atw: Re: samples of work requested at interview
- From: Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:34:26 +1000
I found this to be an ongonig nightmare until I wrote my own copyright
material. That solves the problem.
I still carefully point out to them that they have no idea who designed the
material, who has really written it, whether there was a substantive editor
who fixed it up, how much layout work had to be done on it by someone else,
how much proofreading was required, and who did the indexing.
But apart from that. they are welcome to judge me on the quality of the
book.
Ho hum.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Bob Trussler <bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> This has happened twice now. An organisation has requested that I send
> them copies of my previous work – as SOFTCOPIES!
>
> We have … decided to request examples of written work before we progress
> to interview.
> One or two examples of some user guide or instructional material you have
> developed would be much appreciated.
>
>
> This is a great idea BUT as I work for government departments, most of the
> work that I do is confidential in one way or another.
> In the past, I have taken a bundle of carefully selected printed copies of
> my work to an interview.
> I don't keep a copy of seriously confidential documents for personal use,
> because I am simply not allowed to. In many offices, you cannot copy to a
> USB memory stick or CD or whatever so taking a softcopy cannot be done.
>
>
>
> Does the person requesting the sample documents understand confidentiality?
>
>
> Do they consider the situation if it was reversed and I gave a softcopy of
> their documents to another organisation, maybe a competitor?
>
> What do other people do in this situation?
>
> Bob Trussler
>
>
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Christine
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