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During this upcoming GA Meet & Hire event, you'll have the opportunity to meet with the recent graduates of our full-time <A TITLE="User Experience Design Immersive" HREF="https://generalassemb.ly/education/user-experience-design-immersive" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">User Experience Design Immersive</A> course and our full-time<A TITLE="Product Management Immersive" HREF="https://generalassemb.ly/education/product-management-immersive" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Product Management Immersive</A> course.Come check out student's portfolios of design work and talk to them about full-time, contract and apprenticeship opportunities.
Hiring managers, in-house recruiters, and HR personnel are welcome. 
General Assemblydoes not collect a commission for hiring our graduates.Food and refreshments will be provided!
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<LI>Take a human-centered approach to design, including conducting user research, user interviewing, contextual inquiry, and participatory design</LI>
<LI>Create and communicate solutions to business problems that meet customer goals</LI>
<LI>Express design ideas through site maps, user flows, and wireframes</LI>
<LI>Create and conduct usability tests on clickable prototypes</LI>
<LI>Generate useful design documentation, such as case studies and specs, to communicate and collaborate with other team members</LI>
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<LI>Know the tools, techniques, strategies, and processes to identify and successfully take products from conception all the way to market</LI>
<LI>Conduct customer development, market research and competitive analysis to identify new product opportunities/features</LI>
<LI>Build a viable business and financial model appropriate for a feature/product</LI>
<LI>Identify the right MVP to validate your feature/product as well as build a product roadmap, timelines and define product release cycles</LI>
<LI>Create personas and design detailed page flows and layouts; conduct user testing to evaluate designs</LI>
<LI>Define and establish key performance metrics that determine success of product lines</LI>
<LI>Learn to operate as a product owner and project manager in an agile scrum team</LI>
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Our graduates are made up of a group of proactive, creative, collaborative, and motivated user experience designers ready to make a difference in their next position. While our graduates all display a common set of skills and competencies, they each bring their own backgrounds and interests to their work as UX designers and Product Managers. Our students come from fields as diverse as product management, engineering, non-profit management, law, science, finance, and more.

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Format
The event is structured as a reverse job fair. Graduates will be stationed at tables, showcasing their individual and team projects. Employers are free to engage each designer at their discretion. All attendees will receive a GA grad profiles brochure in advance, to make the experience more targeted.
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From growing brands to Fortune 500 companies, our graduates enjoy demonstrable success in a variety of settings. Come and see for yourself.Check out some <A HREF="https://generalassemb.ly/talent" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">success storieshere</A>.
These great companies have hired GA grads:Apple, Google, Salesforce, CapitalOne, WSJ, Johns Hopkins University, HP, and many more

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Please note that this is a hiring event for GA graudate junior UX designers and product managers.
Please only register for this ticket type if you are attending on behalf of a company that is looking to hire junior UX designers and product managers. 
Please do not register if you are a recruiter, looking to hire senior/executive level talent, or are a job seeker that has not graduated from a full-time General Assembly.
For more info on this hiring event, please visit <A HREF="https://generalassemb.ly/education/ux-designer-meet-hire/new-york-city/16318" REL="nofollow">General Assembly</A>.