This is a guest post by Thomas Curnyn, a technical writer in Dublin, Ireland. He currently works for a software company specializing in school administration and scheduling software. He’s been at his job for the last 5 years and has been a writer for 10 years altogether. Tom wrote quite a while back about writing tests (10 Alternate Tests for Evaluating Technical Writing Job Candidates … more »

I received an email the other day from a hiring manager who asked me what tests they should give to their technical writing candidates. She writes, We are hiring two new technical writers and are trying to come up with a practical for the candidates to complete. We had been asking the applicants to write a quick how to (e.g make a pb&j, withdraw cash … more »