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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Let Us Discuss About The Job - Those are Not My Words

I'm sure there's a line that can be drawn between these perspectives about the job ad below:
  • being a snobby technical writing professional who demands any contact from recruiters to be good writing
  • being a non-snobby technical writing professional who accepts that non-writers struggle with writing, which is what created the void that I, as a technical writer, fill during my time at work.
It feels like the line is blurry when I see writing sins:
  1. Starts a sentence with "am" instead of "I am" jumped out and bit me.
  2. No space between "set!" and "This" in the third line.
  3. The last line ends with two periods [..] which means the writer either wanted to use an ellipsis [...] or accidentally typed two periods to end the sentence, which is a typo.
I'm not "dinging" the recruiter for having a cute kid as their profile picture, but I question why that is even a thing I've seen for a while. It's almost disturbing to think that you would want a picture of your child as your contact picture on a professional network. Is it appropriate on a network designed to promote connections between professionals? I answer, "No." Flat-out. Full-stop. That said, I understand having a cute kid as your profile picture on Facebook, but not on LinkedIn.


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