Andrei, I understand your problem, but hiring junior staff without first putting in protections for them is a huge waste of time.
I realize that small orgs like yours have limited resources, but maybe that just means, stick w/ sr. staff. the "cold water" approach is just "mean" IMHO and as human centered empathetic people, you'd think we would want to treat all aspects of our human capital with the same respect we give to our end-users, no? I don't mean to really pick on Andrei here. Way! too many organizations big and small do not have good career path planning and follow the "cold water" model. It just leads to failure time and time again, and actually becomes a drain on management resources in other ways, as well as direct out-of-pocket expenses due to overly high attrition rates. The Ad World is famous for Jr. level burnout in the creative space. What can orgs like Andrei's do to get the human capital they need and get the high pressure jobs done that they are competing for? I know a lot of orgs that REFUSE to take on the pressure of their clients. What they are doing is taking the pressure off their own internal corps and putting it outside. They aren't willing to feel the pain themselves, so they hire it out. In a sense, Andrei, you are just being colonized by "the man" when you take on projects like those. Not ALL projects are at this high pace, and not all organizations are putting "time to market" first. *See Alan Cooper's keynote for more*. -- dave -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26170 ________________________________________________________________ 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
