Looking for your first UX job as an immigrant with Dorsa Mokhtari
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Iranian-born architect and recent UX design graduate shares her experience of moving from Iran to the UK, studying UX at General Assembly and looking for her first UX job. Nirish answers her mentoring questions too.
In this episode:
- Moving from architecture to UX design
- Creativity as self-expression
- Overcoming the language barrier
- The benefits of an interactive teacher-led course
- Coming out of your comfort zone as a teaching assistant
- Pros and cons of not being a non-native speaker
- Looking for your first UX job as an immigrant
- and much more!
Shownotes
Dorsa Mokhtari
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorsa-mokhtari/
https://www.dorsamokhtari.com/
@ux_land on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/ux_land/
General Assembly
Show credits
Illustrations by Isa Vicente
https://www.instagram.com/isadezgz/
Music by Brad Porter
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Bölümler
1. Looking for your first UX job as an immigrant with Dorsa Mokhtari (00:00:00)
2. Welcome (00:02:02)
3. Moving from architecture to UX design (00:02:45)
4. Creativity as self-expression (00:13:42)
5. Overcoming the language barrier (00:15:31)
6. The benefits of an interactive teacher-led course (00:19:31)
7. Coming out of your comfort zone as a teaching assistant (00:21:40)
8. Pros and cons of not being a native speaker (00:22:10)
9. Looking for your first UX job as an immigrant (00:25:55)
10. Creating a portfolio: showing process vs showing your creativity (00:29:38)
11. Seeing yourself as successful (00:36:11)
12. Dorsa's biggest advice for an aspiring UX Designer (00:45:31)
13. Recap (00:54:43)
14. Finding Dorsa online (00:57:20)
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