At 10:31 -0600 15/4/18, Carol J. Elkins wrote: >Over the next couple of years, I need to help my major client find and train >an in-house replacement for me as I wind down my freelance practice. They will >not consider an independent contractor next time, so it may be harder to >recruit and identify someone with the required skills. I've built 20 years of >documentation for this client in unstructured Framemaker, and managing these >thousands of documents and books depends less on someone being a good >technical writer than being an excellent Framemaker user. > >For those of you who are corporate employers, I'd like to know how you screen >candidates to identify those who truly are advanced Framemaker users.
I write here as a recipient of such a test, so apols because I'm not a corporate recruiter/test administerer. It was for a contract with a well-known London-based financial business, many years ago. The test consisted of a number of unstructured FrameMaker tasks of increasing difficulty, done against the clock. At that time I considered myself to be an advanced FrameMaker user, but wasn't ;-) Nevertheless, I completed all the items in the test, which took about thirty minutes, successfully. I'm afraid I cannot remember now what the tasks were, but I'm sure you could easily make your own up. At the end I was told that I'd done the test in the shortest time ever. Didn't get the contract, though, as another guy did almost as well and didn't have to commute/work remotely :-( To build on what Robert suggested, how about asking candidates to build a folksy template from scratch, and devilishly include a couple of things that you cannot do with FrameMaker (there must still be some)? That way you get a good idea of their competence *and* incorporate the performance under stress and key-marks in the forehead stuff. And if that works out, then ask them how they'd adapt it for multi-platform delivery ;-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
