Re: [Framers] How do you identify an advanced Framemaker user?

[John Sgammato]

Tomorrow afternoon I will go over an exercise that I set up for a new hire.
My boss wants to be satisfied that he's competent with FM.
I have a doc with some standard and some "advanced" features like text
insets. At least a couple of images will fail because they are not in the
folder that he's getting. It's not a rigorous exam (mostly I want to see if
he keeps a cool head in the face of technical adversity) - but I expect to
learn how confident I can be that he'll either panic or find a way to
resolve whatever issues pop up, and know when to cal for help.


On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:31 PM, 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. Is there a test you employ? Do you ask them to build a template from
> scratch? Are there certifications that you require? Do you use a recruiting
> service? How would you locate qualified candidates (in addition to posting
> to Frameusers)?
>
> Note that I am NOT recruiting; that is still a few years down the road
> 8-). I just need to start thinking about the best way to replace myself. My
> long-time designated backup is also planning to retire in the next couple
> of years, so I have to start again to find the best person for my job. I am
> willing to train them how to do my job, but it requires their already being
> a master of Framemaker.
>
> Carol
>
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[Framers] How do you identify an advanced Framemaker user?

[Carol J. Elkins]

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. Is there a test you employ? Do you ask them to 
build a template from scratch? Are there certifications that you 
require? Do you use a recruiting service? How would you locate 
qualified candidates (in addition to posting to Frameusers)?


Note that I am NOT recruiting; that is still a few years down the 
road 8-). I just need to start thinking about the best way to replace 
myself. My long-time designated backup is also planning to retire in 
the next couple of years, so I have to start again to find the best 
person for my job. I am willing to train them how to do my job, but 
it requires their already being a master of Framemaker.


Carol

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Re: [Framers] FrameMaker/TCS 2015 Update 5 - which package? cumulative?

[Monique Semp]

   I installed all five updates in turn, and things seem fine.
   It was still rather a challenge to get the pods docked to the right
   side -- instead of drag-and-dock within the FrameMaker blank space, I
   needed to drag-and-dock inside the file-content window. Then I did the
   drag-and-dock of the files-pod to inside (on the left) the file-content
   window. And then finally was able to drag-and-dock the whole combined
   thing, and everything sizes/resizes as it did before (meaning, in my
   Windows 7 setup).
   Still haven't really exercised FrameMaker on the new Win10 setup, nor
   have I installed the many add-ins/plugins I rely on (FM2PDF,
   Pubs-Tools, CudSpan Doc Tools, PageLabeler, Book Utilities, Silicon
   Prairie tools, a bunch of Rick Quatro's utilities, and likely other
   things I'm not recalling at the moment), nor the many font packages
   I've used over time for a variety of clients.
   But at least the basics of FrameMaker 2015/TCS seem to be working on
   Win10. So a win :-).
   Thanks for the help,
   -Monique

   I"ll plan to get to this within a week or so (installing the updates in
   turn), and report back.
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