Re: Industry Standards

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> I have a question about "industry standards". Something that I
> often see
> included in job postings for technical writing positions is the
> line: "Familiarity with industry standards". Does anyone know 
> what this means or what employers are looking for when they ask
> this? It seems like such an open-ended question...

I take this as every industry that you may be writing about has its
standards. If you are writing for a stock brokerage copmpany, you ned
to know something about the SEC requirements. If it is about SOX, you
need to know something about accounting, if it is for a Microsoft
environment, knowing something about .net or sql might be beneficial,
depending on the subject. 


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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