It's been my experience that in these cases, HR is often to blame. There are very few recruiters who understand what you're actually in need of so they work from a skills and background checklist and if a resume doesn't use the same set of magic words that their list does, you lose someone who might actually be a perfect candidate. I know that on occasion, I've had hiring managers submit my resume for a position and *still* not made it through the screening process.
Good luck. Katie At 2:40 PM -0500 2/20/08, W Evans wrote: >And I would love to blame the quality of the job posting sites. There search >engines are terrible. > >Just now, I search in Washington DC.... > >Information Architect (86 results - only 3 were for IA) > >Interaction Designer (41 results, only 1 for IxD) > >Interface Designer (10 results, only one for ID) > >Some of the things that come back in results are amazing. Search for IA and >get senior java architect as a high ranked result? > > > > >On Feb 20, 2008 2:26 PM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrei, >> >> I think you are looking at a number of different factors that are >> causing this. From my point of view, I would love to move not only to >> the Bay area, but NY or Boston where there are tons of openings. >> However, the cost of living there is so outrageously expensive, it >> doesn't pay for me to relocate (I've got a house with a reasonable >> mortgage, as well as a family to consider). It might be that many of >> the more experienced designers (like myself) see the same issues. I >> would take a huge loss of quality of life if I went. >> >> Just my 2 cents. >> >> David >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Just a quick question: Where are all the interface and software >> > designers in Silicon Valley? Has everyone just packed up and left or >> > what? I see more job listings, postings and calls for resumes and yet >> > there seem to be even fewer people to fill the jobs than ever before. >> > I used to have trouble hiring at Adobe back in the late 1990s mostly >> > due to the high experience and training requirements needed to work >> > on software at that level, but that was before there was an influx of >> > people and talent into software related products, especially from the >> > web. And yet, now it seems that there's an even bigger gap in the >> > designer to available job ratio than every before. Everyone I know is >> > having trouble filling hiring requirements. >> > >> > Is it that the job requirements needed to get hired are too high? Not >> > enough trained designers? Or is it something only happening in >> > Silicon Valley? Browse the job listings and postings everywhere from >> > companies in Silicon Valley and it seems we have a distinct lack of >> > designers ready to fill all the openings. >> > >> > Opinions? >> > >> > -- >> > Andrei Herasimchuk >> > >> > Principal, Involution Studios >> > innovating the digital world >> > >> > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > c. +1 408 306 6422 >> > >> > >> > ________________________________________________________________ >> > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> "Art provokes thinking, design solves problems" >> >> w: http://www.davidshaw.info >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > > > >-- >~ will > >"No matter how beautiful, >no matter how cool your interface, >it would be better if there were less of it." >Alan Cooper >- >"Where you innovate, how you innovate, >and what you innovate are design problems" >------------------------------------------------------- >will evans >user experience architect >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >------------------------------------------------------- >________________________________________________________________ >Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help -- ---------------- Katie Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
