Although I have some experience with most tools, one point I often make to recruiters is that if the were looking for a truck driver to drive a Peterbuilt and they had a great candidate who'd only driven Kenworths, would they present that candidate? You bet. Even if I've never seen it before I can be productive with pretty much any DTP, WP, or graphics tool in a very short time. I make my living working without a net... learning how to use completely undocumented software packages and writing the documentation for them, in most cases with very little input from subject matter experts.
-- Mike Starr WriteStarr Information Services Technical Writer - Online Help Developer - Technical Illustrator Graphic Designer - Desktop Publisher - MS Office Expert (262) 694-1028 - m...@writestarr.com - http://www.writestarr.com On 4/27/2010 11:37 AM, Thomas Johnson wrote:
Is there ANY industry that has settled on one tool? Too many employers emphasize tool skills and don't place enough emphasis on critical thinking. Instead, they should be looking at real qualities like: the ability to think, writing skills, and organizational skills. If technical writers cannot learn how to use different tools, how can they ever hope to learn about new technology well enough to write about it? Tom Johnson 231-944-7454 tajohn...@microlinetc.com
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