The other area where I will disagree w/ Dan (as I agree w/ Christine and Pauric on the first point) is that anyone can get a job right now. I disagree w/ this. While companies are hungry right now, part of the reason we feel so drought stricken (I know I'm looking) is b/c we will not give in on quality of candidates. This is what happened in the 90s and most of us learned our lesson that "warm body" as a qualification doesn't cut it any longer if we want to be taken seriously and really build credibility within a wider organization.
if you are doing "warm body" hiring, I suggest you might be doing a disservice to yourself and to your organization. Again, "it depends" and mileage will vary. As to a better piece of advice, I suggest you just do it. Take your portfolio and make it a showcase for your abilities and talents. Make it your project that you use to teach yourself everything you need to know. The information is all out there for free of charge thanks to great sites like slideshare.net where almost every major guru puts all their slides for the world to see, even for some pretty expensive classes. Also, the investment of $2500 or so for a UXWeek, Cooper Practicum, User Experience Week, UI Conf cannot be better spent. All of these while seemingly expensive do one thing really well. They take away the overwhelming feeling that we all get whenever we start something from scratch. For example, an opportunity to take a 3-day course with Tog is something that any Jr. designer should definitely consider, especially if they are transitioning from one UX discipline into IxD. Dan's course would be an equally good idea as well as the Cooper Practicum. Kim Goodwin is doing a 1-day IxD workshop at UI12 next month. That Luke's workshop (I don't know if they are competing or not) alone make that 5 day event worth the money, IMHO. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the improved ixda.org http://beta.ixda.org/discuss?post=21042 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
