Senior Product Design Manager and respected UX community contributor Mitch Clements shares how he created an attentive, fair, and effective hiring process to scale his 26-person (and counting!) design team at Encino. UX hiring managers and job seekers will appreciate Mitch's reflections on: Lessons learned on screening and interviewing candidates in a crowded market, from entry level to advanced practitioners The necessity of implementing a career architecture framework and standardized assessment rubrics to streamline the process and set expectations The importance of empathy, communication, transparency in creating a high quality hiring experience What Mitch looks for when hiring senior designers/IC’s and design managers Why portfolios should NOT be a requirement for applications! How posting on LinkedIn can help hiring managers attract design candidates Optimistic predictions for a resurgence of UX hiring… sometime down the road Links Episode transcript Mitch's website and coaching services Mitch's LinkedIn Please support our work with a rating and review or a throw us a few gold doubloons! Got a request for a topic or guest speaker? Reach out to Amy on LinkedIn.