Interview time: Who is a technical writer: a developer or a scribe?

Recently, I have been conducting research on the topic: who is a technical writer from the perspective of employers and jobseekers.

The general impression is that employers either do not know that a technical writer is not a software (code) developer, or they believe that a technical writer is just a scribe, a hand with a pen (and a keyboard). Many companies copy each other's job requirements (sometimes quite relevant), but at the same time they offer exactly this — either writing scripts, parts of code, doing DevOps… or being that very hand with a pen. 

The talk will consider: 

• The formation of requirements for technical writers (drawing on my own experience),
  
• The technical writer's view of the employer,
• What lies behind the grades,
• What happens after “and they lived happily ever after – they got the job!”,
• And how things are going with the popularisation of the technical writing profession.