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Subject:RE: Test assignment for a tech.writer candidate? From:David Tinsley <dtinsley -at- ndigital -dot- com> To:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:31:30 +0000
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at that moment!
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Subject: Re: Test assignment for a tech.writer candidate?
I had the same thing happen to me. Fortunately I had the EXACT same hard copy in my office to pull down. "I don't need to see the sample; I have my own copy that I wrote."
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> I once interviewed a candidate who had worked for one of my former
> employers. Guess who had actually written the document he presented
> to me as an example of his work...
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
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