atw: Re: ethics and skills
- From: "Matilda Reich" <matildar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:09:16 +1100
Terry,
As a writer recruiter, what do you mean by "a shortfall of referees"?
Regarding soft-copy of a writers work, I believe when it comes to whole
works a writer can only have a hard-copy version to demonstrate because the
copyright belongs to the employer.
Matilda Reich
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry D <morgan4four@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: atw: ethics and skills
> > 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.
>
> I had an interesting experience a few years back when
> I developed a template for a project I was working on.
> Within an hour of putting it on the intranet, one of
> the other 'writers' came around and told me he wanted
> to show me a template he'd created a month or two
> earlier. It was the one I had just finished. Now, this
> guy didn't even know how to auto-generate a TOC in
> MSWord, and here he was with my template with my
> initials all over it saying he'd created all of these
> styles with short-cut keys. I asked him how he did a
> couple of the features. Obviously, he couldn't answer.
> I then pointed out that it was my work.
>
> I am able to say that he has failed in job hunting a
> couple of times because recruiters have asked if I
> know him.
>
> I also worked with a guy who didn't know why the text
> he was typing in was gobbling up existing text, or how
> Ctrl affected operations like Delete, Backspace, Home
> and End. Yet this guy had several years experience as
> a writer. He also change ANDing and ORing in a
> document on circuit logic to adding and o-ring.
>
> When I recruit writers, I always request a softcopy of
> their work as that tells me so much more about their
> knowledge of the applications they're using. And,
> where possible, I ask people I know and trust to
> referee on the applicant's skills.
>
> However, a brief test that shows their computer,
> language, communications and technical skills is a
> good way of getting around a shortfall of referees.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
>
>
>
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