The job market did not slow down for you. Neither should you.
Four hours on July 23 could change the next four years.
In This Issue, we’ll cover:
→ What is actually happening to UX careers right now and why it feels different this time
→ Why most advice is not helping
→ A four-hour working session built for exactly this moment
→ How to get your spot before it fills
Something shifted in the last two years and most people felt it before they could name it.
The applications are going out. The responses are not coming back. Practitioners with real experience, strong portfolios, and genuine skill are sitting with the same quiet panic: what changed and why is the old playbook not working anymore?
It is not your portfolio. It is not your case studies. It is not your years of experience.
It is that the market started asking a different question while most practitioners were still answering the old one.
The question used to be: can you do the work?
The question now is: can you position yourself inside an economy where AI is already part of the process, where roles are being redefined faster than job descriptions can keep up, and where the practitioners getting hired are the ones who know how to communicate their value in a language the new market actually understands?
That is a different question. And most people have not been given the tools to answer it.
Why Most Advice Is Making It Worse
You have read the articles. You have watched the videos. You have updated your LinkedIn headline based on something you saw in a thread and waited to see if it made a difference.
It probably did not. Not because the advice was wrong. Because advice is not practice. Reading about how to reposition yourself is not the same as actually doing it, on your real resume, with real tools, in a room where someone who has hired people through this economy can tell you in real time what is landing and what is not.
The practitioners who are breaking through right now are not the ones who found the right article. They are the ones who did the work. Specifically. Intentionally. With the right people in the room.
That room exists on July 23.
HAPPENING TOMORROW
🟢 Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy
📅 July 23, 2026 · 12 to 4PM
📍 Silver Spring Civic Building, Silver Spring, MD
4 hours. Your real resume. Your real pitch. Your real positioning. Rebuilt in real time using AI tools that are already reshaping how hiring works, led by three founders who have hired, been hired, pivoted, and built through this economy from the inside.
Jake DiBattista · Founder & CEO, Buddy
Evan Katz · Founder & CEO
Yao Adantor · Founder & CEO, UXU
They are not coming to give a talk. They are coming to sit with you and work on the thing that actually matters right now: how you show up to a market that has already moved on and make sure it cannot afford to move on without you.
You will not leave with notes to review later. You will leave with something finished. A sharper read on where your skills belong in this economy. Language that lands in interviews and networking conversations. And one specific next step you chose before you walked out the door.
No jargon. No theory. No slides you forget by Thursday. Just a room full of practitioners who are serious about what comes next, doing the work together.
Spots are limited. This one fills fast and there is no virtual option.
What You Walk Away With
✅ A finished output built during the session
✅ Clarity on where your skills fit right now
✅ Language that lands in interviews and networking
✅ One specific next step chosen before you leave
📚 Resource Corner
→ 10 Best AI Resume Tailoring Tools in 2026 · Which tools actually pass ATS screening and which are noise
→ The 6 Best AI Resume Builders in 2026 · Free and paid options worth exploring before July 23
→ 4 AI Tools Design Job Seekers Need in 2026 · Built specifically for practitioners navigating the AI job market right now
Final Thought
The market is not waiting for you to feel ready. Tommorrow is how you get there.