Selected Readings for Job Hunters

Here’s an assortment of articles that might be useful to any of us who are job-hunting. Read and enjoy! (…)

Choosing To Be Optimistic:  Downsized, But Not Out

For Marge, job loss in the current economic downturn is deja vu all over again. (…)

Looking for an Internship…Pretty Hopeful Still

Kristen wasn’t looking for easy when she signed up for a double major in Technical and Professional Communication and English Literature at Cedarville University. (…)

Cookies, Kids, and Technical Communication
by Jean Fudge
Tech Fest is a program dedicated to introducing kids to science, technology, engineering, medicine and math (STEM). (…)

Strategies for Success is the theme for SWO’s 2008-2009 programs. (…)

Join the January Job Progression
Does your organization hire technical writers, illustrators, instructional designers, and publication managers? (…)

Since 2004, Employment Lead Louise Tincher has been the guiding force behind the chapter’s employment-related resources:

A Yahoo job site where relevant Web-posted job offers are conveniently aggregated
A chapter bulletin board with employer postings of currently available technical communication jobs and a section where members can post resumes

According to Louise, "The biggest thing I do is gather job ads from the Internet. (…)

by Elizabeth Evans Fryer and Judith Harper
Almost all technical writing benefits from the technique of persuasion. (…)

"Interview Survival Secrets from the Mock Interview Squad," originally published in the January-February 2005 issue of Between the Lines, is reprinted here in three parts. (…)

"Interview Survival Secrets from the Mock Interview Squad," originally published in the January-February 2005 issue of Between the Lines, is reprinted here in three parts. (…)