problem in a current app you use and having that in my folio would cut it?
I'm kinda thinking they are moreso looking for the real world experience, knowing about restrictions, native UI's etc.
But aren't these skills pretty transferrable?I spent the last 5 years as lead UX product designer with no prior 'product' experience, but 20 years experience in agencies doing web/digital across many sectors/industries to call on so I could hit the ground running.
Good to hear thoughts from native app designers.
- Should I have posted that in the Gen X Career Meltdown thread? ;)microkorg
- If you need "native app experience" go with iOS, much easier to stick to the guidelines.
Android is a mess rn design wise...******** - Do you think doing some homegrown projects and having them in my portfolio would be enough? Or u think they are looking for actual experiencemicrokorg
- working on native apps, with devs etc and to restrictions/guideli...microkorg
- Usually they mean exactly that - real work experience - but having self-promo projects is very good (for direct clients)********
- But getting feedback from talent recruiters is fuck'all
Try to apply directly to companies, not go through middle******** - Problem these days is they are getting back to office or hybrid work, fully remote jobs are scarce again********
- Graf, the guy was in-house talent recruiter, not a third party one.
Need to get me some native app experience.microkorg - You mean HR?
Sorry but unless you deliver fully developed apps you aren't getting those kind of jobs
Which is bs
But hey good luck******** - Cheers mate. I agree. Designers skills are 100% transferrable. And you could learn any systems/software with a heads-down for a few weeks in a job.microkorg
- Sure, we can manage faster than the HR can vet the CVs
For some companies it's like 5-6 rounds of interviews and months of time wasted********