Talent
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- BaskerviIle0
I hate word talent in almost all senses.
Referring to a person as the 'talent' is just awful.The word itself always feels like a talent is just something you were born with, like a gift. When in reality there is no such thing as talent, just hard work. No one was ever born good at something, they've worked at it. Using the word talent belittles the hard work, study, motivation someone's had to become skilled at something
- But some people never get good at something, no matter how much effort they put in.i_monk
- I disagree completely. People ARE in fact born with talents, just like they are born with the opposite.monospaced
- Some people are natural renderers, some can't draw for shit. Some can carry a perfect tune, some can't sing for shit.monospaced
- animatedgif0
"talent"
"linkedIn"
"Facebook"
hahaha Think I've found your problem
- canoe0
CCS, I just received the email.
- d_rek0
@canoe
I think CCS or AIGA Detroit is having a portfolio/career day soonish. You could probably check that out as well.
- blaw0
We're in the same boat—multiple positions available, searching for months trying to find the right people, but to no avail.
Who wants to move to Pennsylvania?
- ... no comment ...monospaced
- It's a shame you feel like that. PA is a beautiful place to live.blaw
- I agree, it's a great place. I can comment on that great State and its historical significance all day.monospaced
- troll much mono?canoe
- ... no comment.monospaced
- Ah, yes... once again, Ben is forced into "playing a role" online.blaw
- I said "no comment" dude.monospaced
- canoe0
For the Jr Design position - newsletters, bulletins, retail banners, web banners, 1-3 day projects.Content Generation postion - pretty heavy until the work is done, a good 20-30 hours a week I would think.
Developer - 20-40 hours a week at times.
Mixed bag of new work and updates, we want to start adding rich snippets to the sites, make sure the SEOmoz errors are fixed, revamp landing pages, integrate smarter code where necessary, troubleshoot shit, new builds using LAMP
- vaxorcist0
Can you list anything more specific? i.e. long-term, short-term? high-intensity many-calls-per-day or low-intensity 2 calls per week? new project? maintain existing stuff? add-on to pre-existing stuff? I ask more from a developer perspective than a designer one....
- canoe0
India is the world now, eh?
- Looking for freelance work myself. Im not in india. Here is my portfolio - claytoneedham.com/po...Claymantis
- claytoneedham.com/po...Claymantis
- try againmonospaced
- thanks I'll email youcanoe
- cheersClaymantis
- i_monk0
Move to India.
- e-wo0
- canoe0
I prefer if you post your contact information - not you monospaced. All I need is a loose cannon to deal with.
- evinwolverton@gmail...e-wo
- you don't know me, nor am I looking for a freelance gig, you don't need to insult memonospaced
- e-wo0
I emailed you, but returned a delivery error. Where can I reach you?
- canoe0
Everyone must be working!I can't believe nobody on QBN is interested in freelance work.
- it helps when you post what you're looking for and what the freelance work is and who it's formonospaced
- canoe0
vax - interesting.
- bulletfactory0
All I know are no talent cunts.
- d_rek0
If you're trying to recruit for part-time/full-time a headhunter is a great way to go. The other option is to post on more design-centric job boards. ie: krop, be h a nce, dribbble jobs, underconsideration, designjobs.aiga.org
- vaxorcist0
make it clear to people that this will be a good gig, don't use the word "rockstar" and do use words like "respect" and such....
are you looking for FT /freelance,.in-office or work anywhere?
Check people with lots of referrals on stack overflow, etc... there are various communities like local meetups for javascript, Django and Ruby on Rails where you can find cool, smart, but often skeptical people, go to a few meetups and listen before you try to start recruiting, offer to host if you have an office, then you can be a soft-seller and let people pre-visualise where they might work and they might contact you....
- 23kon0
Specialist recruitment is the way to go.
Hiring in the past has been a pain when you have to do it yourself and end up with shed loads of sh*te applications - people not even qualified, people wanting to work from abroad, people chancing their arm to try wangle their way into the job with no prior experience or knowledge of the field.
Recruitment folk ... you give them the spec for the kind of person you want ... then they do the ground work and shortlist folk who are well suited and send you the list.
No f*ckwits ... just suitable applicants.
It does cost, but it is worth it.
- fadein110
I will happily do design / build for you. I am freelance and will quote on a fixed price basis.
Would you like me to send you more info?