{"id":703,"date":"2012-02-02T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:38:07","slug":"qa-how-can-i-find-user-experience-jobs-in-the-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/qa-how-can-i-find-user-experience-jobs-in-the-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: how can I find user experience jobs in the Bay Area?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m spending today at the University of Michigan, participating in some campus recruiting. \u00a0The morning started off with a networking breakfast with the School of Information, which was great: lots of people who are interested in UX jobs at VMware<\/a>. \u00a0We’re hiring for both summer internships<\/a> and full-time positions<\/a>, so this kind of thing is exactly what we need to do to get great hires.<\/p>\n

During my talk, I took a lot of questions from the students about working at VMware, what UX is like here, and so on. \u00a0Which is great: it gives me fodder for future blog posts. \u00a0I’m going to quickly answer one of the questions that I got during that session: how to find UX jobs in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

Working in UX in the Bay Area is truly awesome. \u00a0There’s so many tech companies, and lots of them are hiring. \u00a0Finding UX jobs can be somewhat of a challenge within tech, because UX jobs can get lost in the general tech hiring that happens. \u00a0One great resource for finding UX jobs is BayCHI<\/a>. \u00a0Paid members have access to their Job Bank<\/a>. \u00a0Lots of employers post their UX openings there. \u00a0It’s mostly Bay Area, although there are jobs posted elsewhere in California and the US there too. \u00a0Many of the jobs are for interaction designers, but researchers and visual designers aren’t left out in the cold.<\/p>\n

It’s awesome to see one list of UX opportunities in one place. \u00a0It gives you an idea of where the job market is going and what skills are in demand. \u00a0For me, although I’m not looking for a job, I still glance over them to make sure that I’m growing my skills in the right ways. \u00a0I don’t want my career to stall. \u00a0I want to keep improving and moving my career in the right direction.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the Bay Area, going to the BayCHI meetings is a great way to network with your fellow UX professionals. \u00a0They’re held directly across the street from VMware campus, so it’s pretty easy for me to pop over. \u00a0I watch to see what the monthly topic<\/a> is, and go to the ones that I find interesting. \u00a0Most BayCHI talks are excellent, and the networking is icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

UX folks: what other resources do you point college students towards if they’re looking for a job? \u00a0Other than your own company’s career page, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m spending today at the University of Michigan, participating in some campus recruiting. \u00a0The morning started off with a networking breakfast with the School of Information, which was great: lots of people who are interested in UX jobs at VMware. \u00a0We’re hiring for both summer internships and full-time positions, so this kind of thing is … Continue reading Q&A: how can I find user experience jobs in the Bay Area?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qanda","category-ux","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}