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1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  She’s currently working with XXXX, which is an automotive chip company, she manages all technical writings mostly for chip products, including user guide, instruction manuals, and also create contents for their digital marketing such as Linkedin, posts, articles, and others. In summary, she is in charge of all the technical documentations, promotional materials, translation of videos, for their automotive chip products; she’s a part of the in-house documentation team so she usually works with the company’s products and events. This is her first job after graduation, and she has a Master’s Degree in Chinese to English translation which is quite relevant to her job right now. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be expertise in making user documents more understandable and easier to read at by their target audience; she’s great in making promotional copies more appealing to regular users and customers as well. She uses tools like Doc As Code toolset for creating and writing the documents, including Git, markup languages, and sphinx; also uses Adobe tools mostly for editing images. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? She has over 3 years of experience in the technical writing field and is knowledgeable already with the standards and compliance part. The main product she has worked on are mostly hardware chips for automotive and would be comfortable working on engineering-related, machine, and consumer products in general. In terms of the tools, she has used Adobe Suite tools such as Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator; also familiar with XML documentation and is willing to learn more about it on a professional level. She can also speak basic French and can easily pick it up if needed for the job.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He is currently a Business Consultant/Senior Copywriter for XXXX, his own company, where they offer different services directed towards foreign companies looking to do business in China. Most of it are actual sourcing and procurement, as well as verification of facts on the ground; he also works with some Chinese companies for copywriting, marketing, and also writing with technical documents. He has worked mostly within the Shenzhen electronics industry, consumer products, but sometimes work with other sectors as well such as mining, fact verification, and due diligence. Before that, he also was doing sales, marketing, and business development where he reaches out to companies and see opportunities for collaboration; later on, he deployed himself as a consultant to build connections and see more business opportunities. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be within writing and business analysis as well; he has a facility for understanding new fields of business quickly, understanding the technical details, and analyse new markets fairly. On top of that, he uses his writing skills to develop engagement and connect with people as well. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has experience in both writing and copywriting; most of what he writes include blog posts, writing analysis, internal documents, and some technical writing as well. He also has great experience within the electronics and consumer products space in Shenzhen, has did bit of technical writing in his current role so he’s familiar with it.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  She is currently a technical writer for XXXX brand and she’s working on technical documentation for hardware such as devices for gamers (mouse, keyboards, monitors, etc.), and other products paired with software applications. Apart from that, she also prepares and support documentation for their products’ gift boxes, do quick start guides, manuals, how the device looks like (document for illustration), full information/user manual of the device on their website, and such; she also worked a little bit on the application side as well but most of her experience is within hardware devices. Before this, she was working with different companies such as XXXX as an Assistant and started as a Freelance Translator, mostly translating web-novels from Chinese to Russian. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be her problem-solving skills since there are lots of scenarios where she have to check and recheck the devices she works with, ask questions about it to different departments, and accumulate all information about the product itself to be able to provide a clear list and correct/accurate information about it to customers. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? She has over 2 years of technical writing now, mostly with consumer (gamer) products and devices, mainly the hardware part of it; would be comfortable working with consumer products and engineering-related products as well. She has worked with different documentations and materials such as quick start guides, manuals, box information, and such for those specific products. The main tool she uses in current work is mostly PDF reader to check documents and stuff, and Microsoft Word on a daily basis. Being in the technical writing field for more than 2 years, she has acquired a great knowledge of documentation standards, directives, and compliance as well.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree program at the XXXX, also did his ambassador degree at XXXX. He founded, and is currently the CEO for, XXXX where they mostly help students with their theses especially in computer science, help with the coding, and other different projects where they need help or assistance with. On top of that, he has experience with technical writing, software development, and programming since they also help students in those areas. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be skills in different tools including Microsoft Word, Excel, and others used in writing. Apart from that, he has good foundation with programming from university and also does this for some of their projects. He’s also good in spearheading a team on things they struggle with, basically leadership skills.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  She has been a technical writer for over 10 years, since she graduated from university. She has worked on the semiconductor industry and new energy industry, mostly for software products and documentation. Currently, she’s with XXXX as a Technical Writer where she mostly handles documentation for software and SoC products including user guides, API documentation, test methods, and such; all their documentations are organized in one online platform, both hardware and software, but she’s mainly focused on the software documentation part. Before this, she was a Content Designer for XXXX where she also did product manuals, user guides, and other type of documentations related to the software of their product which are equipment for power production, wind resource examination system, and such. She started her career as a Technical Communications Engineer where she maintained and developed documentations for different electronic products; she did manuals for new features or workflows, theoretical basis, functionality, and such. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be her deep knowledge of documentation convention which is different from normal writing, she also is familiar with the standard documentation rules. On top of that, she uses different documentation tools including Adobe Frame Maker, oXygen XML, and Microsoft Office Suite; she also uses the markdown method to write documentations. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? Has more than 10 years of experience in technical writing spanning from electronics, wind and energy, and semiconductor products. She is also confident to work on documentations for engineering, machines, and consumer products; her focus is more on the software side but she also has knowledge with writing for the hardware side of things. She’s knowledgeable with some Adobe tools, XML documentation, and Office tools for writing her materials. Apart from that, she’s familiar already with the standards and compliance as she has been doing this for more than a decade now.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  She has 2-3 years of experience in technical writing and is currently with XXXX where she’s mainly responsible for creating all the documents for their company products related to agricultural, machine control, and laser products. Her main work there is to maintain all the documents, use different tools to create new user guides for new products, work with engineer team and sales team to know the customer’s requirements, and product high quality documentation for their customers as well. She’s involved in creating technical documentations for both hardware and software part of their products in this company. Before this, she was with XXXX as a Technical Writer and was mainly responsible for creating documentations for the software part of their products such as user manuals, API document, FAQ document, and such. She was previously a Chinese and English teacher for two different school which also honed her skills in English. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be her communication skills with all kinds of people since she has worked with both local and international teams. In terms of technical writing, she’s proficient with different tools such as Adobe InDesign for writing and Illustrator for illustrations; she’s also good in using Photoshop. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? She has about 3 years of experience in technical writing, mostly focused in machineries, laser products, machine control systems, and previously with mobile and electronics. She is well-versed in working with machineries, control systems, engineering, and consumer products since these are mainly the products she has handled so far. Excellent knowledge and experience with Adobe Suite (InDesign, Illustrator) and XML documentation (Dita, Markdown) as well. Also knows of compliance and standards in technical writing.