The Design Journal — Page 4
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Quiet Quitting Costs You More Than It Costs Your Company
I used to hear quiet quitting in candidates' voices on phone screens. Here's what it actually costs the person still doing it.
What a Design Challenge Interview Actually Looks Like
What actually happens in a design challenge interview: the three formats it takes, what a panel is really scoring while you solve, and when a take-home crosses into free labor.
How to Network for a Job When You Hate Networking
You can network for a job without cringe LinkedIn cold-adds. A former technical recruiter breaks down which messages actually get a reply, and why your best leads usually come from outside your own field.
The AI Screening Your Resume Discriminates by Race and Gender. Here's What You Need to Know.
A University of Washington study ran more than three million resume-to-job comparisons using the same document-retrieval approach real hiring tools run on, and found White names beat Black names in 85% of tests, with one matchup landing at a literal 100% to 0%. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down what the research actually found.
Is the Job Market Actually That Bad or Is It Just Me?
If you've been refreshing your inbox and wondering whether it's the market or whether you're the problem, the answer is: both things can be true, but the market is objectively broken in ways that have nothing to do with you.
How to Structure a Resume: A Beginner's Guide to Formatting, Bullets, and ATS
Structure decides whether a resume gets read before a single word does. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down the skeleton every resume should share, with an interactive diagram, plus how to format the PDF so ATS and AI screening tools don't mangle it.