Comments on: What can you learn from job postings? http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2007/08/what-can-you-learn-from-job-postings/ International Media Consultant Thu, 17 May 2012 09:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Daniel Chait http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2007/08/what-can-you-learn-from-job-postings/#comment-9652 Daniel Chait Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:37:31 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2007/newspaper/design/08/what-can-you-learn-from-job-postings/#comment-9652 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 <a href="http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/1977" rel="nofollow">at 37signals.com</a>). 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. 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.

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