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Re: Certification -- what's in it for writers

Subject: Re: Certification -- what's in it for writers
From: "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:46:40 -0400

When you have had 30 jobs to list, it has to be light, or it will be easily over 3 pages, meaning no one will read it.

Before you gasp at 30 jobs, to a contractor, this is well within reason. Six months here, three months there, and you see in 10 years you can easily have 10 to 20 jobs.

While many look for long contracts, others look for short ones. It is the sense of adventure, the challenge of something new, and a lack of boredom churning the same dull manual out for years at a time in some "secure" company that will lay you off the first time some accountant sees he can save 10% budget by outsourcing your job to India.

While some of these short jobs can be described in three lines, others may need 10 or 15 and you simply do not have the room.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: Certification -- what's in it for writers


If a resume is "really light" on what the candidate's done, where the
candidate's done it, and what positive results the candidate can point
to, the only reason to keep reading is that you're looking for an
entry-level technical writer. But the current STC cert process isn't
intended for them.


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