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Subject:Re: Advice for a career changer? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:17:32 -0800 (PST)
> college textbook publisher. He's now trying to get a
> fulltime job as a tech writer, but he has never had
> the opportunity to learn FrameMaker or Robo-Help, and
> every job for which he interviews requires knowledge
> of those software packages, even if the specific ad
> doesn't say so.
Then learn them.
Buy a copy of the software (unless he's not serious enought to invest
$700 in his new career), buy a book, spend a couple of weeks with the
software. Now, when someone says "Do you know FrameMaker?", just say
yes. (BTW...this way works, it did for me...but I only gave myself a
weekend and on the Monday, at a new position, was starting to produce
content in Frame)
OTOH...it appears he's looking in the wrong places...probably at
positins for senior writewrs...which he isn't. Half the requirements
I come across for positipons other than entry level require, as their
core, 3+ years, BA, and Word.
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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer, in process of looking
for next contract effective 1/1/2001.
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."
-Abraham Lincoln mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874
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