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Subject:Re: How do hiring companies view TW resumes? From:Clayton Oliver <coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:08:27 -0400
Quoth Peter Neilson:
> Does anyone else have evidence that HR people might be so misaligned
> with reality as to assume that they can spell technical terms better
> than tech writers?
I've seen a contracting firm's representative "edit" candidates' resumes
to fit the company's standard template. I wouldn't have minded so much if
the "editor" in question hadn't added spelling and grammar errors. Not
the best possible way to represent a candidate for a technical writing
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