How Hard Skills Play a Role in Getting a Job

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Hard people skills are almost everything to a certain extent, right? Like if you can't negotiate and read people and understand people and communicate well with people then you might as well just go be your own company of one. We tried very hard to basically get people to do like a little bit of contract work with us first so that we could see what is it like to work with these people. The only way to figure that out is to work with those people.

I had the great honor of being invited back to An Event Apart Denver (2019) to record a live podcast episode with Mina Markham, Farai Madzima, & Derek Featherstone on the important topics of Accessibility, Design Inclusion & Ethics, Hiring & Retaining Diverse Talent and Landing a Job in UX. Amazingly, we were able to cover all of this in just under an hour!

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Thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman + Eric Meyer for letting me share a stage I've revered for over a decade now, thanks to Toby, Marci, Mike & company for the amazing work behind the scenes at every AEA event. Also, very special thanks to Todd Libby for capturing this amazing 4K video on his new iPhone he got just to do this for me.