[Sigia-l] Lack of Opportunities for IA

[Abbe Don]

I have the best source for Bay Area job listings at the junior and 
mid-career level to be the BAYCHI job mailing list. It's put together 
by the Bay Area chapter of SIGCHI. I have also found it a reasonable 
resource when I was in a position to recruit; however, word of mouth 
tended to be the ultimate source of the candidates that I hired. BAYCHI 
membership is $10/year. You can find more info at http://www.baychi.org

One of the best opportunities that I know about for recent graduates at 
either the undergrad or graduate level is corporate internships. Don't 
be put off by the word internship as many of the large corporations pay 
their interns. I was in the master's program at the Interactive 
Telecommunication program at NYU when I did my summer internship at 
Apple Computer and it really launched my career. It's a great learning 
opportunity and unlike stories I've heard about the film and publishing 
business, interns do real work at software companies, not just get 
coffee for people. Check into programs at places like Apple, Hewlett 
Packard, and Microsoft.

Finally, you might find more "birds of a feather" at the ACTLab in the 
Dept. of Radio, Television, and Film at University of Texas. 
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu

Hope this is helpful,
Abbe


On Feb 6, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Peter Merholz wrote:

>
> 2. To address the original questioner -- in the SF Bay Area, there 
> seem to be many opportunities for IA and web-based interaction design. 
> I must admit that I'm not as aware of the issues at the entry-level 
> end, but I hear about many opportunities for senior and director-level 
> information architecture and interaction design.
>