Research-to-design workflow
UX designer job search
Find UX roles that fit your research and product strengths
Design titles overlap. Read for the actual mix of discovery, interaction design, visual craft, prototyping, research, systems work, and product partnership.
Fit signals
Review the role before you tailor anything
A fit score is a triage aid, not a hiring prediction. Use it to decide what deserves a closer read.
Interaction, visual, and systems depth
Product domain and collaboration model
A practical search plan
Build a smaller, higher-signal pipeline
Identify the design mix
Estimate how much of the role is discovery, interaction, visual craft, design systems, or research.
Select matching case studies
Use projects that demonstrate the same type of ambiguity, constraints, and collaboration.
Make outcomes credible
Separate observed user or business effects from assumptions and team-wide results.
What Kairo automates
- Searches a live jobs source using your role, location, and work-mode filters.
- Ranks results against the career profile and documents you choose to provide.
- Creates a role-specific CV draft from the job description when you request one.
What stays in your hands
- You decide which roles are worth pursuing and which listings to dismiss.
- You review every generated document before downloading or sending it.
- You open the employer's source page and complete the application yourself.
Review before you apply
Generated suggestions are drafts. Accuracy, eligibility, and final application choices always need your judgment.
- 1Link each featured project to the role's core design problem.
- 2State your individual contribution clearly.
- 3Include constraints and iteration, not only polished screens.
- 4Avoid outcome metrics you cannot trace to a source.
Questions about this workflow
Is a portfolio more important than a tailored UX CV?
The portfolio carries deeper evidence, while the CV helps a recruiter find the relevant case studies quickly. They should tell the same, role-specific story.
How should UX designers use job-description keywords?
Use the team's real language when it accurately describes your experience. Do not rename work or invent methods simply to mirror a listing.
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