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Subject:RE: Job searching in this time of attrition... From:Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:<deboraames -at- hotmail -dot- com>, <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:58:19 -0400
Sometimes docs are available publicly on a company's Web site.
Seems dangerous to me, though. You are identifying a problem when you know little or nothing about the origin of the problem, and the people behind it. This might work for very small organizations but do you want to do work for free when you don't know who's toes you might step on or if you will put someone else's job on the line?
> From: deboraames -at- hotmail -dot- com
> To: steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Job searching in this time of attrition...
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:51:21 +0000
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> Steve, how does one (who is not a client) find out what a company's docs look like?
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> > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:43:07 -0400
> > From: Steve Schwarzman <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com>
> > To: Will Husa Documentation Solutions <will -dot- husa -at- 4techwriter -dot- com>
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> > Bobby, in addition to looking for posted jobs, also try contacting
> > companies/organizations that you'd like to work for. But don't call cold. Do
> > your research first. Find out what they do, what their docs look like, and
> > who's who. Then send an email offering specific assistance in solving a
> > particular problem you've identified to the relevant person. And then follow
> > up with a phone call. You might get an opening in the door in this way, by
> > offering to help solve a problem instead of asking for a job.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Steve Schwarzman
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