UX Researcher Job Interview TIPS | How to Prepare for UX Recruiter Call & Hiring Manager | PART 1

It's 16 minutes of GOLD. Wish I had this information when I first started out.

Hi Kevin! I've been wanting to seek some help in regards to starting out a personal project and breaking into UX career! But it seems like the consultation call service on the zerotoux website is not working at the moment :(

as always Kevin, another great video with pearls of wisdom and gold nuggets of information from both of you. I'm a seasoned (7+ years) UX researcher and I still get a lot of value from your videos. Keep up the great work!

Hey Kevin thanks for the video. For the part where the manager might ask you to walk through your research including impact on stakeholders/company impact.. how do you say the impact on something if it was just a portfolio project and not something you turned into a company. This is especially if you only have projects in your portfolio right now and have yet to get your first real UXR position

Hey Kevin in a previous video you mentioned a question that could be one asked in the second round call with a UXR such as: you have 3 designs and 2 weeks how would you go about evaluating them? I know there’s no right or wrong answer but how detailed should it be? Should you detail from how you recruit to how you present the results to stakeholders?
Or should it be high level?

Thanks for the helpful content.

Fantastic tips!! You guys rock! Thanks so much! <3
Quick question, how do you get a recruiter to call you? Is it where you place your portfolio? Are they calling you because you applied to that position? Sorry if this is an obvious question!

Thank you so much for this video!! Very insightful and looking forward to the next one!

can you do a video on interview tests? i had to do a take home test as part of the second interview. The first part was advising a team on how to conduct an A/B test and the second was how i would go about culturally adapting a successful mobile banking app to another market.

Like you, i have an extensive academic and interviewing background. They said I answered the questions thoroughly but said i was a little green and that it really didnt reflect the world of ux (dealing with demanding stakeholders).

Anyway, can you do a video on tasks you had to complete and explain the mental shift you had to make from looking at things as a academic to a UX Researcher...with minimal experience?

Nice video, Kevin!

How do you know if your initial call with the recruiter didn't go well?

Got an recruiter interview for Google this Friday.. thank you so much for this video!

Thank you so much.This is very helpful for me.

Hi Kevin.
Thanks for your videos and advice, it really is pure gold and offers a huge knowledge base for many of us trying to understand the industry, its barriers to entry and what employers are really looking for. I really love the chemistry you seem to build with all of your guests.

I would really appreciate some advice. I am becoming more and more convinced that UX research is for me but currently have little experience other than some online courses. My academic background is not necessarily relevant (I studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics as my BA) and am 25 years old so feel time is off the essence really. I am strongly considering doing an MSc in Cognitive Science at UCL to make up for the academic gap and build knowledge not only in cognitive psychology but also academic research methods. What are your thoughts on this? Do you feel that employers at big tech companies for instance are looking for academic research standards and knowledge of statistical research methods - or could I be better off investing my time and money into UX Research courses / creating my own studies to build my own portfolio? (or both?). Would greatly appreciate your thoughts. Thank you.

give us part II! Such great content! thank you so much - I'm genuinely grateful

Thanks, Kevin and Paula! This video is GOLD! So informative and helpful!

This is brilliant, but I'm curious to understand what it means when someone says 'technical skills' of a UX Researcher. Are they referring to grasp on different kinds of methods or software and tools? Pls, if you could give some examples, then that would also help :)

great input and very helpful

Love your work!;)

Such helpful tips! I’m hoping to kill my interview coming up. Thanks for sharing this conversation.

Very useful @Kevin. Cross the fingers for me. Today is the day ;)

I still have question Kevin

How would you know if their response to my questions were not great but they are a decent company?

Just like interviewing myself, they are also in a way presenting themselves and often impressions are accurate but also
difficult to generalize.

As an applicant to a job, how do you determine if the company is a right fit for me?

Kevin you changed my life. In 2018, I finished my MBA and took a corporate job. I had always been intrigued by Semiotics, Ethnography and Consumer Behaviour studies. In 2020 I came across your channel and I had been looking to switch my career path around that time. Cut to 2022, I am working as a Researcher with a major Startup in India. It took a lot of rejections and a lot of independent studies to convince people but I finally made it.
P.S. Your videos are super authentic. They are not generic and that's what I love about them. More power to you mate!

Guess who has hiring manager interviews next week and is reviewing this in advance? 🤓 Great material.