You Are Not Entitled To A Job Because You Have a UX Degree/Bootcamp Certificate!

I was talking with a new LinkedIn connection yesterday, with both of us being long term veterans of the web design/digital design/UX design sphere and we have reached the same conclusion: there is a lack of honesty and forthrightness regarding UX Design programs, courses, bootcamps, and schools about how competitive the field is and how easy, or how NOT easy it is to land a job, even with a degree or certificate. That includes all design disciplines like web, industrial, and graphic design.

No one said this was going to be easy folks. Finding a job could take months. It might even take a year even if you get your masters in Human Computer Interaction. In this post-pandemic work-from-home market, you’re competing against the best across the country, if not the world (Being a Digital Nomad is the hot new thing, my former host country of Croatia offers one).

Even though graphic/web/ux/industrial design are considered the “practical I can actually make money in it art” and not “fine art”, but just like music, ballet, dancing, acting, singing, it’s still tough.

When it comes to those magical guarantees that these bootcamps make about getting you a job when you “graduate”, they come with protozoa sized small print filled with caveats and conditions.

The internet, Web 2.0 (aren’t we on 3.0 or 9.5 now?) has made it worse with unregulated online certificates that lack a universal standards board for the…