FREED Guide · Job Search and Career Change
Job Search and Career Change: A Practical Guide for Your Next Step
Job searching is rarely an isolated event: it starts with a question (should I stay or should I go?), continues with less visible preparation, and ends in conversations where your network weighs more than your resume. In this guide, we've gathered our articles on job searching, career changes, and career design, ordered as a route: first decide, then prepare and search, and finally sustain the decision over time.
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Unemployed? Follow These Tips to Find Your Next Job
Unemployed? Before you start looking for a new job, complete a few simple exercises and learn about a tool that will help you in this challenge.
Read the guideIs it time for a career change?
Before updating your resume, it's worth reviewing the decision. These articles help distinguish a temporary bad patch from a real sign that it's time to move on.
Job searching: method, not luck
The search works best when it has structure: clear objectives, a list of companies, prepared messages, and a sustainable pace, even in difficult contexts.
Unemployed? Follow These Tips to Find Your Next Job
Unemployed? Before you start looking for a new job, complete a few simple exercises and learn about a tool that will help you in this challenge.
Job Searching During a Crisis
Do you have a plan for finding your next job? Here, we offer valuable advice for navigating job market uncertainty during times of crisis.
Tips for Changing Jobs While Employed
It's easier to find a new job when you're already employed, but you need to be careful with your strategy and attitude. Follow the experts' advice.
Your network and your professional narrative
Most opportunities come through people. Here's how to activate your network without discomfort and how to coherently tell your career story.
Your Network: The Most Powerful Job Search Tool
Did you know that 80% of hires are made through referrals? Learn how to map your network now to boost your job search.
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Career Goals: How to Define Them (with Examples)
Learn how to effectively define your career goals. Review the examples and start working on reasonable objectives.
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Your Professional Career, Your Story to Write
Explore your career interests with the Professional Career Planner. Activities and planning tools to manage your next steps.
Read the guideHow to Become a UX Researcher Without Experience
Changing jobs sometimes means changing disciplines. These testimonials and guides show how a career transition into user research is done.
How to Prepare for a UX Researcher Role Application
Design your strategy to enter the world of experience design as a UX Researcher, even without prior experience. Check out these ideas and tips.
From Journalist to UX Researcher: A Natural Progression
UX Researcher: How to become an expert in UX Research coming from journalism. Both activities have a lot in common, more than you might think.
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