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Re: RE: 10 things all tech writers should do - but different
Subject:Re: RE: 10 things all tech writers should do - but different From:<sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:13:37 -0500
Back in the days when I was a hiring manager, I saw a bunch of the kinds of resumes Sharon is talking about -- and they are frustrating to say the least. For every job, they give the same description. "XYZ Corporation: Wrote user manuals, reference manuals, and quick reference cards using FrameMaker."
Okay... <blink, blink, shiver> Where these books for financial apps? ...programmer tools? ...video games???? It does make a difference.
On my resume, I call out tools and technologies separately after each job description, just so there's no mistaking what I've done and what I know. ...and I've gotten some very positive responses.
> Sharon Burton-Hardin wrote:
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> > I was looking specifically for technical writers with specific domain
> > knowledge. My point is that I own a tech writing consulting company, may need
>
> > to put together a team with skills my team does not all have and, when
> > looking at brief write ups of the tech writers, didn't get anything about the
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> > domain of knowledge people have.
>
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