The Recruiting Services team at Cherryleaf has created a a free eBook that provides help and advice on recruiting a Technical Author. It provides the answers to the most commonly asked questions relating to recruiting a Technical Author (such as salaries and the skill sets to expect). The eBook is free; it’s available as a… Read more »
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Documentation Manager – the impossible vacancy to fill?
This latest vacancy may well be.
Assess your technical writing skills – could you be a Technical Author?
Following on from our post Assessing writing skills – a response to “What Does It Mean to Know How to Write?”, we’ve created an experimental test page on our Web site that can help you assess your technical writing skills. The idea is you can compare your skills profile with that of a typical Technical… Read more »
Assessing writing skills – a response to “What Does It Mean to Know How to Write?”
Tom Johnson has sparked a lively debate with his blog post What Does It Mean to Write?. In the post, he wrote “It seems that writing is a spectrum skill”, providing a chart to demonstrate this: In the post’s discussion thread, a consensus seems to have been reached that you cannot define writing skills and… Read more »
What to write in a personal reference
Recently, I was asked to provide a personal reference for someone who was a member of my aikido club, as she had applied for a new job (as an IT Project Manager). When writing personal references, I try to relate my experience of the person in the personal setting to the work environment. For example:… Read more »