RE: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote: 
 
> Some document names can be worth mentioning.  The question 
> is, have you written any?
> 
> If I got a resume from an ex-aerospace-engineer-turned- 
> techwriter that said, "wrote the instructions used to install 
> square air filters into round holes on Apollo 13,"  I would 
> get that person in for an interview.  

Absolutely. In fact, if this fact came to light in the interview, I'd be
puzzled -- and disappointed -- that the candidate _failed_ to mention it
in the resume. 

Which brings us back to "It depends." And exercising good judgement
about what to highlight and what to discard. I suspect that for every
tech writing work product worth mentioning by name or describing in
detail, there are at least 10,000,000 that aren't. 

But I could be wrong. It depends. :-)

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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