These new Internet job boards have made finding really interesting jobs and the companies that are interested in hiring creative people with journalism skills a lot easier.
Every week I read through hundreds of job descriptions using a custom-aggregated RSS feed I have cultivated from a number of sources. The jobs that pop up are amazing.
Want to be the Director of publications for Carnegie Hall, Work on interaction design for Apple, Develop new products in Silicon Valley, or be the Managing Editor at the University of California, Berkeley?
With headlines (like these in today’s I Want Media RSS news feed) you too may want to build your own jobs feed - or subscribe to mine.
- 900 editorial jobs lost since April
- Analyst: Tribune may be worth as little as $4 to $5 a share if the Zell deal collapses
A harsh reality check but the good news is that there are hundreds of new jobs every week that require expertise in visual editing, new product design, new media and digital journalism.
Reading these job descriptions you can begin to see where skills crossover, but that’s just the start.
I like to see where media companies are heading in their strategic direction. In corporate America, a manager can only get the greenlight to post jobs that have a strategic plan behind them. Often the language for that new direction is copied verbatim into the pitch for the job.
Like this one from a company called, Lab49.
Building nifty creative websites is fine, but we’re reaching far beyond; building large-scale, multi-threaded applications for use in the world’s toughest technology environments. And we’re defining a new visual language for high-throughput, multi-dimensional data exploration. A talent for graphic design or information graphics is a major plus.
Read Edward Tufte? Stephen Few? We want you.
Reading this reinforces the evidence I have been gathering that the media development world is moving more towards frameworks and away from Flash container solutions. Why else would they be hiring Flash designers to NOT use Flash?
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Hey Robb. Daniel Chait here, co-founder from that company called Lab49. Glad to see you noticed our job ad (by the way it was posted at the job board over at 37signals.com).
I thought you asked a great question, why would we “hire Flash designers to NOT use Flash”? As it happens, Lab49 has started a practice building WPF applications, which as you probably know, is a relatively new technology. Therefore the pool of people who know it already day 1 is quite small. So naturally, we are interested in broadening our aim a bit, to find the people most likely to be skilled, qualified, and motivated to join our team and learn WPF.
In my estimation, C# developers who have been doing Windows Forms, and Flash Developers who have been building interactive UI’s and are looking for something newer, a bit more technically inclined, and focused on our industry (financial services), make the most logical sense.
So, that’s why we’re appealing to Flash developerrs and asking them NOT to do Flash.