CareerFoundry

I'm very happy to have made the decision to go with CareerFoundry in my career change from the dead-end, unfulfilling role of audio/visual engineer to UI/UX designer. Being very creatively-minded since young, I think I had a strong advantage when it came to studying this course and finishing it in 4 months. 

It covers the fundamentals of (UI) design as well as UX in order to start working in this field. You'll finish with a solid portfolio, however, after I completed the course I still created a few more projects to add a bit more diversity to mine.

The Career Change Achievement helps in refining your CV, cover letter template and in general prepares you for entering the job market, but I think this is where you have to do most of the legwork. I haven't seen many job opportunities come directly from the career placement team, but I've been busy applying for jobs myself over the past two weeks or so since finishing. I've had two promising interviews so far with another tomorrow, and I'm confident that I will have a full-time job shortly. 

I am 26 years old Indian women who's marriage stayed only for 4 months and struggling to get justice. In such a terrible phase of my life I could not think of anything. I was completely shattered but CareerFoundry platform is the Only ray of sunshine into my life. For a girl like me who is been dominated by society and family became confident about herself. Careerfoundry helped me to envision , plan , take actions to redesign my life again. My tutors and mentors are always supportive. Whenever I get stuck whether in code or in some personal problem by tutor is always there to guide me and help to resolve issues. Slowly and gradually with the course I am becoming confident in my skills and knowledge . Slack community is always active and provides huge resources. Its career specialist team is there to help to get the job that we love and offers 100% full refund if we don't get job we love. Also helps in grooming our interpersonal skills , building resume and making us a better version of ourself. Everything is transparent and this build a confidence between me and CareerFoundry. Today I will say joining CareerFoundry was the best decison of my life. I will always be obliged to the entire Team of CareerFoundry and proud to be a part of its family.

I started with my Certified UX Designer Program in February. I was a bit concerned since I work full-time and the program requires aprx. 15 hours per week. But so far, it works perfectly. I managed to have two dedicated days per week to study in the evening and a half day at the weekend. So far, I am in time and had not to skip a social event.

The class itself is super much fun although it is very challening. I am working as a customer relationship manager, so I know a bit of the topic, but there is so much to learn that I would have never expected before. It is interesting because of very good written texts, links and great examples to get further information, but no videos. When I was at University, I studied history, so I am used to dealing with a lot of text. Therefore for me the style of learning is perfect. Content-wise I do learn a lot about design theories, flows, how to sort and structure thoughts and insights, as well as to present my findings. 

The programm is sheduled in doable lessons. One takes me an evening or sometimes more, when I have to shedule interviews or other appointments.

My tutor gives me extremely detailed feedback, much more then I expected. This helps me a lot, especially when I think I did well and than get so many new perspectives from my tutor how to improve.

I am happy to learn so much more until my graduation in December 2017!

I felt it was necessary to put this up here as CareerFoundry has done a whole lot in the last four months that needs to be recognized so future students can get an inside look at how well the school is progressing.

I started just a few months ago and prior I was extremely skeptical being within the UX community for quite a few month prior to that. I got the chance to give CF's completely new curriculum and school a go as one of the first students to hit the ground running when they released it. So far I am extremely happy with everything and couldnt have made a better choice looking back at the anxiety I had choosing a school.

I have a wonderful Mentor and Tutor who support me the entire way and have different jobs when it comes to making sure I succeed. The community on Slack is wonderful and you always feel like you have other students by your side as if you were going to normal college. The course is well laid out and definitely not easy, you need to put your head down and dig right in to make sure you are getting 120% out of all the material they provide as there is an abundance of information you get on every topic along with assignments, direct feedback and skype calls from your tutor and mentor. The layout is well planned and visually beautiful as well as they just updated the look and feel again of the course which has made it easier to navigate and see your progress.

The biggest skeptiscism I had with all the UX and UI bootcamps was job placement. This is something that I know for many people feels like a safety net almost if your coming from a unrelated field and making a leap of faith. CF has a full blown team dedicated to not only working with you on job placement at the end, but from day one you'll see specialist hanging out in Slack getting involved in the community with different events like portfolio challenges or local meetups and special holiday events. This really intrigued me when I first saw it because not once in the past have I EVER seen involvement like this from a career team. I could talk to any of them about anything from accountability meetups to improving my resume. Super useful!

I could go on for hours about other things that have pleasently surprised me with CF but I dont want to waste anyones time here. All in all 5/5 for CF. The experience has been wonderful and I look forward to continuing and finishing my journey as a student with them!

