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Career Services in Coda! [Katie Rivard]
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      • Career Services Orientation
        • Lesson: Getting The Most Out of Career Services
        • How-to guide: Building a Job Search Strategy
        • Questionnaire: Career Services Check-In
        • Lesson: Understanding the Grind
        • Lesson: Exploring Various Roles in Design
        • Lesson: Exploring Different Workplaces for Designers
        • Lesson: Exploring Design Across Industries
        • Lesson: Common Skills & Competencies
        • Project: Career Goals and Ambitions
        • Lesson: Setting Daily and Weekly Goals
        • How-to Guide: Job Tracking with Huntr
        • Project: Saving and Applying to Jobs with Huntr
      • Resume & Cover Letters
        • Lesson: UX Design Resumes
        • Lesson: Cover Letter
        • Lesson: How to Answer Questions on Applications
        • Lesson: Requirements in an Application
        • Project: Create Your Resume
        • Project: Create Your Cover Letter
      • Job Finding Strategies
        • Project: Research Jobs & Companies in Your Area
        • Project: Freelance Project
      • Enhancing Your Skills
        • Lesson: How to Stay Relevant and Ready
        • Lesson: Animation & Interactive Prototyping
        • Lesson: Front-End Development Skills
        • Lesson: Finding More Projects
      • Portfolio Improvements
        • Lesson: Creating a Company or Job Specific Portfolio Page
      • Interview Preparation
        • Lesson: Interview Questions
        • Lesson: What to Ask in an Interview
        • Lesson: How to Conduct Yourself in an Interview
        • Lesson: How to Present Your Work Like a Pro
        • Project: Interview Questions
        • Project: Mock Interview
      • Job Offers & Negotiations
        • Lesson: How to Review an Offer
        • Lesson: Salary Expectations
        • Salary Negotiation
        • Lesson: How to Deal With Rejection
        • Project: Salaries and Benefits Research
      • Networking & Social Media
        • Getting a Job Through Current Connections
        • Lesson: Gather Your References
        • Lesson: Attending an In-Person Networking Event
        • Lesson: Which Social Networks to Use and How
        • Lesson: Social Media Tips & Tricks
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          Lesson: Discover the Design Community
        • Project: Identifying Potential Connections
        • Project: Design Your Business Cards
        • Project: Research Events to Attend
        • Project: Polish Up Your Social Media
      • Storytelling & Presentations
        • Lesson: How to Present Your Work Like a Pro
      • Preparing for Your First Day
        • Lesson: Working Remotely as a Designer
        • Lesson: Freelancing as a Designer
        • Lesson: Should Designers Code?
        • Lesson: Your First Year in a New Design Role
      • Cross-Functional Teamwork
        • Lesson: Working Within a Team
        • Lesson: Working With a Developer
      • Whiteboard & Take-Home Challenges
        • Lesson: Design Challenges
        • Lesson: Whiteboard Challenges
        • Project: Take-Home Design Challenge
        • Project: Whiteboard Challenge
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Lesson: Discover the Design Community
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Lesson: Discover the Design Community

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Although the design community as a whole can seem quite large—especially online—it’s very tight knit, and closer than you might imagine. Discovering the right people to follow, become friends with, and continue discussions with, can help your chances of finding a good job, as well as help you keep learning as a designer.
Use the following platforms to discover designers to follow and engage with:
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Dribbble
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Behance
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Twitter
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Designer News
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Design-specific Slack Channels
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The Designership
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Content + UX
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Platforms like Dribbble and Behance can provide you with great inspiration for upcoming projects, and help you gain a sense of your own design style. You also have the opportunity to engage with your “design heroes” by viewing their work and commenting on it.
Twitter takes that engagement a step further, and allows you to engage in direct conversations with designers you admire. Designer News can help you stay up to date on various topics, trends, and elements of design.
Design-specific Slack channels provide a wider network of people you might want to engage with, learn from, and share content with. While these are slightly more time-consuming to be a part of, you never know how a connection from one of them might lead to a future endeavor.
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