Hyeunju โ€œEmmaโ€ Park

Alumna

Country
South Korea
Course
User Experience Design MSc
Study area
Design

The course in ย้ถนึฑฒฅ has enabled me to progress and I am currently working as a senior UX designer in Singapore.

Hyeunju โ€œEmmaโ€ Park

์ €์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์ฝ”์Šค ๋งˆ์น˜์ž ๋งˆ์ž ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋น„์ž ์„œํฌํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ด์ƒ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
์ด ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ, ์ฝ”์Šค๋™์•ˆ์— ํ‹ˆํ‹ˆํžˆ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค, ์ด๋ ฅ์„œ ๋“ฑ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด๋’€์–ด์š”. ํŠนํžˆ ๋งํฌ๋“œ์ธ ํ”„๋กœํŒŒ์ผ์„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ตœ์‹ ๋‚ด์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ํ•ด๋’€์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ฉด ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก์š”. ํ•™๊ต ๋‚ด์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ทจ์—…์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๋„์›€๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”. ์•„๋งˆ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด์„œ ์ผ๊นŒ์š”, ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ง€์› ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์„œ ์žก ์˜คํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
์ œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žก ์˜คํผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ด์œ ๋Š”, ์ฒซ์งธ, ์‹ค๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๋‘˜์งธ, ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค, ์…‹์งธ, ๋””์ž์ธ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ์™€ ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ์˜ ์ด์œ ๋Š”, ์ œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์ค‘ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค์— ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋Š” ์ฝ”์Šค์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์› ๋˜ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ง€์‹์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ ค ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ 1๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์ผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Hi, my name is Emma from Korea. I have graduated from ย้ถนึฑฒฅ University in 2019 and studied User Experience Design in Master.

Before studying a Master at the university, I had 2 years of practical experience in UX design at a Global IT company. As I did not have any academic background in UX, I decided to pursue a MA degree to enrich my professional career. During my time in ย้ถนึฑฒฅ University, I was able to make a lot of good friends and upgrade my skill sets. It was a year course, but the curriculum was so efficiently structured so that I was able to achieve not only theoretical knowledge but also practical experience working with real companies.

My goal was getting a job just after my course finished. However, as a foreigner, non-native English speaker, I knew that it was going to be difficult to get a decent job supporting a work visa unless you are outstanding than others. To tackle this reality, I always worked on updating my portfolio during the course and kept preparing my resume and CV so that I could apply for a job whenever the chance came. Also, I kept my LinkedIn up to date as well. (I also looked for help at the university job centre)
Maybe because of my effort, I received a recruiting message via LinkedIn from an Ecommerce company in Singapore. And I was able to get a job offer in the end.

I think the reason I got a job offer from them was: (1) my practical experience before the course (2) portfolio, and (3) Design test result. For points 2 and 3, I had a project in my portfolio related to Ecommerce and I applied what I learnt from the courses to show my professionalism and knowledge I have.

I have been currently working as a senior UX designer at the same company, Shopee, in Singapore.