Technical Writer Hiring Rubric
Here's a quick infographic that will help you rate your potential technical writer candidates and select the most suitable for your organization.
Why use this technical writer hiring rubric?
Doing multiple paid trials with the technical writer candidates will unnecessarily increase your recruitment budget. It is not easy to find a professional who is technically experienced and has great business writing capabilities.
To ensure you make the right choice between candidates - this hiring rubric used at Merrative is useful to grade them to make a final choice.
Need help with hiring a technical writer?
At Merrative, we help technology brands form technical content teams with our 150+ highly vetted technical writers for blogs, reports, and newsletters.
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About Merrative
At Merrative, we aim to build a collective of writers, analysts, scholars, and journalists to create and discuss thought-provoking content.
We aim to create a one-stop place to access human expertise to publish thought leadership content — starting with newsletters.
Based on your content strategy, we can help you publish below 4 types of newsletter formats:
- Case Studies Newsletter – Breaks down real wins and success stories to demonstrate authority.
- Data Stories Newsletter – Turns industry data and trends into clear, actionable insights.
- Industry Expert Interview Newsletter – Extracts frameworks and lessons from expert conversations.
- Content Curation Newsletter – Curates the most important ideas with takeaways and links so readers don’t have to.
Check our portfolio newsletters for samples
We can pull this off, because we ourselves run a portfolio of newsletters for these formats:
Media First Brand:
Type: Case Studies Newsletter shared twice a month
Join 1400+ content marketers and founders learning from our content strategy case studies and content asset examples across the internet.
AppliedAI Trends:
Type: Data Stories and Trend Analysis Newsletter shared twice a month
Get one-pager AI trends intelligence reports on AI-impacted jobs roles, AI tools adoption trends, AI-first business ideas materialized, and noteworthy benchmarks.
Founder Leverage:
Type: Industry Expert Interview Newsletter shared once a month
Monthly briefs on how capital, ownership, and structure quietly shape business outcomes.
ReadTreats:
Type: Content Curation Newsletter shared every week
Join 6000+ readers receiving books, articles, films, videos, podcasts, and anime recommendations based on theme of the week
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We can build end-to-end newsletter system based on original data and insights that get recommended by your target audience.
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