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In article <cirino-1010940950430001@gasupport1.island.com>,
cirino@island.com (Mark Alan Cirino) wrote:

< I found 3 that showed the writers were capable of
< creating a decent document. Amazing, huh?

Heh. I hired my replacement at a company when I moved out of techwriting
and manual design (bleah) into the marketing dept. as art director. Out of
500+ resumes I received, about 25 had direct experience and the rest were
just fishing, e.g. "I think I'd be a good techical writer because bla bla
bla..." Since this wasn't a big company they weren't paying defense
contractor salaries and some of these people had been out of work for
months, but still refused to accept a salary of about $26K. So I hired a
young guy just out of college who had essentially no experience, but who
impressed me mightily as a fast learner and someone eager to take on the
job.

So, don't overlook younger people just because they cannot start cranking
stuff out immediately. It took about two weeks to get him trained on the
equipment and from then on he did fine work. Unfortunately, you have to be
a *very* good judge of character for this to work.

On the flip side, I've also interviewed designer candidates from two
hoity-toity art schools, and none of em could care less about the nuts and
bolts of design and production, thinking that once they were done creating
a masterpiece, some underling would handle the dirty work. Bzzt. Wrong. 

I agree, though, that good graphic designers are hard to find. You must
weed out a lot of amateurs to find quality. You should also offer
non-insulting wages as well (anyone remember the DTP
Wizard/God/Goddess/Genius wanted for cheap thread a few months back?).

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