Thursday 29th of July 2010

logo

Home

Technical Communications May Be the Career You've Been Looking For!

In today's world, tied together by the internet, communication has become the key to marketing hi-tech products and services around the globe.  That means that hi-tech companies need to produce a lot of easy-to-read, interesting, and informative documents. What type of documents? Here are some examples:
  • User's manuals for software, hardware, data communication systems, and medical devices.
  • Marketing literature for brochures, websites, press releases, technical papers, etc.
  • Tutorials and training guides
  • Sales and Marketing Presentations
  • Technical overviews, specifications, and data sheets
What all this means is that these companies need people to write and produce this material. And companies will pay well for the service. That's because writers who can do this are not easy to find - besides writing clearly and accurately, they also have to know a lot of other things - here are a few:
  • How to collect information, conduct interviews, and correctly evaluate the information.
  • How to integrate the information into an organized document that achieves certain aims - whether a manual, brochure, or other document.
  • How to write descriptions and instructions in the required style.
  • How to take complex information and simplify it so that it can be understood by a wide audience.
  • How to properly understand what needs to be written about a product.
  • How to write content for marketing documents and websites.
  • How to format the content using desktop publishing tools.
  • How to produce hard copy manuals, online Help, PowerPoint presentations, and other formats.
As if that were not enough, the writer also needs to have some idea of how computers work, how software programs are written, and how data communication systems operate.

OK, who are these writers? Where do we find these geniuses?

Look in the mirror...

You May Be the Writer that Companies Have Been Waiting For...

I started the YEDA Center for Technical Communications back in 1993 - near the dawn of Israel's hi-tech revolution. At that time, the sudden growth in hi-tech companies had led to a severe shortage in technical communicators - a technical writer in those days began at a much higher salary than even a programmer. Why the big demand? There simply were very few technical communicators in the country and there was no place to learn the profession. In fact, companies were only then learning what a technical communicator was, or why they needed one.

Where did Israel's first generation of technical writers come from? From YEDA, that's where. From an initial 12 women who signed up for the first course, to classes of up to 50 students, Israel's technical writers came from curious English speaking immigrants from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zea land, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and other countries from around the world. They came from all walks of life: English Teachers, Secretaries, Programmers, Engineers, Sales people, Business people, Translators, Accountants, Lawyers, Office Managers, and Kindergarten teachers. Some were housewives who had never worked outside the home - others had been unemployed for long periods since coming to Israel. All had two things in common: a solid ability to express themselves in English writing - and the willingness to try something new, something outside their former profession.

Since then, YEDA's students have included people from around the globe - students work in the U.S., England, Ireland, Canada, Finland, Norway, India, Nigeria, and other countries. Technical Communications is truly a global profession - once you master it, you can work in just about any country that produces hi-tech products.

YEDA's expertise is to take people with no hi-tech background and to turn them into writers who can successfully manage and produce the documents that companies need to deliver to their clients.
 

Powered by Joomla!. Designed by: Free Joomla Template, .me domain hosting. Valid XHTML and CSS.

 

More on: baseurl and templates
Content moved by FREE Go FTP