[IxDA Discuss] about this list (not in FAQ)

[David (Heller) Malouf]

If the question is, why aren't more northern/central European IxD jobs not
posted on this list I could answer this one way. If the question is why
arne't there as many IxD jobs there that's a completely different answer.

I'll answer the latter first. Some of these are redundant to what people
have already said.
Those areas do not offer the same size market as the US does. Even in the US
the markets are very bifurcated. Maybe from your perspective a job in NY is
the same as a job in CA but from ours it is very different and there are
3x's as many jobs for IxD in CA than in NY (as an example).

The other answer is probably as was stated in "title hiding". The titles
just don't match up. In the US we have been doing well to reduce the number
of titles but still struggle even behind titles as undesign like as business
analyst. The problem persists though. But even without that UX, UI, IA, etc.
are commonly used here to mean IxD or include IxD as a role in the job
description.


On the "list" side. We do not get a lot of European (non-Anglo) job openings
on this list. This could be about language, or density of the community on
the list. Though we have a very rich community in Sweden and participants
from almost every country in Europe, being an "English" language list
probably does limit our ability to have job postings across multiple
language markets.

We have on the resource library a list of places to look for job postings.
It would be nice if someone added to that resource international and
multi-lingual places for people to look for and post to for jobs.

We don't feel any strong need to be the primary resource for job posting, we
just want to make sure that those who want to find jobs/recruits are able to
find the right ones.

-- Dave