Re: Certification: Ernest and Scribbler

[John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

They are not mutually exclusive....FAA is domain knowledge, ..it
doesn't mean that someone with FAA knowledge is a good technical
writer and more than someone with good knowledge of financial
derivatives is a good financial technical writer.

Ideally, I'd want both. If I can't get both? Hiring managers wrestle
with that every day....writing skill or domain knowledge.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Richard L Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> wrote:
>>
>> If I were reading documentation aimed at pilots, I would much
>> rather know that the tech writer was FAA certified than STC certified.
>>
> I hadn't thought about it that way, but that's a really good point.



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