#23 - Personal Brand, Networking, and Being Proactive | Mitchell Clements
Update: 2023-03-05
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Mitch Clements is a Mentor, Speaker, and UX Manager @ SimpleNexus.
Mitch shares his career journey, switching from an Android engineer to UX. He shares what a personal brand means for an employee, and how you can influence change in a company. Also, we talk about networking by helping design communities, actionable job search advice, and much more. Enjoy 👍
Episode Links:
- Mitch’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-clements/
- ADPList Mentorship Platform: https://adplist.org
- Product Hive Mentorship Platform: https://www.producthive.org
- Front Design Conference: https://www.frontutah.com/
- Book “Articulating Design Decisions”: https://amzn.to/3JcuADt
Podcast Info:
- Podcast website: https://podcast.kirillv.com
- Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3JFr2u8
- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RukfVO
- RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/c09a45dc/podcast/rss
Outline:
- (0:00 ) - Preview
- (1:15 ) - Introduction
- (2:28 ) - Mitch’s career story
- (7:10 ) - Transitioning to a UX manager
- (10:28 ) - Building a personal brand as an employee
- (13:06 ) - Contributing to different design communities
- (18:14 ) - ADPList and Product Hive comparison
- (22:13 ) - Launching a mobile app for portfolio
- (25:48 ) - Benefits of being a part of a company
- (28:44 ) - Economy impact on the team
- (31:23 ) - Change management is hard
- (33:53 ) - Find stakeholder advocates to influence change
- (37:43 ) - Anyone can initiate change
- (43:47 ) - AI impact on the design profession
- (52:10 ) - AI and critical thinking
- (55:01 ) - Resume and portfolio advice
- (59:07 ) - Networking for job searching
- (1:04:39 ) - Experiment with your job search process
- (1:07:15 ) - What would you do if money wasn't a question?
Kirill V Links:
- Newsletter: https://www.kirillv.com
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillvechtomov/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/_kirillv
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@_kirillv
- Support me: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kirillv
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