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Subject:RE: How to kill morale From:"Hart, Rowena" <Hart -at- SelkirkFinancial -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:30:17 -0800
Jody et al,
Not sure about the U.S., but up here in
Canada the gov't maintains a "big book
of jobs". Each job is described in terms
of duties, skills needed to enter, work
environment, expected salary, etc. One of
the interesting stats associated with each
job is the industry growth potential.
While I was unemployed last year I had the
opportunity to participate in a government
job assessment program. We used the "big
book" to assess our previous jobs and look
at jobs in other areas. Based on the stats
gathered in 2000, the growth potential for
tech writing was exceptionally high.
It would be interesting to find out if that
statistical growth potential is lowered in
the 2001/2002 "big book".
Cheers,
Rowena
# -----Original Message-----
# From: Jody LaFerriere [mailto:jody -at- bigdumptruck -dot- com]
#
# out at the start of the session. Apparently when we first
# filed a claim
# and they took all our information, either our job title or
# our industry
# was flagged as being on a downward trend.
#
# WHAT? HUH? Okay, I've read enough to know that's not
# entirely true. I
# have to believe it's because my last job was as a tech writer for an
# engineering company, and there were actually 5 people from
# engineering
# companies. But gee, way to motivate people to go find a job.
#
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