Certification as Skills Assessment
Posted on Sunday, January 4th, 2004
Brainbench – The Measure of Achievement
I’ve been dropping in on the Usenet mirror of TECHWR-L every so often just to see what dramas are unfolding. I noticed today that someone’s asking, again, how to test [...]
The Ultimate Certification Laundry List
Posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2003
CompTIA Tech Career Compass – Technical Writer
Found this on the CompTIA site while perusing A+ certification details.
CompTIA has what they call their Tech Career Compass that gives a basic description of jobs that can [...]
Rolling Your Own Certification, Take 2
Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2003
After almost 3 weeks of inactivity on the TW-Cert discussion group that splintered off from a recent (in astronomical time) TECHWR-L discussion, I’ve had a bit of a re-think about certification and its relevancy to [...]
continue readingThrowing the Bones to Certification
Posted on Monday, June 16th, 2003
WARNING: This is just me talking out of my TW-A$$ on a Monday. Read on or click elsewhere as appropriate. — Ed.
UPDATE 6/18/2003: Darren Barefoot rather politely pointed out that I’d forgotten to include [...]
The Shape of TechComm Standards
Posted on Wednesday, June 4th, 2003
ISTC: National Occupational Standards
The perennially hot topic of “tech writer standards” should cool off a bit when more tech writers read this document. Granted, it concerns standards for technical communicators in the UK, and it’s [...]