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Subject:Re: Portfolios and writing samples... From:DHICKEY -at- ALIS -dot- COM Date:Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:18:03 -0400
Greetings!
> *An employer is certainly within her rights to demand a portfolio.
> She is not, however, within her rights to ask the candidate if she can
> photocopy the samples. *
> lends itself to suspicion of a hidden agenda. I personally
> know three gifted writers in my area who have been victimized
> this very way by unscrupulous interviewers who intimidated
> them into allowing their portfolios be taken from the room
> during their interviews, only to have some copies appear
Egads... I'm going for an interview tomorrow where the interviewer asked for
some writing samples he could keep! I felt a little uneasy about this
request, but I was going to print out a chapter from an older manual.
Now that I've read this post, I see that my uneasiness may be justified.
I'll just tell the interviewer (it's an agency) that if a company wants to
see my writing samples, they can interview me.
<KACHING> Here's your $1 Eric!
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Be seeing you,
Dave
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John David Hickey
Montreal, Quebec, Canada eh?
They say that the pen is mightier than the sword.
But if you miss a deadline, you'd better bring the sword.
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Don't confuse my opinion with my employer's.
Each exists in blissful ignorance of the other.
