Dear Hunch,
I am Victor Chupyra with Vitaver & Associates, recruiters based in Boca Raton (Florida), since 1993. I found your resume online and I believe I might have a good job for you.
My Client sent me the description below, and requested I find a Professional to deliver on it.
If you are that person, I want to submit you today.
If this job is not for you, or not at this time, I suggest you still send me your resume for upcoming opportunities that may fit your career goals and credentials more closely at http://www.vitaver.com/submission.aspx . If you know somebody who might be interested, you can still benefit from this opportunity (1).
I will personally work with you through this simple and quick application process, starting right here and now:
Position Code, Title and Location: 2187 - 0VC0 - UI Designer - New York, NY
Start Date: ASAP
Additional Information: Below is all the information I have from the Client. Once I setup your interview with the Client, you will have the chance to ask them directly anything I do not include here.
About the Client:
The Client is a global company headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dulles, Virginia, Mountain View, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle and elsewhere in the U.S.
Description/ Responsibilities:
The Client is looking for User Interface Designers to join their New York and Virginia teams. If you are the UI star they seek, you will join a team of exceptional designers that strive to create perfection in even the smallest user-interaction, and help create some of the top content websites and applications on Earth.
A little more about you:
You will be a champion of user experience, usability best practices and standards. You will work with product groups to shape product requirements and then transform those requirements into concrete wireframes and functional specifications. You love teams and collaboration. Tight deadlines don't ruffle your feathers. You thrive on working with the industry's top design and development talent, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin. You think great Information Architecture is sexy. You know what Web 2.0 means and are already looking into what comes next.
Skills/Experience required:
Identify, address and solve complex user interface and information design problems by providing multiple viable solutions.
Possess expert diagramming and screen layout skills and creates hi-level concept maps, navigation maps and wire frames.
Collaborate with other disciplines to define the vision and requirements for a product or programming area.
Possess thorough understanding of industry standard applications/technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, Flash and Publishing Systems.
Demonstrate proficiency in industry standard UI software such as Adobe Illustrator, Visio, Omni Graffle, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.
Review competing products and recommend design solutions that differentiate the Company's products from those of competitors.
Work with business owners, producers, technology personnel, designers and researchers on specific projects to create final interface features.
Develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation, and task and objective analyses.
End of Description
If you feel confident with the requirement and comfortable delivering on it, please, send me your reply to all the questions below, and your resume attached to insure the quality of your introduction to this Client. A technical interview with the Client will follow as the last step.
1. Are you a US citizen?_______
2. When will you become available?
3. What is the yearly salary you expect? $ _______ per year on W2 (Fulltime Employee). Benefits and bonuses are extra and you will discuss them directly with the Client.
4. Very important: I designed this format save time and errors. Please complete the following Skill Matrix, answering each and every question with: A) number of years of your personal experience with the skill, B) your skill level on a scale from 1 to 5 (highest), and C) the last time you applied it. Please be consistent with your resume.
I.e.: Experience 4 years - Skill level 5 - Last Applied January 07
1. User interface and information design experience: ______years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
2. HTML experience: ______years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
3. Adobe Illustrator/Flash/Photoshop experience: ______years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
4. CSS: ______years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
5. AJAX: ______years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
6: Visio: _____ years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
7. InDesign: _____ years; Skill level ____Last applied: _______
8. What degree do you have?
* Please attach your resume as a Word document
I will handle your information in strict confidentiality and only to obtain the job you seek.
As a Recruiter, I chose my clients and requirements with you in mind. I am equally aware that you also get to choose a recruiter to find your next career move. I will work hard and dedicate my training and experience to earn your trust, and make you feel comfortable working with me in this job, while you enrich your credentials and build your career.
If you received a similar invitation or phone call to apply through another recruiter, I encourage you to consider that we have very good chances at landing you the job.
Our low overhead and nimble structure (resulting from over a decade and a half of improving our own processes), determine a lower cost for the Client, speedy and straight process, and high rate of placements.
I hope to hear from you today through your complete response and resume. My mission is to get you the job you want.
Regards,
Victor Chupyra
Staff Recruiter
Vitaver & Associates, Inc.
2385 Executive Center Drive # 100
Boca Raton, FL 33431
victor@vitaver.com
Direct Voice Line: (954) 376-3317
Direct Fax Line: 866 259 2735
www.Vitaver.com
PS: This is a real opportunity with my Client; I am not wasting your time or mine.
(1) Referral Fee: please give this email to that person/s and copy me. If he/she replies to me thanks to your participation and I hire he/her, you will accomplish two things: find a good job for someone and get a referral fee directly from V&A, depending on the wage.