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Re: Rates

Subject: Re: Rates
From: "John Fleming" <johntwrl -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:01:13 +0000



On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:01:54 -0800 (PST), while chained to a desk in the scriptorium, obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com ("Mike O.") wrote:

$John Fleming wrote:
$| Just because a person can use the tools doesn't mean $| the person is a great technical writer.

$Yeah that was my point. The posted job is about using DotHLP to
$create some kind of training material. But they didn't ask for
$training experience, and apparently subject matter expertise
$isn't required either. Just DotHLP.

Sounds like they are emphasizing the wrong thing.

But giving this a little thought, an evil idea crossed my mind.

The poor recruiter is going to have to interview a few people about for a postion writing training material using DotHLP. The poor recruiter has visions of a desk buried in resumes. The recuiter makes experience in a little known application a requirement as this will make it easier to wade throught that pile of resumes. Sure, it weeds out a few good candidates, but what they hey, the job is now less work for the recruiter.

(Am I sounding cynical or what?)


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Edmonton, Canada

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