Hyperviews Online

This is a new listing for 2006 of online resources for employment and business development, incorporating the information published in 2005 on the old website of the Online SIG. Included are Employment information from STC; Online job listing URLs; Maximing use of online resumes; Social networking; Career resources online; Cost and value: online tools.

Employment information from STC

STC provides employment information for members. Visit http://www.stc.org and click the link for the Career Center.

Online job listings

http://careerbuilders.com/

http://www.developers.net/careers

http://www.dice.com/ (aggregator)

http://www.indeed.com/ (aggregator)

http://www.justtechwriterjobs.com/JSHome.asp

http://www.monster.com/

Maximizing use of online resumes

Jeff Staples’s review of eResumes: Everything You Need to Know About Using Electronic Resumes to Tap into Today’s Hot Job Market by Susan Britton Whitcomb & Pat Kendall (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 0071363998. $11.95) appears in the July/August 2005 issue of The Nor’easter newsletter of the Northern New England Chapter of STC.

Social networking

Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/) is social networking site for business. STC members report having found contract leads using Linked In. Success for a particular user depends on that user’s network.

Career resources online

Rita Garcia, 2005-2006 First Vice President of the Inland Empire chapter of STC, provided a list of websites you can visit to learn about technical communication and careers in the field in the Inland Empire STC Ruff Draft newsletter, March 2005. The list follows, with additions by the Online SIG.

Society for Technical Communication http://www.stc.org

STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. It is the largest organization of its type in the world. Its members include technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, Web designers and developers, and translators—anyone whose work makes technical information available to those who need it. I (Rita) recommend this site because STC is the largest organization for technical communicators. It is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of technical communication.

America’s Career InfoNet http://www.acinet.org/

This site is part of CareerOneStop, a partner with the US Department of Labor. Together they provide electronic tools for job seekers, employers and the public workforce community. You can find wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor markets, and more.

The occupational profile for technical writers is posted at http://www.acinet.org/acinet/occ_rep.asp?.

Occupational Information Network http://online.onetcenter.org/

The Occupational Information Network and O*NET OnLine were developed for the US Department of Labor by the National O*NET Consortium. The profile for technical writers is posted at http://online.onetcenter.org/link/summary/27-3042.00.

Acronym Finder
http://online.onetcenter.org/link/summary/27-3042.00

This site is the perfect place to find out what all those acronyms mean in the technical communication field and the world in general. Acronym search results are listed with the most common meanings in boldface at the top of the list.

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/sitemap

OWL has been serving the Purdue University community and the rest of the world over the Internet since 1993. I was introduced to this website through the technical writing on-line courses I was taking at the University of California at Riverside. OWL has extensive material on grammar, punctuation, and spelling, professional writing, research and documenting sources, general writing concerns, and the list goes on. Anyone who wants to brush up on his or her writing skills will find this site invaluable.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/websites.jhtml?t=career_effectiveness. This site has links to many career resources. Posted September 2005.

Costs and value: online tools

Calculator that shows some of the differences to be expected in cost of living in different areas: http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

The Design Council (UK) makes available the Value of Design Factfinder, showing rationales for investing in design activities in business:
http://www.designfactfinder.co.uk

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