Go to berecruited.com and register as a high school athlete. While doing so, you'll be asked to select your high school from a list of 25,000 of them. You'll notice, though, that you have to type its name, and once done, your dropdown list narrows to show schools in your state, then just those in your area.
You could do something similar with the industry selection...perhaps narrow your industries down to just five or so, then let people type their occupation, displaying possible options via ajax below. I ran a site similar to berecruited, wherein we *needed* the user's high school, but had a real hard time getting people to find it among a huge list. Seems similar to your problem... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45250 ________________________________________________________________ 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
