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- vaxorcist0
I've worked with IA's in previous gigs....
Some IA' were young, smart, and just did IA, purists if you will, they weren't paid that much, and their work was often changed radically down the road... their ideas were sometimes treated like disposable fodder... they were often working on another project when the first one was slowly being corrupted by the politics...
Some experienced IA's who were paid a lot more had the skills to:
1. do great IA, based on central insights into the users, NOT whatever the client wants to "just put on the website"
2. do great presentations, aware of the politics involved
3. sell the client on a warm fuzzy feeling
4. control the process of random ego-driven additions by people who feel the need to add something but don't have much to really add.So, somehow you have to convince them you're in the latter category, and that you're promotable, rather than disposable.