Talented, Experienced ...and Ignored:
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The Hidden System Deciding Which Designers Get Read — and Which Get Overlooked, No Matter How Good the Work Is
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On Friday, July 17th, I’m going to show you the exact repositioning method that’s helped [X]+ designers and researchers get read by the market — and land roles at companies like Capital One, Meta, and Kaiser Permanente.
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Friday, July 17th at 1 PM ETÂ (Check Your Timezone!)
"Rajeev is one of the sharpest career strategists I know in UX. If you're struggling to get traction in the job market, this masterclass is worth your time."
-Christopher Nguyen |Â Founder, UX Playbook
If you’re applying every week and hearing nothing back, the problem isn’t your resume. It’s that the market can’t read you.
Every stalled search starts in the same place. It’s the market. It’s saturated. Nobody’s hiring.
And it feels airtight — you open LinkedIn and it’s layoffs, you open Reddit and it’s four hundred applicants a role. But those are the two windows most likely to confirm the worst version of the market.
Here’s what they don’t show you. In that same market, some people are getting found. Getting the inbound message. Landing the role you’re overqualified for. Same month, same economy.
So it isn’t only the market. Something is separating the people it can see from the people it can’t — and it has nothing to do with who’s better at the work.
Hiring managers in 2026 aren’t sifting 500 “passionate” applicants for a unicorn.They’re scanning for a signal they can read in seconds, and funding the person who’s legible to them.
In this live session I’ll show you where your signal is breaking, why every fix you’ve tried so far couldn’t touch it, and what actually changes it.
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Before the book hits the shelves, you get the foundational chapter for FREE just for securing your seat.
Inside Chapter 1, you’ll see the shift from being read as a “cost center” — a discretionary expense that gets cut — to a “profit center” the company can’t afford to lose.
Read it before we go live on July 17th so you’re primed for the deep-dive.
What We’ll Work Through Live on July 17th The three places every senior search breaks —
and which one is yours:
Market Fit
(The wrong market.)
The strongest experience in the world loses to a market that can’t read it.
I’ll show you how to stop aiming at roles that were never going to see you, and point your signal at the markets that can.
Plus: why “apply to everything” quietly deletes most of your competition’s chances — and yours.
Positioning
(The wrong story.)
Right market, wrong signal. The people who decide don’t read “UX speak” — they read risk and outcome.
I’ll show you how to translate your work into the language of the person signing the offer.
Plus: what to say when you don’t have the metrics or the impact data from a past project
Access
(The wrong channel.)
How do the best roles actually get filled? Hint: not the public job board.
I’ll show you how to get a clear signal in front of the people who actually decide — before the role is ever posted.
Plus: the exact checklist to run before you send a single message.
Meet Your Coach, Professor and Strategist
Rajeev Subramanian
Founder, Shift UX | Professor, Georgetown University | Author, Repositioned
Rajeev is who senior designers and researchers come to when standard career advice stops working. He teaches the exact move he made himself — a mid-career pivot into UX at 34, through a relationship rather than a credential — and then spent 20 years doing enterprise UX at the level of Freddie Mac and Capital One.
His work is about a single problem: the gap between how good you are and how you’re being read. He built the Shift Market Fit Method to close it — market fit, positioning, and access, pointed at how a person gets seen instead of a product..
Stop rewriting the resume.
Start fixing what the market reads.
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Friday, July 17th @ 1PM EST.
90 minutes. Live. Free.
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