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> I am attempting to recruit a "senior" technical
> writer. I am finding people who respond to my job
> announcements who have accomplished all sorts of
> things and claim to be technical writers so that they can
> be hired by my company.
You aren't hiring a senior technical writer. You aren't hiring a
technical writer. You are hiring sonmeone who can do what you want at
the level that you want it.
Be very specific about what you want in the applicant. You want
someone who has created, from scratch, X types of documentation, with
X skill sets, using X tools, for X years.
Example: Looking for someone with a Computer Science degree who can
read code and has a minimum of 7 years of writing expereince creating
C-type (either C, C++, C#) API documentation using Framemaker.
Be specific. You're then justified in eliminating anyone who misses
any of the requirememnts.
Example: "Why didn't you hire the applicant who came in yesterday?"
"She couldn't read C"
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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