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How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a UX Researcher
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a stay-at-home parent leveraged a career gap to transition into UX research. They focus on the story of Maria Chen, who after five years out of the workforce, completed a part-time UX research certificate through Google's Career Certificates program while volunteering as a user testing coordinator for a local nonprofit. Maria's approach—framing her gap as a period of deep user empathy development—helped her land a junior UX researcher role at a mid-sized health tech company. Lucas breaks down how she…
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