Recently the fearless community had a fantastic 'Designing your career' panel. We invited Petter Silfver, Stefan Twerdochlib, Josefine Edsbrand to talk about their careers in the open panel. And we are excited to share with you the takeaway we had from this session!

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https://vimeo.com/484356378

<aside> 👉 Here is a quick glance of the content!

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1. 🏃‍♂️**Foot in the door**

• What should junior designers/students look out for when trying to get a position in design industry?
• What is the kind of definition of a good portfolio?How could people actually prepare for that?
• How to stand out in front of the crowd?

2. 🏋️‍♀️ Leveling Up!

• So you got the role, and you are now working. What should you do next?
• How do you know what area you'd like to grow?
• How to get efficient feedback?
• How you design the progression of your design team in Volvo Car Mobility?
• How you help people at Klarna?

3. 💼 Management or Craft?

• How should designers think about moving into management and the different tracks to go into (Design or management)?
• How do you maintain the strong culture in your team overtime when career shifts are getting shorter and shorter?

4.👀 Q&A

• Q: What makes a good project presentation during an interview. When do you feel impressed by the candidate during an interview and why?
• Q: I have been in talk with some friends who works 80 or 50 percent to invest time either family or their own company ? What are your perceptions on switching up your working percentage?
• Q: How can you make sure someone can get their personality across in the first stage when applying for a job?
• Q: Any books that had a big impact on your career?

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What should junior designers/students look out for when trying to get a position in design industry?

Stefan:

I think it's difficult. One of the things about trying to get your foot in the door is always hard, because people want you to have experience. But if you don't have experience, how do you get in there? What I always tell everybody trying to get that first experience is just to be patient, just apply apply, apply and just try to get in, and then try to get involved in your design communities.

Josefine:

I agree with Stefan. We look a lot into portfolio when we get applications, so put time to create a really good portfolio and don't stop at showcasing only one case. Show different cases and different projects that you have been working on.