I'm a budding UX Designer with no exp in the field besides one client project and some school ones. However, for 5+ years I've been a part of User Testing groups and have participated in user research interviews for different companies like Lions Gate, the Canadian Government, Pinterest, etc. I did it to make a little bit of pocket change, but it ended up teaching me about how user researchers collect data and what types of questions they ask.
Would it be valuable experience to put on my resume?

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I wouldn’t put it on your resume but it’s a great talking point during interviews. I’d focus more on the nuggets of insight you’ve learned from it than the actual experience.

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Gotcha! Thanks so much :)

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I’d say it’d be a good talking point, but not worth putting on your resume.

In my opinion, This is kind of like applying for a job at a movie studio as a producer and saying you go to early movie screenings—it shows you have interest and passion, but it doesn’t tell me much about your understanding of the how and why.


I think this is something you could use to paint a bigger picture of your journey to UX, but it shouldn’t be one of your resume bullets unless you did a ton of user interviews.

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Great analogy, thank you! That makes a lot of sense. I'll definitely use it more a as a talking point then!

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