Are you considering moving abroad and getting a design job overseas? 🌏 Watch my community livestream replay with myself and Pedro Marques, who's a Brazilian designer based in the Netherlands and leads the international commerce UX team at Shopify. We chat about finding a job overseas, visas, cultural differences, and a lot more. Enjoy!

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00:00 - Livestream overview
1:37 - Start of livestream
2:38 - Pedro's journey in design
4:24 - How Pedro started working abroad
8:35 - Preparing for the job abroad
10:27 - Learning language and language barriers
13:20 - Language screwups
14:34 - Culture shocks
19:18 - Tips for communicating across cultures
22:37 - Different hiring processes in different cultures
24:09 - Advice for finding jobs overseas (Framing experiences based on the culture)
28:38 - Negotiation for salary, visas
29:53 - Visas and negotiation
32:28 - Researching salaries
36:25 - Salaries across different countries
37:50 - Talking about visas when applying for jobs
43:09 - Moving to a country with or without a visa
44:46 - Covid and remote working
50:22 - Recruitment market in Netherlands
51:50 - Cultural differences in Netherlands application process
54:07 - Take home assignments in Brazil and Netherlands
55:33 - References in Europe
55:55 - Any contracting agencies hiring internationally?
56:25 - Using LinkedIn for jobs
59:24 - Outro

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