Articles on the Profession

Here are some online articles about technical communication as an occupation and as a career.

• Technical Writing: The Overlooked High-Tech Career. Article by Douglas J. Nakakihara in MicroTimes.

• Ivory Tower or Real World? Article published in Writer's Block (winter 1997-1998) by John Thurston, PhD, discussing his move from the "humanist milieu" into the world of technology, his abandonment of academia to become a technical writer.

• Business and Creative Hints for Successful Writing. Steven Oppenheimer's discussion of important issues for technical writers.

• Career City: Cutting Edge Careers. Information on technical communication as a career.

• STC Salary Survey. The Society for Technical Communication's annual salary survey.

• Writers and Editors. Article from the Occupational Handbook.

• From Technical Writing to Knowledge Engineering. "One Writer's Journey," an article by Elinor Knodel.

• Technical Writers In High Demand as Webmasters. Lead article by David F. Carr from Web Week, July 8, 1996, reprinted in Technically Wired, STC's Lone Star Chapter (as of December 1997).

• Technical Writing as a Career. An article by Garret Romaine, technical publications manager at RadiSys Corporation and current president of the Willamette Valley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.

Employment Opportunities for Professional Technical Communicators

The following are links to listings of employment opportunities for professional communicators as well as links to web-based employment services that list jobs for technical communicators:

• Masterpiece Media's Favorite Writing Links. A terrific list of links including information clearinghouses, employment possibilities, STC salary survey, networking ideas, telecommuting information, and more.

• STC Region & Chapter Pages. Websites for individual STC chapters provide excellent listings of employment opportunities and advice in their areas. This central STC site consolidates employment listings from the various STC chapters.

• Careers in Techcomm. From the Technical Communication program at Cal Poly, this site provides a good discussion of the wide variety of fields where technical commnicators work.

• Association for Women in Communications -- Job Connections. A very good listing of career and networking links.

• Technical Writing from The Mining Company. Lists technical writing jobs worldwide.

• The Monster Board. A web-based job bank.

• Technical Standards, Inc. Resume-posting, job-listing, and job-search facility offered by Technical Standards, Inc., a service exclusively for technical writers and documentation specialists.

• Tecnical Communication Companies. A big listing of technical-writing firms provided by Yahoo. Possibilities for employment!

• National Writers Union Job Hotline. You must be a member to use this service.

• Writer's Care. Provides online resume postings, online employment listings, and online writer resources. Maintained by a wonderful webmaster at Lucent Technologies.

• Telecommuting Job Opportunities for Writers. Wide range of writing jobs including technical writing.

• Tech Writer/Trainer Job Connection. Technical-writer job listings, job-service, and resume-posting service.

• CoreComm. Specialists in technical marketing and documentation services outsourced to other firms.

• Masterpiece Media: Technical Writers to the Rescue!. Job and resume postings maintained by Nina Panzica of the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.

• Society for Documentation Professionals & The Mining Company. For a membership fee, this organization offers articles on the profession, job leads, contacts with employers, technology tips, and more.

• Software Documentation, Training and Technical Writing. King ComputerSearch, specializing in technical recruiting, executive search and contract services.

• Technical Writing Jobs in the Pacific Northwest. Technical writing jobs in Washington, Oregon, Idaho.

• Digital Station. Guide to computer and Internet jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. See Creative Jobs Board for positions "for all you writers, artists, animators, designers, project managers, and editors."

• The WorkSite.Com. Search on technical writing jobs.

• The Write Jobs. Technical writing job listings from The Write Jobs.

• ABA - Technical Writing Jobs . From ABA Staffing, Inc.

• Jobs at Javasoft. Technical writing jobs at Javasoft!

• Excite's Careers & Education. An enormous listing of job-search databases, career-building information, as well as a job search mechanism -- from Excite. Search on technical writer.

Note: The preceding links are by no means complete and do not represent endorsements of the organizations listed or their products or services. To recommend additions or changes, contact David A. McMurrey.

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