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Subject:RE: About proprietary writing samples From:letoured -at- together -dot- net To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 06 Aug 2002 11:57:12 -0400
In <CAFAAEC91CC8D511952000062938C6F133A929 -at- ozlan -dot- fcdomain -dot- net>, on 08/06/02
at 09:23 AM, "Foster, Willow" <Wfoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com> said:
>Maybe we are talking about different things. It just seems to me that if you
>are able to document something as complicated as gas turbines, you'd be able
>to create a decent sample. Not some made-up bit of gobbledygook, but a
>document about a generic system that highlights your knowledge. I still agree
>with Ed. If I were the original poster, I'd write a sample.
Think differently here;
The "writer" is being hired as the expert. The writer is not someone who
takes the work of others and makes it sound better. A made up sample in the
case I used, that would mean creating a 100 or 200 page dummy document with
all the engineering detail of the real thing -- and which would have no
relevance without containing everything would be included for the actual
machine -- Now put that into the context of the interviewer who knows you came
from a competitor -- and he would know where the information came from! So
the whole idea is pretty lame.
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