atw: Re: Strange job advertisements/skills combinations
- From: joe_zolin@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:11:26 +1100
Point taken and well put.
Joe Zolin
Technical Communicator/Tech Comms MYOB
E-mail: JOE.ZOLIN@xxxxxxxxxxx
Phone (work): (03) 9222 9992 Ext. 7429
"BIRTLEY-KENT,Christine"
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Christine wrote:
> How many of you have taken beautiful manuals to interviews
> that were designed, written or edited by someone else?
Craig wrote:
Surely it's *usual* that converting information into a finished manual
is not just one person's work. (There'll be at least one writer, there
should be an editor, and perhaps there'll be a separate "template
creator" or even a graphic designer.)=20
Precisely. I point this out to anyone interviewing me who asks for
evidence of previous work. Most of them take it OK. Fortunately these
days I have published books to take under my arm - and they are 99.9% my
own work - so I no longer have the problem, but I did experience it for
many years.
But there is also wrongdoing - one team member used a manual I wrote,
and in which he took no part, at a job interview. He got the job - and
I knew for experience working with him that he was not capable of doing
it.
Whilst I have observed quite a few examples of what I consider to be
'wrongdoing' amongst technical writers looking for work, I have had to
learn in recent years that in the same way the 'quality' is a movable
parameter, so is 'ethical behaviour'. It shifts according to
circumstances. People will do what they perceive they have to do to
survive. We all set 'survive' at a different point in the same way that
we set the 'fit for purpose' quality parameter at a different point.
ck
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