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Subject:Re: radical idea From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 16 May 1997 11:46:23 -0600
At 11:20 AM 5/16/97 -0400, Kathryn B. Swain wrote:
>So John, where ARE you? Betcha ANYTHING you're nowhere near where I am
>(darnit). Good luck! Whoever gets this new position is a lucky duck. You
>won't have any trouble finding good candidates.
I wish I could agree with that. Hiring writer/trainer candidates with
any experience was (one year ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma) approaching
impossible. We finally hired someone who really fit the bill
but had very few applicants who could really do either one, unsupervised,
as needed.
Eric
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