From the course: Finding a Job in User Experience
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Building a reputation
- When you look at people, who've been in the industry for a while, who seem to know a lot, whose posts get reposted, who write articles and books, it's hard to remember that they started off their careers without any of that reputation. One of the best ways to build a reputation is to be seen to be sharing useful information. Of course, it's really easy to just find popular content online and repost it, but that's not what I mean. Your reputation comes from the value you add. Even if you're new to the field, you can still have opinions. You can summarize topics, write posts and analyze events. Here's an exercise you can do to try this out. Think about a user experience article you read recently. What was thought provoking about it? What did you agree with? What did you disagree with? What questions did it leave unanswered for you? Answering those four questions is enough to generate a whole new article of original…
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