Re: For those who hire... what makes a resume stand out?

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>]

"K. Joyce McDonald" wrote:
> 
> 
> Andrew struck a chord with me here. I have been a senior level technical
> writer for several years, but prospective employers still want to pay me
> less than half of what a senior technical writer should be paid. Their
> reasoning: If you can type, you can do technical writing. When they find
> someone willing to accept their ridiculously low salary, the person can do
> little else besides type, and probably isn't very good at that. Then the
> employer says "Gee, Technical Writers are dumb!
> 
> I worked with one junior-level writer that was so incompetent that in spite
> of his 11-hour days, he never produced a finished product in the six months
> he was with us. When he was laid off, my work load decreased exponentially
> because after he left, I only had to do his job (in addition to my own).
> Before he left, I spent a lot of my time babysitting him AND doing his job.
> 
> Even when you get that well-paid Senior Technical Writer/Documentation
> Manager position, you don't get away from the "Tech Writers are Dumb"
> attitude. I was "downsized" a month ago, meaning that the Research and
> Development department had NO documentation department when I left. When the
> VP of R & D broke the news to me (at 2 PM) he told me that my employment was
> terminated, effective immediately. Then he asked me if, in addition to
> packing, I would teach the new proposal writer to use RoboHelp before I
> left.
> 
Don't keep us in suspense. Did you do and say what I would have been
tempted to do and say?

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Peter
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