Needle in a haystack: the UX designer on a job board
Are you looking to hire a qualified User Experience designer? Are you a UX designer looking for work? As it relates to UX, matching up designers and employers is a challenge. Why? It’s our fault – we can’t agree what to call our profession. If you’re a certified Project Manager, all you have to do is type that into Monster and voila – 10 gazillion job posts. A UX job could be listed as user interface designer, interaction design designer, ergonomics specialist, information architect, user experience professional, MMI designer, cognitive ergonomist, human factors practionner, user advocate, user-centered designer, and on and on… We’re just scattered and lost on Monster and we can’t blame it on Human Resource conventions.
Toronto blogger and trouble-maker David Crow has been working toward a solution for years. He posts UX-related jobs on his site. It’s become quite popular. Some of the latest open positions include: e-product coordinator, GUI specialist, analyst – user experience, XHTML/UX designer, usability specialist, customer experience designer, human factors engineer specialist, internet web content analyst, digital media strategist…. see what I mean – a bunch of different titles!
Thanks David for maintaining this list!
Tags: David-Crow, Monster, UX-jobs
Hi Mitch,
Thansk, the job board is entirely for the benefit of the community. When I moved back to Canada, I felt that a lot of information has hidden. Hidden behind closed doors, hidden behind needing to pay a membership fee, hidden behind people that didn’t really want to hire talented people.
I hope that by publishing jobs we make it easier for UX practitioners to find great work. And for employers to find the world-class talent I know is lurking in Canada. If you have a user experience, human factors, cognitive ergonomics, man-machine interface, human-computer interaction, product management, or other related posting for a job based in Canada, drop me a note, and I’ll try to post it.
Cheers,
David
David’s list is a great repository. All of the jobs are different – but having a UX tag might make it easier to search.
Keep on, David!!!
I’ve been tagging the user experience jobs, “ux+jobs”, there are a couple of other tags including “dev+jobs”, “marketing+jobs”, and “pm+jobs”.
Once an executive of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, I suffered the political turmoil of adding “ergonomics” to the society name…. (against!!) I think David’s idea of tagging UX is perfect! Can someone send a memo to the International Human Resources Job Category Society????