Why is it so hard to break into UX?

Strategies to help you land your dream job

Meghan Wenzel
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readMar 12, 2021

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Two people sketch out wireframes for an iPhone app.
Photo by Amélie Mourichon on Unsplash

Most people agree that it’s hard to land your first UX role. As the field has grown in popularity, aspiring UXers are often frustrated by the lack of entry level roles and stiff competition to land the few that do exist.

About three years ago, a former colleague mentioned how she had 200+ applications for a…

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