I'm presently interviewing candidates for a senior UX/UI job(s), and a related graduate degree is good, but if the candidate doesn't have experience, they're still considered a newbie.
I'd rate education and experience in this order, (this is a generalization from actual interviews with candidates with graduate degrees and without): 10 + yrs experience - who cares about your education, I guess it's a plus and never hurts. 5 + yrs experience and a graduate degree - the degree can really shine and add value. 2 + yrs experience and a graduate degree - the degree is great, definitely can bump a candidate to 5 years work experience. Under 2 yrs experience - degree is good, but experience is better, education is worth 1 yr experience. 0 yrs experience and a degree - really looking to see if candidate is a premadonna, any hint of this and forget it - If they're a team player and hard worker, degree is worth a years worth of experience. And PhD's have routinely been bottom of the wrung candidates, (seriously). We consider a PhD to be a negative, with candidates having consistent issues such as - premadonna, no business sense, no real world sense, poor design skills, poor coding skills, (in a make it happen type of world). -- Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
