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Subject:Re: Re[2]: IBM or Mac From:John McGhie <jmcghie -at- WORLD -dot- NET> Date:Sat, 19 Aug 1995 08:41:01 +1000
At 09:42 AM 18/08/95 est, RICK_SAPIR -at- gilbarco -dot- com wrote:
>Seems to me you've left out interviewing and research skills. I find that the
>majority of my time is spent researching products, interviewing SMEs, and
>gathering information. Rather than actually writing the document.
This is what I get for responding to posts late at night when the brain has
faded.
Someone else commented that I seemed to be placing skill with Windows ahead
of the ability to actually do Technical Writing.
Yes, you are right.
Do you find that there are vanishingly few people on the market who are
really good at interviewing?
