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Hey friends,
This will be a short one with a pretty big update.
I've been a professional industrial designer for over 12 years. I've been on both the job-seeking and hiring side of the ID job search game multiple times.
And it sucks.
On April 4th, 2023, I put up a LinkedIn post:
I shared a list of highly relevant industrial design jobs in an easy-to-skim format. That post quickly went viral on LinkedIn and has been seen over 400,000 times and got over 4,600 reactions.
For the 23 weeks since then I've picked out a digest of ID jobs posted in the last week and shared the pertinent details in a LinkedIn post. I also shared a full list in this newsletter.
The response has been incredible.
Each week's post usually got seen 15-20,000 times, and tons of comments poured in every week saying how valuable it was.
The weekly jobs email might even be the reason you signed up for this newsletter.
Based on this response, I saw the need for a better ID job board. One that industrial designers can look for jobs on without the frustration of having to weed through a lot of irrelevant postings.
So this week, I’m launching JustIDJobs.com
I'm hoping to grow this into a resource that makes finding industrial design jobs easier for job-seekers and getting more qualified candidates easier for people who are hiring industrial designers.
As I see it, there are 3 main problems with the ID job search:
Too much noise: the standard job sites tend to dump industrial design in with all manner of other design fields, and you have to sift through a LOT of crap to find the jobs that are actually relevant to you.
Fragmentation: industrial design jobs tend to be fragmented across a few industry-specific job boards and more standard job boards. There isn't one place to see a comprehensive list of jobs.
Lack of access to quality information: a lot useful knowledge about hiring practices and specific information about how to make yourself a better candidate is floating around on LinkedIn, in forums, and in people's heads.
JustIDJobs.com aims to solve those 3 problems by:
Showing only industrial design jobs (filtered by a real human)
Aggregating jobs from various different sources to create a comprehensive list
Posting useful content for job seekers
But those are just my ideas.
I'd love to hear from you what would make this resource the most useful for you as an industrial designer, whether looking for a job or hiring for one.
If you have any thoughts or comments, feel free to respond to this email and let me know.
As part of this evolution, some changes are coming to this newsletter. I’ll no longer be sharing a list of ID jobs here every week, and this weekly email will be solely focused on my long-form writing about design, business, and creativity.
If you would still like to get weekly (or even daily!) job updates via email, please sign up for alerts on JustIDJobs.com. They look like this:
If the weekly jobs curation was the main reason you subscribed and you’re not interested in my writing, feel free to unsubscribe with no hard feelings from me.
Last week I got a comment on one of my job posts:
And that is why I keep doing it, week after week.
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Just the ID Jobs Has Moved!
Just the Industrial Design Jobs was a segment of this newsletter that listed only industrial design jobs that were posted within the last week to various job board websites.
This section will no longer be updated, but JustIDJobs.com will be updated daily with new industrial design jobs curated by a real human.
If you’d like to be alerted for new industrial design jobs, you can sign up for a daily or weekly email on JustIDJobs.com.