What i want to say, the next post...

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

Post on a job site by a recruiter:
"
 Our established client in [Location] is in need of a Technical Writer with
extensive
> and current background and experience with WEB/E-Commerce and Unix/Solaris
> expertise. Highly desired would be someone with BEA WEblogic,
WEBMETHODS(required),
> WEblogic Portal experience and Netegrity Single-Sign-on as well.
> Preferrably someone with large company(Fortune 500) experience and
financial industry
> company experience.
> If you are LOCAL and have NO VISA ISSUES , and match the above
requirements
> , please contact me via email with your updated and current resume in a
Word
> document. "


Now I've never done Weblogic (although it was part of the underlying
technology of one product I documented, but never user-facing), but I have
applied at BEA when they've had openeings (never contacted though), so this
is one I wouldn't apply for. Still, there's such a desire to write to tis
recruiter and say simply:

"Uh, are you interested in hiring someone for this position who knows how to
write?"

Or maybe writing skills are required for this "Technical Writer" gig....  :)

One thing does have me curious though: I wonder why "large company (fortune
500) experience" is considered an important requirement.

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Chuck Martin
User Assistance & Experience Engineer
twriter "at" sonic "dot" net      www.writeforyou.com

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                    - Aragorn

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