| I'd be wary of such a company. I recently put in a disastrous two months
| with a company (dis)organized in much the same way. I left with them
still
| owing me a month's salary which has still not been paid. They had high
| ideals but lacked the skills and experience needed to get organized and
get
| anything accomplished. Someone needs to take or be given the
responsibility
| to push projects along.
|
| Managing projects and people effectively require specific management
skills
| and personality traits that few technically oriented people acquire.
Their
| interview questions may not have been as carefully crafted as Javlik
| suggested. It's quite possible that they were totally clueless about how
to
| interview prospective employees.
|
| Suz
That was, basically, the only thing that did bother me... not a word about
HTML, the web, or anything, as much as I tried talking about it... they
were more interested as me as a former Graphic Artist/ Desktop Publisher...
they already have, they said, a team of writers, a team of graphic
designers, and from what I gathered from the interview, they need someone
as a glue to piece them together, compose the HTML, and place the
graphics...
Suz, yep, it does seem to be a start up. January 1st, 1993 was their start
up date as an advertising and marketing agency, spun off from The New
England. After I found and devoured an article entitled "Breaking Away" in
Inc. magazine <http://www.inc.com/incmagazine/archives/11950361.html> I
stopped worrying about them being a start-up, and started worrying about
"measuring up", the scapped all that and tried to be myself. ;}
... they do outsource the heavy duty web programming (*whew!* ;} ) ... not
sure who they actually outsource the coding to, but I can find out, and see
if I can wedge the opening futher if I get my foot in the door. ;}
Heh, George. You said that I should get into writing or marketing. ;} First
week I am there, if I cleared the first hurdle, and jump the second hurdle,
and make it to the finish line, is try to figure out who in the company
loves to talk about the marketing biz, and I'll do my damnedest to shut up,
and listen. And buy them the occasional drinks. ;}
It did seem to me that they were more interested in who I was than what I
could do on the first interview... to see if I "matched up" with their
perception of future employees. Hehe! I gathered that the articles I
data-mined to prep me for the interview... they are given as part of their
training manuals. ;}
And you are abso-toot-ley right, Franko... I'm thinking that at the stage
of the game I am at, I'm not gonna push it with salary... or at least not
as hard I push the recruiters knocking at my door... would -not- want to
price myself after a job. Especially where, from what I have seen, they are
just as quirky creative and informally formal that I -wanted-, but couldn't
find two years ago, when I started this eternal job search contracting
shtuff.
-T.J. Maher
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