Re: Help - my consultants cannot write!

[Andrew Plato <andrew -dot- plato -at- gmail -dot- com>]

They are full-time, salaried employees. We don't have very many contractors.

Remember, our business is not writing, its security. We do pen-tests,
compliance auditing, forensics investigations, etc. We don't do tech
writing work.

And in many cases, good penetration testers or compliance experts are
not always good writers. Hence the request for some ideas on how to
educate these people on better writing techniques.

Andrew Plato

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> So are these consultants W2 employees of your firm, or are they 1099s
> consulting to you?
>
> If the latter, why not just lay out your requirements to them, tell them you
> expect the work they submit to meet those requirements and let them figure
> out how to get the writing done or sub the editing out to someone?  Doesn't
> trying to train your consultants to follow a specific process run counter to
> the IRS's rules for defining independent contractors?
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
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