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30 year old anecdote: Lo, many years ago, I was working for a small company as their one and only technical author. I decided to leave (something to do with a
by cstross 6y ago
30 year old anecdote:
Lo, many years ago, I was working for a small company as their one and only technical author. I decided to leave (something to do with a 50% pay rise to go work for a much larger company that wasn't obviously circling the drain and due to go bust within 3 months). I gave notice, and as my then-employer had no HR policy and no HR department (it was management by autocratic whim: one boss and about twelve technical staff) he asked me to hang around long enough to draft a job description and tidy up some loose ends.
So: job description for technical author duly drafted and sent to recruitment agencies. Whereupon we got CVs back by fax. Wildly inappropriate CVs.
I remember one perplexed phone call that I ended after the recruiter at the other end of the line said, "technical author, technical support engineer -- what's the difference?"
So yeah, watch the quality of your recruiters! (Whichever side of the table you're on.)