Job applications suck because bad UX

The most punishing part of being unemployed isn’t the lack of steady income, it’s navigating all the job applications.

Daley Wilhelm
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readSep 14, 2023

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A hand holding a crumpled bunch of papers.
Sometimes I feel like crumpling these digital experiences and throwing them in the trash. Photo by Nicola Barts : https://www.pexels.com/photo/anonymous-businessman-making-crumple-of-document-7925827/

It’s not a great time to be trying to break into the field of user experience according to article after article. Nevertheless, I and many other hopefuls, have been persisting. We have polished our resumes…

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A fiction writer turned UX writer dedicated to crisp copy, inclusive experiences, and humanizing tech.