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Subject:RE: Alternative to Off-shore contracting From:"Lippincott, Rick" <Rick -dot- Lippincott -at- flir -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:36:40 -0500
Bill D.:
>Ron, your $30K for TW experience is in the right price range. Here's
one
>that came through yesterday for Southern California from a major
aerospace
>employer. You will note that technical writing experience is only one
of a
>list of prerequisites for this position.
It is cheap money, especially for that area.
On the other hand, this really doesn't look like it's exactly a tech
writing position (despite the fact that "technical writing" is called
for in the list of qualifications, I suspect that's just a wish list
compiled from a list of standardized desired skills).
> XXXXXXXXXXX Services Company has a temporary position for a Data
>Verification Analyst. The candidate will be verifying information on
>technical manuals and engineering drawings.
In other words, the employee will be taking the drafts that someone else
has already written, and essentially doing a fact check on them. The
data verification analyst has a much easier job (this isn't just
hyperbole, I'd guess it's about 1/10th the degree of difficulty as
writing the manuals). For starters, the writer has to do all of the
research and come up with the source data to develop the manual. The
data verification analyst will typically go to the writer and ask for
copies of all that source data, which is a heck of a lot easier than
digging it all up from scratch.
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