Re: what separates a senior tech writer from a regular tech writer?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Are you just going to have two levels, or will there
be more?

I organize my generic levels this way (adjusted
as needed for different organizations):

Level 1,  "Junior"
A writer with two years or less of experience,
including internship or summer hire work and
no industry knowledge.

Level 2, "Staff"
An experienced writer with productive hands-on
writing skills but little or no industry knowledge.

Level 3, "Senior"
In the interests of saving time, see Leonard's
description.

Level 4, "Lead"
Everything in Level 3 plus the ability to teach
and mentor less experienced writers and the
leadership ability to effectively direct a project
team that may consist of writers with equivalent
or higher experience and knowledge levels than
their own.  Note: "ability" includes "willingness,"
so a writer who could do these things but doesn't
want to is excluded.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Kretschmer" <Paul -dot- Kretschmer -at- YARDI -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:19 AM
Subject: what separates a senior tech writer from a regular tech writer?


> Greetings,
>
> I've been asked to come up with a set of criteria for senior tech
> writers and regular (junior) tech writers at my workplace.  (Currently
> we are all just tech writers - there are no "seniors" among us, even
> though most of us have been doing this for years and years.)
>
> In your opinion, what are the important differences between a senior 
> and
> regular tech writer?  If you have any ideas, please pass them along.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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