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Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500

Subject: Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:34:57 -0800

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>

A resume is not a writing test, other than to determine if the person
can write a resume....that's what the portfolio is. If you want to
know if the person can write a tight document, I'm sure the interview
(with portfolio or writing test) can establish that.

I would argue that your cover and resume are indeed writing tests,
and possibly the toughest ones you're going to take for most jobs
(certainly for any job with a manager like me who isn't going to
make you sit down and take any canned writing or editing test).

First you have to define the document requirements based on the
available input (job description, info from web research or any
other source you can find).

Than you have to produce a document for your targeted readers.
The first of these - and possibly the only one who is going to
make a decision about you based solely on your cover and resume -
is a headhunter or HR recruiter/screener who is most likely not a specialist in either technical writing or the company's products and underlying tech, but is comparing a large number of incoming resumes to the job description. Your portfolio isn't going to help here, because if you don't grab this person's attention, it's unlikely that anyone else in the company is ever going to meet you or see your samples.
We're starting to fall back into the trap of determining if the
writer can use styles by seeing they used styles in the resume....a
bad approach in my opinion.

I don't know about anyone else, but I use them in mine, even though I haven't sent one out in Word in years. Not taking
any chances.

Gene Kim-Eng
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