Best Practices for Hiring Contractors

Best Practices for Hiring Contractors

As we’ve discussed before in this space, contractors can be a great fit for user-focused roles like UX design, technical writing, and e-Learning. For example, your company may be launching a new product that requires a level of UX design complexity that your staff...
How To Improve Your Hiring Success Ratio

How To Improve Your Hiring Success Ratio

Hiring managers are often the unsung heroes in an organization. Though sometimes they are overlooked in favor of flashier customer-facing or technical roles, a good hiring manager can truly make or break a team. If you’re a hiring manager within your organization,...
How To Be A Successful Contractor

How To Be A Successful Contractor

Perhaps you’re ready for a different challenge in your professional life. Maybe you’ve just started a family and are looking for more control over your schedule. Or possibly you’re just eager to take on new projects to sharpen your skills. Whatever your reason for...
Best Practices for Managing Contractors On Your Team

Best Practices for Managing Contractors On Your Team

When many of us think of the hiring process, we usually think of hiring full-time employees, along with all the complications that this entails, from mountains of paperwork to on-boarding efforts and HR briefings. And while finding the perfect full-time employee is...
Predictions for UX in 2018

Predictions for UX in 2018

2018 will undoubtedly be another year of growth and expansion for the UX industry. We’ve already seen tremendous change in 2017, with the rise of new platforms and new ways of thinking about the user experience, including groundbreaking digital and real-life...