Wanted: a web designer to replace my IT staff

By Heri Jun 13th 2007 in Design

I came across a job ad today by Tek Systems, with the title ‘web designer job’, and I have no idea how this company is going to find their dream candidate. Apart from being good at html/Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver, they want the web designer to:

have skills in web marketing
have skills in video and in Director
have skills in 3D animation
know php/java/asp/mysql
a windows/linux sysadmin
bilingual, french and english
know web standards but be also proficient in Flash

I thought a web designer’s job was to create the design of a website, which is already a demanding job. It would be great if there was even a web designer in Montreal who is capable of producing good designs for web apps à la flickr or basecamp.

Now, I would dismiss this job ad as soon as I opened the page, but Tek Systems is actually an IT company who think they are a “high-caliber”, “talented” and “expert” company.

Tek Systems, please get back on earth.

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Comments

Anonymous June 13, 2007

If you think that a Web Designers job is only to design web sites, then you are a fool. Obviously a Web Designer needs a range of skills, including have some experience with all of these. They are really asking for someone with experience, because I can’t imagine that their exists a Web Designer who has only been a WD for 10 years, you would have had a few different jobs. They probably should have asked for a Web Developer.

Of course having to know French is the real kicker. Merde!

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Daniel June 13, 2007

He could have thrown in a demand for more than 3 years experience with Rails :)

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Heri June 13, 2007

i think being fluent both in english and in french is the easiest of the lot.

and what you dont understand is if you ask for all those skills, you will find yourself with a jack-of-all -trades – but also someone who can’t execute something to the end.

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Handyverträge January 24, 2011

It’s hard to search out educated folks on this topic, but you sound like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks

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