Wall Street Journal: Flash Back: Demand Up in Engineering Specialty.
”At the same time, the supply of such engineers remains low. It is particularly difficult to find Flash engineers who have both an artistic and computer-science background, say executives. While there are many Flash designers with experience in artistic elements, few are trained in areas such as power and battery management, they note.” Sounds like a great big, fat opportunity to me.
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The emphasis I saw here was a familiar one to me ... crossing programming skill with creative/aesthetic skill. The dichotomy is a difficult one to span - and this is my market nearly exactly. It’s genuinely hard do to both left-brain and right-brain functions at the same time.
For one of my recent projects, I can’t get off on dealing with Actionscript 3 video streaming code, as much as I can crafting the colors, fonts and overall use of real estate on a website layout - yet I’m tasked with doing both.
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I have never heard of anyone offering that kind of training. It sounds to me like more spoiled business leaders too lazy to even think about on-the-job training for otherwise qualified applicants.
Hire good people. The particular technologies come and go, but brains and talent will quickly lead to expertise in any new technology that arises.