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Re: Associate Degree in Technical Communications

Subject: Re: Associate Degree in Technical Communications
From: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:15:04 -0600

And should it ever come to pass that I'm in a position to be a hiring manager of technical writers (something I've successfully avoided lo these two-score years) I'd approach it the same way. I want to know what a candidate can do and how well they can do it. I don't care if they've got certain check marks on their resume.

The Associate Degree I earned didn't teach me nearly as much as actually being a technical writer for the four years prior to getting it. I got that job because the manager took a chance on me and gave me a job as a technical writer just because I had enough of an engineering background (the other Associate Degree) to understand the company's complex products (laser trim systems for hybrid microelectronics manufacturing).

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Associate Degree in Technical Communications

My tech writer job descriptions all say "or equivalent experience."
My personal threshold for this has traditionally been the old PE
exam criteria (four years OTJ gets you out of "in training" status),
but for someone with a bunch of glowing references I would
probably relax that as well. One of the best writers I ever had
was completely OTJ-trained and originally started as an office
admin/manager typing stuff for engineers.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
Having said that, every job or contract assignment I've ever held has had "Bachelor's Degree" as one of the requirements. But what's gotten me the job was experience.

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Re: Associate Degree in Technical Communications: From: Mike Starr
Re: Associate Degree in Technical Communications: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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