tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16602742.post2524986840547144988..comments2022-04-30T07:02:00.266-04:00Comments on Schizohedron — Multifaceted, yet smoooooth: WSJ Article on Getting Jobs Without a 100% Skill MatchSchizohedronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516295543123338514noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16602742.post-43962471405688862962007-05-26T18:56:00.000-04:002007-05-26T18:56:00.000-04:00I appreciate the additional anecdote and ear-bendi...I appreciate the additional anecdote and ear-bending. Just to give myself a bit more of an advantage, and to fill in the gaps in my proficiency, I did in fact register for the Photoshop course @ SVA. Above and beyond meeting the requirements of more employers, I find myself struggling to do certain things in Photoshop that I'm sure a bit of focused study and demonstration can make plainer. I got by more or less teaching myself InDesign and Quark, but here, I just need to be in a classroom.Schizohedronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15516295543123338514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16602742.post-9048112315160669302007-05-23T00:25:00.000-04:002007-05-23T00:25:00.000-04:00I've already bent your ear plenty on this topic, b...I've already bent your ear plenty on this topic, but I just want to share another piece of supporting evidence: as I was on the way out of my job at Sweatshop Associates, Inc., a friend's husband e-mailed to say he was leaving his pleasant job in the publishing branch of a major test prep company.<BR/><BR/>I passed this information along to one of my colleagues, and she immediately applied for the position, even though she'd only worked in Quark, and even though the test prep publisher had recently switched all its production to InDesign.<BR/><BR/>Because of her solid experience, my friend got an interview, and they liked her and sent her home with a layout test. Months before, I'd lent her some InDesign training disks I'd picked up at the ID User Group, so she was a bit familiar with the program, and she did call me once when she got stuck (which I feel is a perfectly legal thing to do, as the designers I know ask each other for tech support all the time; in the real world, most tests are open-book). She did well enough to get the job, and she's been there for almost a year now.<BR/><BR/>Would it have been easier for her if she'd known InDesign going into the interview? Probably. But she's smart and very motivated, so a bit of a learning curve doesn't make a difference.</lecture>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com