[Sigia-l] is it just me, or is it really hard to find IAs right now?

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Donna Maurer:

> Is the longer term work interesting enough to attract people to stay with
> the company.

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, for a seasoned pro, there
would be extremely few companies that would qualify here.

Again, one of the reasons why a senior consultant is hired is the experience
and the cross-pollinated wisdom. You simply cannot grow that in-house.
That's the implicit value that a senior consultant brings to the table.

I solve tough, large-scale strategy/architecture/interaction problems. I've
been doing this for big Wall Street clients for years. But I also take that
experience and direct it towards less esoteric consumer domains. Recently, I
did that for a European cosmetics company to design an interactive makeup
studio in Flash. I know nothing about eyeliners, mascara and such, but I
know a lot about solving complex design/interaction/usability issues.

I would never work full-time for that company (and they would never hire me
as staff), but I solved their problem (which they had been struggling with
for months) in a very short time. Both sides were happy.

There's nothing particular about IA here.This happens in all professions. As
people gain more experience and seniority, they are far less satisfied with
the challenges of a single domain, single product, single company. It's also
professionally inadvisable to not expose yourself to different companies,
environments, domains, processes, methodologies, managers, etc.

Ziya
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