Design Hires Podcast Hiring & Developing Early Career Designers with Sam Daugherty
Formerly a teacher, Sam Daugherty fell into the design world by accident and is now a Senior Designer at a FinTech company. In this episode, you’ll hear about his career journey, how he thinks about hiring and developing early career designers, balancing work and personal life, and much more.
Here’s a look at our discussion:
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0:00 : Letting your personality shine through
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5:00 : What Sam’s been up to recently & how he got into design
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12:00 : Teaching early career designers to communicate with engineers & stakeholders
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25:30 : Hiring for team and personality fit vs. hard skills
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28:00 : Hiring for cultural diversity and neurodiversity
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40:00 : What qualities Sam & Nadia look for when hiring early designers
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51:00 : Convincing hiring managers that you don’t need to hire senior designers for every role
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58:00 : Acknowledging that design is hard work, but there are some pretty great benefits to the flexibility you have in many design roles
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