I have been on this list for years and have seen all the job postings and
have posted some myself. I am looking to hire 5 Flex 2.0 and 3 flash
developers. I have tried posting on dice and monster and have yet to get
resumes that come close to the qualifications that I need. So I have to
ask
where are people finding flash and flex guru's? If you are a flash or
flex
guru please email me your resume, we pay well!
I live in another world, but I can say the same about our (Brazilian) market
aswell. There's an absurd lack of competent people, and trying to find
someone with the level you expect and that you can trust is an exercise in
frustration. I have to refuse almost daily, and inevitably I have to repeat
the same choir over and over again - "No, I can't do your specific job but
thanks, and no, I don't know anyone who could that I can point you at, I'm
sorry, that's the truth". I get baffled replies at best; people usually
think I'm bullsh*tting them.
Unfortunatelly it seems much of this is due to the nature and the history of
Flash. Sure, there's a lot of people working with Flex and Flash from all
the walks of the design/IT life, but differently from other technologies
like, say, Java, the technology isn't seen as being integral part of a
dedicated field. Take as an example the school (university) I go to: we have
design/interface design/multimedia bachelor degrees, as well as computer
science degrees. On the computer science courses, they learn C, C++, Python,
Java, and stuff like that; on the other design courses, they learn basic
Flash (and I mean, *really* basic flash).
Sure, I'm not the one to trust blindly in school degrees (I've worked for 12
years and never had a degree) and I sure hope someone will come out of
graduation with 100 design patterns memorized. But the fact that no
university course around here sees Flash as a 'serious' programming field
speaks a lot when you see the absense of good professionals on the market.
You usually have a lot of 'hacks' that come from, say, the creative/design
area, and think they're good because they can tween a banner, but it's hard
to someone that go a little further and actually wants to get better at
coding, or people from the 'cold coding' market moving into what's seen as a
designerish tool. Sad but true.
Zeh
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