Good luck! I believe your best bet would be to find an American tech writer
living in Pune, or hire someone in Boston. Plenty of companies parse out tech
writing jobs to off-site writers. If you're concerned about quality, imo, your
US-based team needs to do at least a copy edit!
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:05 AM, John Sgammato
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi gang, I have to hire a writer in Pune, India, but I wonder if I have
unrealistic expectations. We have a pretty sophisticated doc system in
unstructured FrameMaker 12, using variables, conditional text, text insets,
etc. We need API content as well as content for network administrators and
managed-service providers, SaaS, and business resiliency. Knowledge of data
storage would be good.The person will work independently, far from the home
team in Boston. The development team in Pune is a good team, but they do all
the things that aggravate writers, making last-minute changes and expecting "a
quick search-and-replace", not reviewing docs, etc. The person has to be able
to essentially finish and publish the doc to US standards. My team does not
have the time to edit the work from India. The writer must know the proper use
of articles and placement of commas.
So I am looking for a veteran with good grammar and 10+ years of experience
using all the parts of unstructured FM and with real-life experience pushing
back on a team. I can say all sorts of empowering things from Boston, but if
the writer doesn't feel it in his/her heart, doesn't have the courage and the
chutzpah to stand up to the team to ensure doc quality, then I have the wrong
person and I get stuck with poor-quality documentation.
Am I looking for a chimera? There are plenty of writers like that in the Boston
area, but I need one in Pune. I suspect that TechComm has been a career in
Boston a lot longer than it has in Pune...does anyone there even have ten years
of experience?--
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Radically simple copy data management .
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