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Re: Portfolios and writing samples...

Subject: Re: Portfolios and writing samples...
From: Dan Roberts <DRoberts -at- ISOGON -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:41:37 -0400

Title: RE: Portfolios and writing samples...

now think for a second.
you're on an interview, and the interviewer wants to see if you are worth your salt. Do you really want to sit around while the interviewer peruses your document/chapter in whatever detail she or he wants? And then if there are multiple stages to the interview, or multiple persons involved in interviewing you, you have to sit around some more while all these folks read your samples in whatever detail they need?

and who says that your portfolio must contain your most current project? probably you have earlier projects that have been made available to the public?

and what interviewer wants to read an entire doc/chapter (unless it's *very* short). Just give 'em 2-3 pages - that's probably enough to give them a sense of your capabilities.

Dan Roberts
droberts -at- isogon -dot- com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: DHICKEY -at- ALIS -dot- COM [mailto:DHICKEY -at- ALIS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 11:18 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Portfolios and writing samples...
>
>
> 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.

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