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Hey Bowlers, I launched an interactive kiosk leveraging Typeform to automate onboarding and personalize customer experiences at scale.
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- Rapid Checkout
- CRM Synchronization
- Integrated Slack Support
- Data Manager
Open to pessimists and optimists alike to give honest feedback on what you think about the product. In search of teaming up with a designer (with pay) if you have useful insights or better story telling abilities. (See link below)
Please and thank you.
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I honestly think a lot of the job posts I see are just wish lists that someone copied and pasted. And I've heard recruiters say if you meet most of the requirements you should just apply. That makes sense to me, some of the qualifications that companies ask for are just absurd, and no single human would comprise them all.
In a few convos Ive had with mentees we talk about this and I typically advise (my opinion) that having an awareness of other skills, not necessarily mastery, and the self-awareness you can adapt should give you confidence. Lean into the narrative you want to tell about yourself and the work you do. I still see so many presentations that feel like the person googled “how to give a presentation as a designer” and it loses the spark of that person’s story within the work. I try to work to have my mentees reframe how they talk about a project as a story about themselves and less about hitting specific notes because the internet handed them a generic outline.
I’d like to think that authenticity and being open about what you’re passionate about in your work is what company and hiring teams want more than a script that hits all the right points.
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OMG I know. I feel like the list is ever growing and between all the different things you need to know for different companies, it feels like you need to know all platforms and skills beneath the sun to qualify. It's actually demoralizing but I apply anyways lol
It's ironic how much that has gone back and forth. If you knew a little bit about everything, it was hard to get a job. Now, having only one niche and not ‘wearing many hats’ is hard. I do still apply, as long as I meet a good number of what they require.
Nowadays, graphic designers definition is much broader: print (packageing), UI UX, animation, video editing, maybe 3D rendering. Basically 3+ different majors from school.
In my experience, job posts always put a big list of requirements of which you’ll probably only need 2/3 of them for the job. Try and go through references and your network for jobs. If you’re in someone’s trust circle, that’s a huge advantage over cold applying online.