What do I need to know about lotus Notes, or any other app, for that matter?

[Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

--- John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

>Isn't it reasonable for them to expect you to know something about it?

Employers have the right to demand any qualification they want. Not
being aware of their innermost thoughts, I can not tell whether the
request is reasonable, however.

My first gig as a technical writer was done entirely with pencil and
legal-sized pads of lined paper. The word-processing pool did the rest.

What I DID know something about was English grammar and style. And for
the client, that was enough.

But with each additional contract, more and more emphasis has been put
on tools (down to very specific release numbers, e.g. Windows OS must
be XP (SP3), Framemaker must be 7.2, you get the idea) and less and
less on the competencies that allow me to write well.

I have a friend who downloads trial licenses and spends weekends
cramming before interviews. That's an approach.

It's my job to sell the clients, in the face of very specific
requirements, how my very general skills and experience can meet their
challenges.

If they don't get it, I probably don't want to work there. In any
event, I probably WON'T work there.

Peter Sturgeon



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