atw: Re: Job ads on austechwriter [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

This I agree with. Something like:

 

Industry: _______________

Target application/system: _________________

Location: ________________

Tenure: Permanent (or Fixed-term for ____________ months)

Pay: $XX/hr or $XX,XXX per annum

Contact: ____________________

Telephone: ________________

Email: _________________

 

Basta!

 

All the hype that goes with these things is a pain in the a***. Enough
with the spammy marketing guff, already!

 

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We could always request some guidelines for job posts to be put in to
the list information. 
You know, role, type (perm vs contract) what it is being done, where,
when, rate, etc. 
If it is laid out in a standard form with a standard subject line you
can delete it out of hand. 

Lots of the recruiters do watch the lists, and cringe or laugh in
various amounts. If it makes it easier for us and no harder for them,
then who would mind? 

Warren Lewington
Technical Writer
Phone: 02 8572 3195
warren.lewington@xxxxxxxxxx
John Holland Water Projects 



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Maybe we need to agree as a group on our attitude to job ads on this
list. The information about the list says: 

This list is a forum for technical writers to discuss the theory and
practice of technical communication. The forum will become an archive of
useful tips and solutions regarding workflow queries, software usage,
project planning, documentation standards...indeed anything of relevance
to the profession of technical authoring. 

It doesn't mention job ads, though the last part is pretty vague. 

I don't mind the current quantity of ads - and I'd hope that the posters
of the ads to this list might know a bit more about what tech writers
do. But I can imagine it could reach an annoying level and then we might
have to reassess the situation. 

Rereading the information I just quoted, I can't now resist observing
that it starts of with 'technical writers', then moves to 'technical
communication' and then finally to 'technical authoring'. Are there some
subtle distinctions being made here, or was the author just using what
Fowler called 'elegant variation'? 

Oh dear, here I go again. Some of us just can't read any piece of text
without subjecting it to a critical analysis. (My toaster said 'Crumpets
face inwards' and I started wondering whether it was an exhortation to
the crumpets or a notional definition of the nature of a crumpet. Yes,
maybe I do need to get a life.) 

Howard 



 

 

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