Re: are tw-interviewers incompetent by definition?

[Win Day <winday -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM>]

At 08:54 AM 6/17/97 -0700, wayned -at- verity -dot- com wrote:
>Win Day wrote:
>> They hired me based on the strength of the proposal.  I included a sample
>> rewrite of a couple of pages from one of their manuals, a short-term and
>> long-term project plan, and detailed schedules and budgets for both.  I
>> didn't even bring a portfolio -- everything I'd written while I was working
>> in engineering was proprietary. (My background is chemical engineering.)
>>
>Whether it be certification or finding that first job or whatever, it
>boils down to rhetoric, which this group should know something about.
>The rhetoric of Win's proposal was sufficiently persuasive to convince
>the company to hire him. The same could be said of a resume, a
>portfolio, an interview.
>

Jeepers, I'm going to have confess.  I'm a her, not a him.

Otherwise, thanks, Wayne.

Win
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Win Day
Technical Writer/Editor
Email: winday -at- idirect -dot- com

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