Getting older, having babies, networking and finding jobs through informal channels and friends rather than formal channels, and staying employed as a consultant as a job that I like with people I like that affords me the flexibility that I need to avoid a long commute and spend more time with my daughter.
I'm constantly getting emails from recruiters and for the most part I ignore them. Most jobs just don't offer the flexibility, pay and commute that I'd want in order to change jobs. ----- Original Message ---- From: Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IxDA Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:06:01 AM Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers? 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
