How to Get a Job

Once again, I've chosen to join the JobMob annual guest blogging contest. To be honest, there's something that bothers me about it - as much as they want quality content, ultimately it is all about how much traffic you can drive to their site in a short period of time. So, I'm running an experiment - I want to prove quality and quantity count - so please help me out. The topic I chose was one that is…

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The Perfect Resume?

I'll start with two comments: There is no perfect resume. If there was a perfect resume, it would only be perfect for a moment in time or a specific job. Tomorrow it would no longer be perfect; it might not work nearly as well for any other job. We sent the perfect resume for the perfect job this week! We nailed it so perfectly! And we were aware, as we were doing it, that it was because the…

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Launching Your Career as a Technical Writer

You probably already know that WritePoint offers the most in-depth technical writing course available in Israel - 150 hours+ of real training in the tools technical writers need - RoboHelp, FrameMaker, Word, graphics and more. But what happens after you get trained?  How do you break into the technical writing market? WritePoint's Graduate Internship Program (WGIP) offers our graduates their first real experience in the hi-tech world, working on real documentation projects.  We provide an "in" to some…

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Some Job Hunting Tips

One of the things I enjoy doing at WritePoint is helping others find work. It's fun; it's exciting; and yes, it can be profitable. Another key word is satisfying. When we began our technical writing courses, more than 6 years ago, the goal was two-fold. We wanted to hire trained technical writers that could be counted on to document hardware and software and we wanted to raise the level of entry-level technical writers in general. Too often, we…

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