They are everywhere waiting to prick something

Whoah, that’s one metaphor that’s just been stretched a little too far.

I have never “just surfed” the web, and I don’t use it to play games; to me, a computer is an appliance.

I use my “appliance” to pay bills, book airline tickets and rental cars, communicate with friends and family, shop for items that are either hard to find or I can’t be bothered shopping for in person, and, of course, earn a living (I am a web developer by trade, so I also use my computer as a research tool).

Atg

It’s about like trying to find a needle in a haystack

Just to be clear, we’re not specifically looking for a generalist — if someone came to us with strong server-side skills but who was rusty on the client-side and whose graphic design skills were awful, they might still be a good candidate. Of course, the role requires you to be a quick learner and to be flexible, so we’d expect that they’d be able to get their head around the relevant client-side technologies pretty quickly. We’ve had a good strike rate filling this role in the past, and have a solid team in place that the successful candidate will be joining.

It’s also worth noting that while finding someone local is preferable, we’re certainly open to hiring someone from other parts of Australia or overseas, if it was the right person and they were prepared to move to Melbourne. We’ve made several interstate hires, and a couple of international hires, to date.

where is the subject where a person is pasionate about CONTENT? … the content needs to be there or they will hit the back button

That’s a pretty broad topic to be passionate about. I agree, content is king, and quality writing always stands out (it was this issue of ALA that inspired the approach I took in this blog post, in fact). But being able to make your content findable and being able to write well are two very different skill sets.

That said, the categories I’ve listed above are based on my opinion only. You might believe there are other categories of people who are passionate about the Web (The Creative comes to mind, for instance, but I decided to keep the list short).

John

These things are much like a ROI where values can be manipulated and circumstances can prove differing results.

So true, just taking the MBTI can throw off the results - did mine anyway. The INTJ’s are just as rare as INTP’s. Good luck finding that needle.