Question: Have you ever had to write technical material for lay people? Please give me an example of this.

Alternative Question Phrasing:

Follow-up questions:

How do you ensure that your audience will understand what you’ve written?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Knowledge/Skill Based

Skills:

Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment),Basic – Writing,Social – Social Perceptiveness

Abilities:

Cognitive – Category Flexibility (Mental Flexibility),Cognitive – Written Expression

Other Factors:

Direct Job Experience,Personality-Job Fit

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events,Mental Processes – Judging the Value of Things, Services, or People

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation)

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The candidate’s flexibility to target audiences.

Red Flags to Watch For:

The candidate’s lack of flexibility when it comes to target audiences.

Sample Answer:

Yes, I have written a user manual for a product we are selling. In writing for lay people, it is good to assume that they have zero knowledge so you need to be very specific in writing for them.

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