Re: Employers' Mistaken Job Requirements

Subject: Re: Employers' Mistaken Job Requirements
From: Matt Ion <soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ML -dot- ORG>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:00:17 -0800

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:46:28 -0800, Elizabeth Vollbach wrote:

>How can we convince employers who are looking to hire a tech writer that
>their primary concern should not be with the software programs a tech
>writer has experience using? that a technical writer is not, primarily,
>a typist?

I can't help but laugh at many employers' requirements. Irrelevance to
the job in question is the least of them; some border on outright
absurdity. A friend of mine, when hunting for a clerical job, came across
one ad that specified a minimum of two years' experience with Windows 95
as being "necessary". All fine and well, except that this job hunt took
place in early 1997, barely a year and a half since Windows 95 had been
released...


Your friend and mine,
Matt
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"Reality is in alpha test on protoype hardware."
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