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NYC Campus
NYC Networking For UX / UI Product Designers
For Product Designers, NYC is a great place to start out and build a career-long network of fellow designers. Here’s our list of the best networking and meetup groups any Product Designer looking to expand their network should take advantage of.
Cybersecurity Engineering
Flatiron School works with Deloitte to find next class of cybersecurity trainees
Flatiron School is pleased to work with Deloitte, a leading professional services organization, to recruit its next class of cybersecurity trainees.
Career Advice
How To Use The 75% Rule In Your Job Search
The 75% rule says "if you can do 75% of the job - apply." You don’t need to have 100% of the skills, traits, and abilities that the job description lists to apply for the role or secure an interview.
Career Advice
The Unfair Advantage of Self-Confidence
For confident people, things come easy - jobs, raises, promotions. According to Chase Hughes, harnessing your internal self-confidence in 5 steps is key to getting ahead.
Career Advice
Using Transferable Skills To Land A Tech Job
If you want to break into tech, transferable skills can help you land a new job, no matter how “unmatched” your skill set might appear to be. A deep dive into your experiences may reveal that you have far sought-after transferable skills than you thought.
UX / UI Product Design
How To Create a Wireframe in Figma
A wireframe is a visual mockup of a web page without all the final details that demonstrate how the content should function on the screen.
Here's a guide to making one, courtesy of Matt Donovan, Design Director at Flatiron School.
Tech Trends
Top 3 Cybersecurity Pain Points in 2022
Cybersecurity is a quick-moving field, with cyber criminals constantly trying to get ahead. With dire consequences should an organization’s security slip, here are the top 3 cybersecurity pain points to be aware of in 2022 and on.