Headhunter Secrets

BarCamp Session at UXcamp Europe

UXcamp Europe is one the of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals. Once a year in Berlin, more than 500 participants from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Development, Interaction & Interface Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability meet to discuss the latest developments and current challenges of their shared field of work. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts. The specific format of the conference is a BarCamp - an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. On each of this year's two conference days, 60 sessions took place - each of which was fully booked.

I had the honour to moderate one of the BarCamp sessions together with my fellow colleagues: Claudia Wulf, owner, NAKAMA Germany and Asta Baumöller, owner, MELT.MEDIA RECRUITMENT. The aim was to give the audience an overview of the current market situation and at the same time provide a better insight into the diversity and value of the design recruiting service. The title of our session: ‘Headhunter Secrets’.

Headhunter Secrets

BarCamp Session at UXcamp Europe

UXcamp Europe is one the of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals. Once a year in Berlin, more than 500 participants from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Development, Interaction & Interface Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability meet to discuss the latest developments and current challenges of their shared field of work. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts. The specific format of the conference is a BarCamp - an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. On each of this year's two conference days, 60 sessions took place - each of which was fully booked.

I had the honour to moderate one of the BarCamp sessions together with my fellow colleagues: Claudia Wulf, owner, NAKAMA Germany and Asta Baumöller, owner, MELT.MEDIA RECRUITMENT. The aim was to give the audience an overview of the current market situation and at the same time provide a better insight into the diversity and value of the design recruiting service. The title of our session: ‘Headhunter Secrets’.

Headhunter Secrets

BarCamp Session at UXcamp Europe

UXcamp Europe is one the of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals. Once a year in Berlin, more than 500 participants from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Development, Interaction & Interface Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability meet to discuss the latest developments and current challenges of their shared field of work. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts. The specific format of the conference is a BarCamp - an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. On each of this year's two conference days, 60 sessions took place - each of which was fully booked.

I had the honour to moderate one of the BarCamp sessions together with my fellow colleagues: Claudia Wulf, owner, NAKAMA Germany and Asta Baumöller, owner, MELT.MEDIA RECRUITMENT. The aim was to give the audience an overview of the current market situation and at the same time provide a better insight into the diversity and value of the design recruiting service. The title of our session: ‘Headhunter Secrets’.

Headhunter Secrets
BarCamp Session at UXcamp Europe

UXcamp Europe is one the of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals. Once a year in Berlin, more than 500 participants from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Development, Interaction & Interface Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability meet to discuss the latest developments and current challenges of their shared field of work. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts. The specific format of the conference is a BarCamp - an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. On each of this year's two conference days, 60 sessions took place - each of which was fully booked.

I had the honour to moderate one of the BarCamp sessions together with my fellow colleagues: Claudia Wulf, owner, NAKAMA Germany and Asta Baumöller, owner, MELT.MEDIA RECRUITMENT. The aim was to give the audience an overview of the current market situation and at the same time provide a better insight into the diversity and value of the design recruiting service. The title of our session: ‘Headhunter Secrets’.

Headhunter Secrets
BarCamp Session at UXcamp Europe

UXcamp Europe is one the of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals. Once a year in Berlin, more than 500 participants from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Development, Interaction & Interface Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability meet to discuss the latest developments and current challenges of their shared field of work. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts. The specific format of the conference is a BarCamp - an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. On each of this year's two conference days, 60 sessions took place - each of which was fully booked.

I had the honour to moderate one of the BarCamp sessions together with my fellow colleagues: Claudia Wulf, owner, NAKAMA Germany and Asta Baumöller, owner, MELT.MEDIA RECRUITMENT. The aim was to give the audience an overview of the current market situation and at the same time provide a better insight into the diversity and value of the design recruiting service. The title of our session: ‘Headhunter Secrets’.

Headhunter Secrets

Landscape: Who are currently the most important players in design? From Agencies & Branding/Strategic Design Consultancies, Digital-Labs, Management & IT Consultancies to Tech Brands and Tech StartUps.

Fields: How does the current diversification in user-centric design look like? What are the most sought-after profiles? From Strategic Designer to Experience- and Business Designer. What are the most wanted product-experiences/approaches? From Mobile, E-commerce, Embedded Systems to Design Thinking, Lean UX and Agile.

Sweet spots: What are the current sweet spots in the industry? From Artificial Intelligence (e.g.: Conversational Interfaces), Augmented and Virtual Reality to designing for Gesture and Tangible Interaction, Wearables. Designing products, services or even entire organizations at the intersections of Business Strategy, Technology & Experience. Creating a more sensible society operating within a sustainable paradigm.

Top combinations: UX + Management expertise / UX + Product Strategy expertise / UX + Coding Skills + UI + Entrepreneurial expertise / UX + Consulting expertise

USP: What do you think is your USP as UX-Designer? Why and how to communicate?

Relationship building: perfect candidate/client vs. pain in the ass candidate/client

Reputation: recommendation, referral, networking and partnership

Consultancy and coaching: Salary benchmarks, best practices and insights

Business model: Recruiting models and commission schemes