Re: Confidential portfolios

["Gibson, Stephanie" <SGibson -at- QWIZ -dot- COM>]

Someone gave me an idea a while back and I've suggested it several
times.  Rather than sending potentially sensitive/confidential
documents, rewrite an instruction booklet (i.e., VCR manual) or write a
procedure from scratch.  In either case, you're showing your writing
skills without worrying about the confidentiality of the materials you
present.  I actually hired someone that rewrote some of those awful
prescription medicine medical-ease papers that are folded and stuffed
into your bottle into simple, easy-to-understand English.  She performed
this task for a major medical college here in GA for one of her final
courses prior to graduation.   She was a 'green' writer, yet showed the
ability to take technical information and convert it into laymen terms.
She worked out fine.

Good luck,
stef

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> From:         geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA[SMTP:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]
> Reply To:     geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA
> Sent:         Tuesday, January 27, 1998 12:57 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Confidential portfolios
>
>  Lisa Woods wondered about <<...the desire to protect
>  sensitive material from scrutiny by outside persons... If
>  one had produced an example of writing containing sensitive
>  information which displayed one's ability to manipulate
>  graphics, layout, etc. (especially using a requisite
>  program), would it be acceptable to replace the proprietary
>  information with some other text?>>
>
>  It would certainly be an appropriate and innovative
>  solution, and it beats the heck out of "I could show you a
>  writing sample, but then I'd have to kill you", which is
>  guaranteed to leave the wrong impression at a job
>  interview. <grin> The rule of thumb in any sort of
>  publishing is that content is protected, but the techniques
>  for generating that content are not. If the situation were
>  otherwise, the guy or gal who invented the notion of
>  formatting headings differently from body text would be
>  rich enough to hire Bill Gates as a stablehand. Now there's
>  an image for you!
>
>  --Geoff Hart     @8^{)}     geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
>  Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.
>
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