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Re: Writing tests for Peoplesoft contract position?

Subject: Re: Writing tests for Peoplesoft contract position?
From: Chuck Martin <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:21:51 -0800


Julia Williams wrote:
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Personally I like to have the opportunity to be mentally prepared for a test
by knowing roughly what sort of thing it covers (tool stuff? writing style?
grammar/spelling etc.).

I go into interviews "mentally prepared" for just about anything.

Rarely have I been asked about my writing skills at an interview. Only once have I been asked to take a brief writing test (I forget whether I knew that going in, but I got the job). More often I'm being interviewed by project manager and engineers who have no clue about how to write, never mind how to write technical documentation, and so I don't even get questions about those subjects.

Writing tests at interviews? I say: Bring it on! Don't even tell me in advance. Don't even say what it covers. I'm good at all of it. (Otherwise, I wouldn't be interviewing.) Sure, you can see plenty of good work in my samples, but I'll write you something good right now. I'll show you right now how good I am.

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