Re: "Credentials are so 20th century" - "The degree is doomed" - Harvard Business Review

Subject: Re: "Credentials are so 20th century" - "The degree is doomed" - Harvard Business Review
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: Lois Patterson <loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:50:10 -0800

I've never made a degree a requirement in the hiring of a tech writer, and over the years have made new tech writers out of lab and field service techs who only had OTJ experience in their fields and even an administrative assistant (the average engineering dept admin does a much better job of dealing with recalcitrant engineers than most tech writers, btw).

Gene Kim-Eng


On 12/8/2014 12:40 AM, Lois Patterson wrote:



I also think it would be useful to think about how a prospective (or
current) technical writer could build a basket of measurable skills that
would establish competence. And although it might seem difficult to measure
how a candidate would interact with SMEs, for example, I suspect there are
ways to do that too.

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