I agree with you about those job postings that require the friggin' moon and back. I raked someone else over the coals for posting a job like that earlier with a crapy pay scale.
I know that blitz has posted on this list recently with a large list of requirements, but honestly, you shouldn't look at that as a show stopper. You should submit your resume, then call them back and force an interview. What can it hurt? You've got nothing to loose, and chances are, if you hit it off personally, there's a MUCH better chance you'll get through the front door and working. My story with blitz was just that: I applied online, they sent me a letter saying "sorry, you're not qualified" and I replied with "Are you sure??". Ivan called me that day, I got my first interview the next day, and had a new job. I didn't let the list of requirements stop me - I targeted them based on their clients and projects and I wasn't going to hear "no". I knew I could do it, and that was that. Now, I will say, they DID ask me to send in nearly every project I ever did and then I ran out of stuff to send ;) So, as a final effort, I sent a screenshot of my old website with a data/timestamp. 7hrs later, I completely rebadged my site and took another snapshot and emailed the new code. Yeah it's crazy, but hell, it cost me 7hrs or work, I got a new site out of it, and the job I wanted. I'm just saying - get creative if you're trying to break into larger agencies. Especially these days. They're all looking, and if you have the right frame of mind, you probably get a great job with tons of experience. Then you *can* start to have a say in when / where you work and for how much. On 9/12/06, Count Schemula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm struggling with this now, albeit at a lower level. I am confident in my skills and my abilities, especially my ability to pick things up quickly. I know I'm above average, but, in interviews, people always want to see something very specific. "Let me see an example of this exact thing in your portfolio." Well, I'm sorry, my portfolio is full of things I did to put food on the table, not to meet the specific demands of some interview I have not been on yet. If they'd look at my portfolio, they'd see than I was able to do a lot of very varied things and one could assume that a lot of it required solid problem solving skills that are very adaptable. Part of the problem is the people who write the job descriptions are still not realistic - expert in Maya, ASP, Java, Final Cut Pro Flash Actionscript and some arcane CRM I've never heard of. I just don't think there are many people who are experts in such diverse things. I can work all of the design software, and am so-so at some code stuff. I can do HTML, CSS, Coldfusion, mySQL. I can hack PHP scripts. I'm never going to learn Java or ASP. Another part of the problem, with corporate stuff anyhow, is being too far removed from the real job. You have to go through a recruiter and then through the corporation and it's like you never really get to the people you'd be working with. I guess design firms and agencies are not like this, but still... Superstars are just few and far between, and since they can write their own ticket, they are seldom seen. I agree with the comment about geography free skill based teams being the way. Get people who are experts in the various skills, and manage them. Can't do Java? No problem, we'll get one of our Java people to do it. -- count_schemula <a href="http://www.thelargeglass.com/flashNo0b/";>files for No0bs</a> _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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