Selecting the right Technical Author to recruit for your organisation

It’s been a while since we added an article to our Web site (these days we tend to post content to this blog), but we’ve just written one called Selecting the right Technical Author to recruit for your organisation. The role of the technical author (also known as Technical Writer or Information Developer) is one… Read more »

Technical Author jobs – latest vacancies

We’re still looking for candidates for these Technical Author vacancies: #4092 Documentation Team Leader, Antwerp, €45K-€50K #4088 Jnr Technical Author / Technical Author, London #4087 Jnr Technical Author / Technical Author, London SW4 #4086 Contract Senior Technical Author, 8 months, €32/hour Near Amsterdam #4085 Technical Author, Lancashire £28K

Software Tester and Technical Author – should the two roles ever be put together?

We’ve a client looking to recruit a Technical Writer/Software Tester, which they are having difficulties filling (see #4084 Technical Author/Software Tester, Surrey, £25K-£35K) As part of the process of promoting this vacancy, we posed the following questions in a forum on LinkedIn for testers (Software Testing & Quality Assurance) and in a forum for Technical… Read more »

Assessing a candidate Technical Author

We’re a month into our trial of assessing candidate CVs using a points system, so it’s an appropriate moment to look at its progress and how candidate Technical Authors are assessed in general. On our scoring system, the difference between the Technical Author CVs we’ve received recently has been within 10%, with a few outliers outside of… Read more »