RE: How Skilled Are You?

["Giordano, Connie" <Connie -dot- Giordano -at- FMR -dot- COM>]

I guess the problem is that it sounds like a webmaster job or maybe a
network support position, rather than technical writing.  No mention of
developing user documentation, systems doc, help, training, or UI.  Apart
from that, you're right, software TW's these days should have exposure to
RDBMS and web management.

Connie Giordano
"Cat Manager"

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Plato [mailto:intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:49 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: How Skilled Are You?



"Dianne Blake" <write-it -at- home -dot- com> wrote in message news:43608 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
> 
> I found this listing for a technial writer on a Job Fair web URL.  This
> is the kind of listing that makes me crazy as a technical writer.  

Apart from being poorly written, this ad seems fine to me. They're asking
for
somebody with a 2 year degree, 6 months experience, and exposure to web
technologies and Oracle databases. I highly doubt they expect somebody to be
an
Oracle programmer to fulfill this job. Just because an ad says Oracle does
not
mean they expect you to know EVERYTHING about Oracle systems. 

A good jr. to mid-Level writer in the software industry should have some
HTML
experience and exposure to relational databases and web servers. Clearly
they're not looking for a tool-monkey, but a more well-rounded candidate who
knows some technologies. Its too bad more companies don't demand this of
their
writers. It would get rid of a lot of tool tyrants in the profession.

Andrew Plato 
Cat Monkey