Your UX Boot Camp Will NOT Get You A Job: Unless You Do These Critically Important Steps
“Because in the end, the person who ultimately makes or breaks your UX career is yourself.”
There are no doubt, a ton of people who are shifting careers into user experience design with the help of boot camps such as General Assembly, Bloc, Career Foundry and many, many others. In fact, these schools seem to have found a niche around transitioning people to tech careers, and there is clearly a demand for it.
And for good reason. Although user experience design has arguably been around since the dawn of time, it is a field which has not seen a huge rise in popularity and demand until recent years, and the exponential growth of demand for technology reflects in the massive number of UX related jobs available.
And the pay and benefits are quite solid, too. In fact, Payscale reports that even entry user experience designers can make nearly $70k per year, with senior and top-level people reporting a salary well into the six figures.
What is also exciting is that the field of user experience design is not exactly cut and dry, such as being a heart surgeon, or a police officer, or a dentist. There are many different variations and interpretations of what a user…
