Re: job-hunt weirdness

Subject: Re: job-hunt weirdness
From: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:16:51 -0700

*<poof my cover letters and resume>*

Therein lies the rub with many HR folks, hiring managers, and recruiters....

> Chris

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:

> True, and those people often aren't very sensitive to the finer points
> of grammar and so on, so the technical content of writing samples is
> likely to be even more crucial than when the hiring manager is a
> professional writer.
>
> Though I still have a grammar teacher poof my cover letters and resume
> updates, and when possible supply writing samples that were proofed by
> experienced editors rather than just checked for accuracy by
> engineers.
>
> I've had the advantage of looking at hundreds of other writers' sample
> docs, so I have an informed professional opinion of how mine stack up.
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:41 AM, McLauchlan,
> Kevin<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> > I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and suggest that a large percentage
> of us are lone writers (even if - as I do - we work in companies that have
> several writers, but scattered around the country/world).
> >
> > In that case, the person doing the hiring is not any kind of docs
> manager.
> > He or she is a product or project mangler, or an engineering manager.
> > And the concept of paying somebody to proof and copy-edit is not even
> part of their universe.
> >
> > So, what you present is what you are, and that's the reasonable basis on
> which they'll decide if they want you.
> >
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References:
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Michael West
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: McLauchlan, Kevin
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Robert Lauriston

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