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Survey analyzing skill requirements in job postings

by Tom Johnson on Sep 12, 2015 •
categories: technical-writing

A grad student in tech comm needs your response to a short survey that examines responses to skill requirements in job postings. You can post your responses in comments.

A couple of weeks ago, in a podcast with Lisa Meloncon, I talked about ways to help bridge the gap between academics and practitioners. One way practitioners can help academics is by responding to surveys so that academics can gather the research information they need.

Rebecca Pope is a graduate student at the University of North Texas in Technical Communication. She needs to interview technical editors and writers for a research project in her Digital Literacies course, where she is analyzing responses to skill requirements in job postings. The interview is 7 questions and takes about 5 minutes to answer.

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Here are the questions:

  1. What is your current job title?
  2. What are your most used tools? (Ex: Office, Adobe, etc.)
  3. What is your definition of digital literacy and how does it relate to your job?
  4. What is the most important technical skill you possess?
  5. How valuable is being able to teach yourself new technical skills?
  6. What technical skill do you most want to learn or expand on to better help you in your job?
  7. What technical skill were you surprised to find is necessary to your job?

If you’d like to participate in the survey, please copy the 7 questions above and respond in the comments below. I posted my responses in the comments already.

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Tom Johnson

I'm a technical writer / API doc specialist based in the Seattle area. In this blog, I write about topics related to technical writing and communication — such as software documentation, API documentation, visual communication, information architecture, writing techniques, plain language, tech comm careers, and more. Check out my API documentation if you're looking for more info about that. If you're a technical writer and want to keep on top of the latest trends in the field, be sure to subscribe to email updates. You can also learn more about me or contact me. Finally, note that the opinions I express on my blog are my own points of view, not that of my employer.

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