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RE: Is this a typical technical writing environment?
Subject:RE: Is this a typical technical writing environment? From:"T. Word Smith" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:'TECHWR-L' <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:56:00 -0800 (PST)
Sigh, if only. BUT! Of course, we do.
But, I'm not sure managers get tested nor am I sure
how the results are used. For example, if a potential
tw candidate got a 98% on our test, and was a good fit
in every other way including money, I still couldn't
be certain we'd hire them ... but, again, that's a
management decision ... and so it goes.
--- Bill Swallow <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Those aren't managers... They're manglers. ;)
>
> If only your employer would institute an IQ test for
> candidate screening...
> That would certainly solve that problem... Or not...
> ;)
<g>
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T.
"Money makes the world go 'round is an incomplete statement; money is the fuel, and stupidity is the short bus that burns it." (Bill Swallow-02/04)
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