Hello lovely people I've been working as a user researcher for nearly a year now, and alongside my work I manage this blog and talk a lot about how much of an exciting industry digital is, often on social media, and its potential to be super empowering. So it makes sense that I get asked a lot of questions around what it is I actually do, how I chose the job and how I got into digital with relatively little experience and degrees in social sciences. It's evident to me that so

After months and months of searching high and low, travelling up and down the country (across the world?) perfecting your CV, cover letter and portfolio, showing off your best self, you've finally DONE IT! The contract has landed in your lap, you sign it, you eagerly await your first project, but now what?! You've spent all your energy on getting the job and now you've got it, it feels like you're back at square one again. Fear not my junior UXers, all will be revealed below: