Re: Getting an Entry-Level Tech Writing Job

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

I look for someone with hands-on experience in the technical field or product type being documented who has some reasonably 
successful experience documenting his or her own work.  I won't say this is a universal truth, but in my experience it has been much 
easier to train an experienced technical person such as a lab tech, service tech, engineer, etc., who can string words together into 
a reasonably coherent sentence in the tools and techniques of documenting than the other way around.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emily Sirois" <emilysirois -at- comcast -dot- net>
> I was just wondering what some of the qualifications are or what employers look for when hiring entry level tech writers.

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