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Why No One Will Hire You: 40 Professionals Give Advice on Improving a Technical Writer’s Resume [Collaborative Post]

A reader asks, Is my resume so awful that no one will hire me? I mean, I’d been laid-off so long it’s pitiful really. His resume is here. I opened up this question up to my friends on Twitter and to those who follow my blog. About 40 professional technical writers responded with all kinds Continue Reading »

Quick Reference Guides: The Poetry of Technical Writing

How many times have you written a 75+ page guide and heard the customer say, This is great, but can you give us a condensed version? After the third or fourth time I’d heard this, I decided to actually try it. I wasn’t sure exactly how to lay it out, so I spent a couple Continue Reading »