[TCP] certification (was: ranting STC)

[Gene Kim-Eng]

Don't hold your breath.  In the absence of a law that requires me 
as a hiring manager to only employ "certified tech writers," the 
supply of people available to mw to fill a tech writing position 
will continue to include anyone I choose to consider, i.e., 
anyone with technical knowledge who I think I can make a tech 
writer out of.  That's my whole point about the "value" (or lack
thereof) of certification.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Bedinger" <doc at edwordsmith.com>

> While I'm confident that certification alone could never result in TWs 
> having cartel powers (cool if it could), still, as I think you say, 
> certification could be awarded by a TW organization that somehow comes 
> to represent tech writers in the marketplace.  That's a more potent (and 
> dangerous) situation, with the potential to control the supply of TW 
> (the commodity).