[IxDA Discuss] Excellent Portfolios for IxDs(also:do employerscare about portfolios?)

[Mary Austin-Keller]

Another thought - if I'm taking the time to maintain a good portfolio site
(context, story, process as has been discussed), then chances are I'm
actively looking.  However, on another thread about jobs, it appeared many
of us are not actively looking, but more passively looking - "keeping an eye
out", if you will. 

If you require a portfolio just to get in the door, you may be ignoring a
lot of good people that are "happy enough" where they are to not be actively
looking.  

Cheers,
~Mary
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Mary Austin-Keller



On 4/6/07 7:59 AM, "Christopher Fahey" <chris.fahey at behaviordesign.com>
wrote:

>> I can't see that maintaining a "professional
>> website" should be a priority for an interaction
>> designer who is looking for a job. I think that
>> would be a bad advice to give to job seekers.
> 
> It doesn't have to be a *great* website. Any old website will do. A HTML
> 1.0 site with black text and some blue links. A Basecamp account. A
> MySpace page. A livejournal. Anything. Show me that you are an actual
> participant in the fabulous new "Internet Age" and not still living in
> some alternate universe where the web never happened.
> 
> Look, it seems like half of the teenagers in the world have their own
> websites these days. The least I think an employer can expect is for a
> technology professional to have the skills and the initiative of a
> normal untrained teenager.
>  
> You know, the more I think about it the more I agree with PeterMe. I am
> now drawing the line, too: No website, no IA job.