[Sigia-l] What happened to the good IAs

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

The question of "what level of experience makes an IA/UX person
senior" seems to be a recurrent theme on this list in the past year or
so. I empathize with hiring managers who are having to make this call
on a daily basis without a clear basis for decision making.

At the same time, I'd like to point out that many of these hiring
managers started their UX careers in the late 90's, when all you
really needed to call yourself a Web/design professional was a pulse.

It seems a bit hypocritical to me that some of them now want to deny
recent entrants to the field the kind of rapid career progression they
had enjoyed themselves.

Dmitry

On 6/20/07, Giovanni Fortezza <giovanni at fortezza.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been on the list for a while and follow conversations as much as I
> can and was wondering whether anyone else is currently having these
> problems.
>
> In the New York market there is a shortage of Junior IAs and IAs but there
> are plenty of Senior IAs. Which would suggest that there are no IAs entering
> the workforce, however that doesn't seem to be the case. The majority of the
> senior IAs I am interviewing are at best Junior and the rest are certainly
> not senior.
>
> That raises the issue that have seen on this list in the past, should there
> be some kind of certification or a certain number of years/projects or both
> that an IA should have under their belt in order to move up a level?
>
> I understand the issues around it i.e. who gets to decide what the criteria
> is, who will enforce it and so on. But I feel that as professionals whose
> primary objective is the development of a great experience we need to do
> this. I have some more ideas as to how to pull this off but I was curious as
> to what the rest of the community feels.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Giovanni Fortezza
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