132: How Career Strategy Lab's AI Tools Help Mid & Senior UXers Get Hired Faster

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Welcome to the Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, a UX Designer & UX Researcher with 20 years of experience who founded the UX job search accelerator, Career Strategy Lab. She's been doing UX career coaching since 2017.

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Tired of vague AI tools that spit out generic resume rewrites and surface-level portfolio tips? Meet the smarter alternative.

In this episode, Sarah shares the behind-the-scenes strategy behind Sage—the AI agent exclusively available inside Career Strategy Lab—and why it’s already helping job seekers finish their resumes, portfolios, and LinkedIn profiles faster without sacrificing clarity or confidence.

You’ll learn why this tool is more than just a shortcut—it’s a UX-informed, coach-trained experience designed to get you unstuck and back into momentum, 24/7.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔️ The two problems most UX job seekers face: info overload + execution overwhelm

✔️ Why most AI job search tools fail (and how Sage is different)

✔️ How Sage is trained on CSL’s proven curriculum and thousands of real conversations

✔️ Why context-specific feedback beats ChatGPT every time

✔️ How CSL members are using Sage to move faster and stop second-guessing

✔️ The one mindset shift that will help you use AI effectively in your career

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction and Common Job Search Struggles

00:46 Introducing Career Strategy Lab's AI Tools

02:01 Why UX Professionals Struggle in Job Searches

02:39 The Problems Our AI Tools Aim to Solve

06:53 How Our AI Tools Work

13:58 Demo of Sage, Our AI Agent

27:51 Benefits of Using Sage

29:36 Conclusion and Call to Action

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