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Re: For those who hire... what makes a resume stand out?
Subject:Re: For those who hire... what makes a resume stand out? From:"K. Joyce McDonald" <KJoyceMcDonald -at- satx -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:36:54 -0500
Having learned the hard way that sarcastic replies get you nowhere, I
calmly informed him that it takes months to even learn the basics of
RoboHelp. I then asked him if in a similar situation he would ask one of our
programmers to teach her (the proposal writer) PowerBuilder on the way out.
>Don't keep us in suspense. Did you do and say what I would have been
> tempted to do and say?
>
> --
> Peter
> Mailto:peternew -at- optonline -dot- net
>
> Adapting old programs to fit new machines
> usually means adapting new machines to
> behave like old ones.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter" <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>
To: "K. Joyce McDonald" <KJoyceMcDonald -at- satx -dot- rr -dot- com>
Cc: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>; <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: For those who hire... what makes a resume stand out?
> "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.
> >
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