Tips from a Recruiter
Hear some interview and resume tips from Joanne Weaver, an industry recruiter who can speak to what works and what doesn't.
Joanne is the President of The Joanne Weaver Group, one of NYC’s first-ever UX/UI/Product Design recruitment firms, which she founded 10 years ago. The firm’s guiding principle is that good user-centered design is a kindness to our fellow human beings - it makes life easier and more beautiful.
Similarly, Joanne puts good UX into practice in the very way she recruits: her guiding philosophy is to only work with the best of the best, have laser-like focus, provide a high degree of customization and attention to detail, and most importantly, infuse it all with a sense of shared purpose and humor.
She caught the digital bug during its early days, in 1999, at San Francisco dotcom start-up Scient, where she fell in love with the industry and its entrepreneurial spirit. She later made New York City her home, and after years of agency recruiting top digital talent for boutique design firms and F500 clients, she worked in-house at Razorfish as their national UX talent sourcer. There, she became integrated into the UX community as a guide, connector, and a friendly presence to all. The Joanne Weaver Group is co-headed up by Recruiting Manager Rebecca Levi, and their client base includes the hottest, late-stage startups cooking, as well as high-end global design firms; all across many different industries.
Joanne participates in several professional organizations, including UxPA, IxDA, and GA, and she has written as a guest blogger and been featured in video interview series focusing on UX recruitment. She has a degree in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley, is a Chi Omega Sorority alumna (and was chapter president for a year), and avidly played competitive sports from an early age.
She is an unwavering supporter of people following all their dreams in life, and she walks the walk herself. Music is a long-standing passion in her life, and she has 4 music videos, for her 2 full-length albums Interstellar Songbook I + II, which are spacey sci-fi triphop versions of old classic jazz songs (think: Bladerunner meets Cole Porter). She had a 1.5-year long Friday night residency at The Flatiron Room, and has also performed at The McKittrick Hotel (home of “Sleep No More”), The Wooly, Toshi’s Living Room, Theatre 80, Tribeca Rooftop, and the Dominican Republic, among other places, and is planning a musical tour to Thailand in early 2018. She also enjoys being “Auntie Jojo” to her two nephews in Memphis, juicing vegetables (because she’s not a great cook but still likes the health buzz), throwing “no cellphone parties,” and playing dress-up when noone (or everyone) is looking.