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Subject:Re: Job Postings -Reply From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 May 1997 15:22:46 -0700
At 05:31 PM 5/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>If you don't state the minimum requirements of the job, no matter how
>seemingly obvious they are, you're going to get too many unqualified
>applicants who just decided this morning that maybe they should be a
>tech writer, and you're going to get more beefs from people who didn't
>get the job.
You'll get them anyway. I routinely ignore the so-called "minimum
requirements of the job" if I'm really interested.
--Wayne Douglass
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