To be fair, skill laundry lists are common in lots of fields. For example in IT, there are some ads with very silly requirements especially when the final salary is taken into account.
Part of this may be for recruiters to get more "bang for their buck", but another part might be a lack of insight into how the field actually works. Consider the number of ads even here asking for "interactive designers" when they want "interaction designers"; or several ads I've come across in my travels asking for X years experience in a particular toolset when the toolset had not existed that long. As a question to this group, did the recruiters that put out these ads seem clued up about IxD/IA/UXD? Or are did they seem more like jumping on the latest bandwagon? Perhaps if we could examine some of these ads ourselves, it might be useful feedback for recruiters (e.g., "No, you shouldn't expect that level of effective skill for someone with less than 5 years experience but you're asking for new graduates"). Comments? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49535 ________________________________________________________________ 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