I’m a Tutor at CareerFoundry and I can tell you In my opinion as an experienced UI-Designer the course is solid, the staff is so friendly, we have a very responsive community of designer and students, the mentors are so talented! I'm really happy to be part of such a talented community of designers. If someone out there is interested to give it a try here is a promo link that discounts $200 usd from any of the programs CF have: http://mbsy.co/careerfoundry/28708517

I loved this course. It's pretty thorough and a lot of work, but I had a great mentor - Angelo - who was very helpful and gave great feedback. They won't let you slide by if it's not good enough.

There were definitely a lot of late nights and it's a grind to stay on top of things if you work full time. It's manageable though if you use your time wisely.

I definitely reccomend this for anyone interested in UX. There is also a lot of UI learning in the course, as well.

I was a student here of the UI Design Course some time ago, (around 6-7 months) ,and I loved it !! Just wanna share some quick story, on how the UI Design course, created a change for me.

I never intended to join a company, but instead I had some marketing and product creation experience, I intended to merge 'em together and create my own stuff...

So, I don't have any experiences to share that relate directly to UI Design as such, but overall this course, helped me in amazing ways. Some examples:

1) I was contacted by a company to prepare their sales funnel. Now, the audience research bits in the UI Design course, helped me do a solid research of their audience, their paying capacity, which in turn helped me create the perfect Sales Funnel for my clients. Result? Well, a company that was making $20k in revenue, made close to $82k in revenue after the researched and Deep Sales Funnel I made for them, using the concepts I learned in this course.

2) I tried launching my own product (Won't share the link here, because I don't wanna be a self promoting jerk) and the wireframing, prototyping and the complete design process I learnt here, helped me amazingly to close more clients, because now I was able to successfully use what I learnt to find my perfect client base, do some good user research, and create the perfect desirable product.

3) Even on my Social Media Advertising Campaigns, I had a better understanding of A/B Split Tests, the campaigns I made, and whom I had to target, and even make better designs, with appropriate colors to give the best emotional effect.

So, if you are still not sure, what I am rambling about here. Its that, you don't ONLY need to follow a design path, or a development path using the courses. If you are more focused and interested on something totally different, the courses you take here can still benefit you 10 times fold, because the course material here at CF, not only covers the immediate subject, but also covers a wider aspect, which you can use for creating your own products, creating better experiences for your clients and overall using the skills on any business that you can possibly want to expand to..

I started the UX Design course that CareerFoundry offers back in August. My background is BA & Marketing and I was kind of scared if I would be able to finish on time and follow the material. 

Six months later I have to say that I'm absolutely happy with the course, the tasks you had to do and most importantly the mentor I had. She was great! She poitned me out in the right direction, giving me feedback on time and answering all of my questions timely and fully.

If you work at the same time (like I did), you have to be ready to give up most of your spare time and be dedicated and willing to work as it's a new career path and there are many new things to learn. Other than that CF provides all the tools someone needs to excel! 

After the course they also provide further help to assist you with landing your first job.

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Just finished my 6 month program for UX Design and it was really a great experience. The achievements throughout the course are helpful and explained well. If you're dedicated and follow through step-by-step, you'll easily be on your way to a UX career after you're done.

Leah (mentor) and Abhi (tutor) were an amazing combination and I could not have asked for a better team. Abhi was there for my day to day needs and responded to every question I had in less than 24hrs. When I was stuck, he walked me through it. Anything I needed, he was my go-to. Leah was very thoughtful in her guidance and was extremely thorough whenever I asked her a question. She went above and beyond in her explanations and our "mentor calls" really prepared me for all of the next steps, both for the achievements within the course and for starting a career after graduating.

If you're on the fence (like I was before starting), you should definitely take a chance and go for it. It's an investment in yourself and this is definitely the most efficient way of doing it. And if you decide to move forward, I highly recommend you asking for Leah and Abhi by name. You can't go wrong!

I have just completed my course on UX Design with CF and i feel really happy for my choice.

It’s a great kickstart for a career change as you learn the whole process of UX while designing an web application and not only reading.

As a complete beginner coming from Graphic Design i really had to put some effort but it worth it all the way.

Having a full time job and a family while studying was hard sometimes but i never felt alone there. Support team did a fantastic job and they even offered to me 3 weeks for free to complete my course after having some issues with a few assignments.

And finally i had a great mentor, Gökcen Keskin, whose feedback really helped me to design the app better and motivated me for taking the right decisions.