RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!

Subject: RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!
From: <Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:03:51 -0800

And at the opposite end of that spectrum...
Here at Mitchell Repair, where ex-auto mechanics have been hired as tech writers for as long as this company has existed, it has been very hard to find hands-on machinery techs who can also write. For the twenty years I've been here, we've done all our hiring through temp agencies because we need to try-out so many potential writers just to find the few gems.

Brian Henderson
Mitchell 1
http://www.mitchell1.com


-----Original Message----- From: Marguerite Krupp

I agree with John. When I was a hiring manager, I often found that philosophy majors, former clergy, musicians, and weavers

Continuing my previous message:
,,,often made great tech writers. The common thread is that all are able to express abstractions in terms that ordinary people can understand or relate to.
 
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