RE: How do hiring companies view TW resumes?

["Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>]

I once worked for an engineering firm in which 80% of the personnel held
PhDs. I edited a professional journal paper for one engineer who Could.
Not. Spell. I carefully corrected all his "typos". 

He put them all back the way they were.

No, they weren't technical terms I didn't understand. They were words
like "bridge". 

Bottom line: Pride and ignorance are not confined the human resources
department.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Neilson
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:24 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: How do hiring companies view TW resumes?
> 
> Does anyone else have evidence that HR people might be so 
> misaligned with reality as to assume that they can spell 
> technical terms better than tech writers?
> 


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