Bridge: Headed to Austin for UXPA 2023
A quick note, in case you're in the area (or want a copy of my talk)
Hey y’all!
I wanted send out a quick note to let you know that I’ll be in Austin, TX for the User Experience Professional Association (UXPA) conference. I’ll be speaking on the first day (Tuesday, June 20 at 4:30pm) about all the things that are currently broken in design hiring:
This session is designed for both job seekers and design managers. The way we do design hiring today is broken. Candidates are required to do too much up-front and still have to complete a long chain of interviews to get an offer. On the other side, hiring managers are overwhelmed by applicants – making it difficult to decide who to move forward into interviews and how to efficiently evaluate skills during the process. This deep-dive will walk through how the design team at Chipper re-evaluated the effectiveness of our hiring process and redesigned it to optimize for: Equity, Respect for candidates’ and team members’ time, and Measurement of the “right skills” for each open position. In the back half of the talk, we’ll also discuss how AI – specifically ChatGPT – is changing the way we’re evaluating portfolios. Join us for a discussion of how “best practices” in hiring must evolve to keep up with expectations from employers and candidates, alike.
If this sounds like a talk that you’d be interested in, send me a message! I’d be happy to send you a copy of the talk. If you’ll be at the conference, feel free to say hi 👋 I’d love to meet you in-person!
That’s it for this little bridge 🎵 Keep an eye out for another beat in the next few weeks.
Until next time 🥁
This note was inspired by an excellent post from Nat on Simpler Machines. If you haven’t read their newsletter already, I highly recommend heading over there and subscribing! Nat’s got a way to make you scratch your head and say to yourself “huh, I never thought about it that way before…” which I love!