171: The 6-Word Post-It Note To Speed Up & Fix Your UX Job Search

Are you spending hours on your UX job search but not actually making progress? The problem usually isn't effort. It's focus. Most job seekers stay busy tweaking portfolios, scrolling job boards, and hanging out in Slack groups, but at the end of the day, they can't point to anything that moved them closer to getting hired.

In this episode of the Career Strategy Podcast, Sarah Doody shares a simple Post-It note hack that transformed how she runs her business, and how you can use the same concept to cut through the noise and focus on what actually matters in your job search.

Topics discussed in this episode:

✅ The 6-word question a business coach told Sarah to write on a Post-It note

✅ Why "being busy" in your job search is not the same as making progress

✅ How to identify what your job search actually needs right now

✅ Why tweaking your portfolio for the fifth time probably isn't the answer

✅ How to create your own Post-It note filter for your UX job search

✅ The difference between false productivity and real momentum

Timestamps:

00:00 The best productivity tool might be a Post-It note

00:24 The 6-word question that changed how Sarah runs her business

02:24 Why "is this a revenue generating activity" was a game changer

04:49 Your job search is like a business

05:45 How to write your own Post-It note question

06:30 The trap of tweaking your portfolio all Saturday

07:06 False sense of productivity and why it's the enemy of getting hired

08:45 You don't need more time, you need the right focus

09:33 Send Sarah your Post-It note on LinkedIn

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