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Re: Contractors: Local jobs, out of town recruiters?
Subject:Re: Contractors: Local jobs, out of town recruiters? From:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sun, 5 Mar 2006 15:18:00 -0800
On Thursday 02 March 2006 11:06, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> Might be a good arrangement
> for a writer who's a "glorified secretary" with no technical
> knowledge, but if the writers actually know something
> about the product and what it's supposed to do it robs the
> development process of a potential resource for identifying
> areas that need improvement.
NOTE TO TW MANAGERS WHO USE CONTRACTORS:
This is a great reason for getting writers onto projects well before
development ends. Don't wait until three months before the ship date to bring
in your writers.
Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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