Re: Employer's Test, was Technical Writer Certification

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

What I actually had in mind was a "basic skills test" that
would magically enable me to determine whether the
employer knows its business and would not be sinking
slowly into the sunset a couple of years after one joins
it, not some sort of new age personality test.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com


> My only piece of advice here is something I learned from an old
> contract developer. When you go in for the interview, make sure to
> screw up a trivial thing at the beginning of the interview, like having
> a price tag still on your pants or misidentifying the street name you
> took to get there.
> 
> If they ignore the error or make too big of a deal about it, they may
> be focused more on personality than the job itself.

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