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I can do Photoshop. I'm sure I could learn the rest as I go.

Really, how hard could it be?

Edited, May 27th 2011 12:00am by Eske

My SO would probably love to do it, but I don't think she has much of a portfolio per se at this point. She would probably do it for dirt cheap though, in light of that.

I made a GeoCities page once.

It might have been AngelFire. Doesn't that matter?

24 months til I finish my MIT :/ Oh well, if you guys are hiring again in 2013, I'll have the shiny degree under my belt by then.

I do a mean facebook poke.

I dunno, but I think the "Passion for video games and/or World of Warcraft" portion is hilarious. Just proves that World of Warcraft may not actually be a video game. It's really a word processor!

I'd totally apply if I had the time and/or any interest in WoW whatsoever, but I don't :(

You don't actually hire many people, do you?

How are you gonna find a good graphic artist/designer who can do the programming stuff? That sounds like it's going to be a potential *****. Shouldn't the, you know, designing parts be the big plusses?

Edited, May 27th 2011 3:50pm by Sweetums

Hire personally? No. If you mean, "have you sorted, prioritized, and rejected stacks of resumes for a position and have you conducted interviews of potential new-hires?". Then the answer is yes. And guess what, if some skill is "required" for a position, then anyone who doesn't have that skill doesn't get hired. Baring the rare case where there isn't a single applicant with the skill set required, I suppose.

Sounds like the perfect perl programmer.

And your experience hiring people in computer related fields is...? I answered the question, so that seems only fair.


You're correct, to a point. If we're looking for a general fit for a position, we'll usually take any of a range of skills as long as we think the person can fill into the position as needed. But that's more of the "we need another head count to help handle the workload a group of people are doing which involve a wide range of specific skill sets". But if the job you're hiring for is specific enough to bother writing down a set of "required" skills, you're pretty much going to use that as a minimum.

Put another way, if 5 people with all of those required skills apply and 50 others apply who don't have them, which 5 candidates will get interviews? As I said, if you somehow get zero candidates who have the required skills *then* you may start looking elsewhere and at candidates who aren't perfect matches. Or, depending on how necessary those skills are, you wont. Or, you'll look at the required skills and trim them a bit to see if you can find matches to the new "required" list.


I just assume that if someone actually writes that some skill is required for a job, that the word "required" actually has some meaning. I suppose it doesn't hurt to toss a resume their way if you want the job and are close, but you have to go in understanding that your odds of even getting through the first round of resume screenings are going to be small. Doubly so in todays market where there are a ton of people looking for work. I remember being pretty selective back in the late 90s and early 2000s. And that was when so many companies were hiring folks with bare minimum skills because they desperately needed any warm body who could do anything useful on a computer. Right now, it's a hirer's market.

Yes, that's fair. And the answer is none.


However, in discussing anything with you, I don't have to have any experience in the specific field, as you've clearly assumed what you know in one field automatically applies to all others whenever it suits you, so I'll do the same. Feel free to consider my opinion invalid if you'd like, but remember why everyone considers yours invalid when you do the same.