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I think a small number of awards on a resume can be useful, especially if you can point to objective reasons why you deserved the award ("This manual won an award because it used screen captures effectively"). If someone gives you an award that's demonstrably based on merit, and it's *free*, why not?
On the other hand, as I said, in this case the price seems pretty steep.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milan Davidović
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:17 AM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: APEX awards
>
> But who is Apex that anyone should care whether you get an
> award from them? From what do they get their authority and
> credibility?
>
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