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I have a box of documents that I have created and the agreement I made for
each one is that I will be present when a prospective employer is looking at
it and that I will never leave it with anybody or let it out of my sight in
any way. That has always been acceptable.
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From: Keith Hood [mailto:klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:57 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Showing sample and proprietary content
When you guys are doing a job search, how do you handle the matter of
showing samples of previous work if your previous work is proprietary
content? I'm trying to answer a job ad that says the employer wants to see
samples, but everything I've done for the past
8 years was all for the company's internal use only, and is supposed to be
confidential. At my present job I even signed an agreement to that effect.
Any advice on what to do?
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Keith Hood
Senior (only) tech writer
ACS, Inc.
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