• Hiring & Developing Early Career Designers with Sam Daugherty

  • Apr 24 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Hiring & Developing Early Career Designers with Sam Daugherty

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  • Formerly a teacher, Sam Daugherty fell into the design world by accident and is now a Senior Designer at a FinTech company. In this episode, you’ll hear about his career journey, how he thinks about hiring and developing early career designers, balancing work and personal life, and much more. 

     

    Here’s a look at our discussion:

    • 0:00 : Letting your personality shine through

    • 5:00 : What Sam’s been up to recently & how he got into design

    • 12:00 : Teaching early career designers to communicate with engineers & stakeholders

    • 25:30 : Hiring for team and personality fit vs. hard skills

    • 28:00 : Hiring for cultural diversity and neurodiversity

    • 40:00 : What qualities Sam & Nadia look for when hiring early designers

    • 51:00 : Convincing hiring managers that you don’t need to hire senior designers for every role

    • 58:00 : Acknowledging that design is hard work, but there are some pretty great benefits to the flexibility you have in many design roles

     

    Links mentioned in this episode:

    • Sam’s LinkedIn Profile

    • Sam's Portfolio Site

    • Behind the Bastards Podcast

    • A Bit of Optimism Podcast

     
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