[IxDA Discuss] Career: Deep vs Broad Experience

[Ari Feldman]

i agree, i think it's best to have a balance between the two. having a
breadth of experience working on a range of projects is very attractive
while having depth or expertise on a particular aspect or area of a
discipline is also appealing.

Ari

On 3/5/07, Robert Hoekman, Jr. <rhoekmanjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It will come from you going both broad
> > and deep and being  forceful and strategic at business.
>
> I agree that both depth and breadth makes for an appealing candidate,
> but at the same time, most employers only hire you to do *one* thing
> really well. Because of this, I think over the span of your career,
> it's most rewarding and interesting to go deep on a particular aspect
> of the profession only for a while (say, withing one position in one
> company), then move to another and another.
>
> When you start getting comfortable, it's time to reinvent yourself. :)
>
> -r-
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